Tools: Screencasting
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Screencasting
What is Screencasting?
- Check out 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?
How do you create a Screencast?
- In this video (8 minutes, 31 seconds) from Brutus Partners, you'll find out:
- What are the eight steps to create a Screencast and why are they important?
- 1) Gather content, 2) check your microphone, 3) get ready to perform your presentation using a microphone/computer device
- 4) Use a free screen capture tool, such as Jing, or pay for a tool such as SnagIt or Camtasia, to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
- 5) Edit your presentation (optional, available with Camtasia), 6) upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation (screencast.com, Sakai, YouTube)
- 7) Set access options, and 8) give students access to your presentation (on Sakai, for example)
- What are the eight steps to create a Screencast and why are they important?
Demonstration of creating a screencast using Jing (free tool) and display it on Sakai using the Text Editor
- 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
Demonstration of creating a screencast using Camtasia and display it on Sakai using Lessons Multimedia button
- Check out this video (8 minutes 30 seconds) to see a screencasting creation demo:
- Again, you'll need to create and display a PowerPoint or Word Document or PDF
- You'll see a demonstration of using Camtasia, a non-free screencasting tool, to record a presentation and edit it
- You'll see how to upload your Camtasia screen cast to YouTube
- You'll see how easy it is to display your screencast in Sakai, using the Lessons Multimedia button
- For YouTube videos, you don't need to use embed codes, only the web address, to display the video in Lessons
