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Screencasting
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Do you ever take still screenshots or record videos of your
computer screen? This can be helpful for providing visuals to accompany
directions related to any number of activities: a new computer program students
have to use, resources they need to access online, or a complicated file upload
procedure they need to follow.
For basic screencasting, we like Jing. Jing is also free, so that's a huge
plus. Additionally, there are some very informative tutorials on the Jing website. Jing makes
sharing pretty easy, so embedding or linking the files within your course shell
is possible.
Before you start recording with Jing, you'll select the area of
your screen you'd like to record (you can either record your entire screen or a
just a portion thereof). Depending on what you do with this recording
afterwards, you may end up changing the final display size of your recording.
This is a handy tip about creating and
maintaining optimum recording sizes - this seems especially
helpful if you're switching between several programs or windows during your
recording.
For most purposes, Jing will be fine. However, if you're looking
to record a screencast longer than five minutes or do some advanced editing,
you may be interested in (or already using) Snagit. Snagit, alas, is not free.
However, I recently ran across information about Greenshot, a free alternative to Snagit.
Jing and Snagit are nicely integrated with screencast.com, which makes sharing
easy; I'm not exactly sure how easy it is to share your Greenshot recording or
how many sharing options are available. If you're needing to record an
occasional longer screencast and thus can't justify buying software to do it,
Greenshot might be a good alternative for you.
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