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, to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
      • 5) Edit your presentation (optional), 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)

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 (8 minutes 30 seconds) and display it on Sakai using Lessons Multimedia button

  • Check out this video 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 not 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