Tools: Screencasting

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Screencasting

What is Screencasting?

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

How do you create a Screencast?

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

Demonstration of creating a screencast

  • 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