Difference between revisions of "Tools: Screencasting"

Revision as of 14:35, 25 October 2013

Watch this short video (2 minutes, 10 seconds) from Brutus Partners to discover:
- What is Screencasting?
- What are some samples of a Screencast? (From: YouTube, Vimeo, Khan Academy)
- Why are Screencasts useful?

Watch this video (8 minutes, 31 seconds) from Brutus Partners to find out:
- What are the eight steps to create a Screencast and why are they important?
  - 1) Gather content, 2) check your microphone, 3) use a free screen capture tool (Jing) to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
  - 4) Edit your presentation (optional), 5) upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation (screencast.com, Sakai, YouTube)
  - 6) Set access options, give students access to your presentation

Watch this video (11 minutes, 15 seconds)to see a screencasting creation demo
- Note: Before recording your presentation, create a PowerPoint with your content (or a Word document or PDF)
- You'll see a demonstration of using Jing, a free screencasting tool, to record a PowerPoint presentation
- You'll see how a Jing screencast can be uploaded to screencast.com to store your screencast (free with Jing)
- You'll see how a screencast can be displayed in Sakai, using the Sakai Text Editor

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 * Watch this [http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1587624 video] (8 minutes, 31 seconds) from Brutus Partners to find out:
-** What are the '''eight steps''' to create a Screencast?
+** What are the '''eight steps''' to create a Screencast and why are they important?
 *** 1) Gather content, 2) check your microphone, 3) use a free screen capture tool ([http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html Jing]) to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
 *** 4) Edit your presentation (optional), 5) upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation ([http://screencast.com screencast.com], Sakai, [http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube])