Screencasting

Want to share what is on your computer with your students? Have complex processes or software where demonstrating these to students would be helpful? Want to add audio, video, and the use of other applications to your Powerpoint presentation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then screencasting will be useful to you. Screencasting is, in short, capturing your computer’s screen and any other inputs such as audio from a microphone or video from a webcam. Screencasts can then be produced in a file format that can be hosted online or in Angel. We’ll review free screencasting software such as Jing and for purchase software packages such as Camtasia that are available on campus. Also, best practices and uses of screencasts will be discussed.