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Screencasts Tools- iShowU: ($20 - $60) Need to show something to someone? iShowU is your answer! iShowU is designed to record anything on your screen, instantly — both audio, and video!
- Jing: (Free) The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
- Screencast-O-Matic: (Free) Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install! (Demo)
- Screenflick: ($20) An excellent utility for software screencasters and software trainers, Screenflick offers the ability to display keyboard commands, and highlights mouse clicks to better communicate which actions are being performed during screen recording.
- Screenflow: ($99) Using a unique new screen capture system, powerful enough to capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio, you'll be creating incredible screencasts in no time.
- SnapzProX: ($69)Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be emailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want.
Training Subscriptions- Atomic Learning: Online narrated QuickTime screen movie software training and tutorials for school, home, and business. Tutorials on all major applications.
- Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman's site on web design training, books, videos and tips. lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.
- TeachMac: TeachMac and TeachIT are free applications that help you learn just what you need and easily share what you learn. Nearly half of our tutorials are free
Helping Tools- Audacity: A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X , and other operating systems.
- GE Imagination Cubed: Share ideas by drawing on GE's multi-user online whiteboard.
- iDVD: Quickly create a Hollywood-style disc with iDVD, using Apple-designed animated themes to give your DVD a gorgeous style from main screen to chapter selection.
- iMovie: iMovie ’08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. iMovie is built for sharing. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.
- iSquint: iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er.
- Keynote: Amaze your audience with cinema-quality presentations that are easier than ever to create. Use the new features in Keynote ’08 — the latest version of Apple’s powerful presentation software — to tell your story effectively and dramatically.
- Media-Convert: Media- Convert is a web based tool that will convert files from one format to another. The lists of files it can handle is impressive.
- Mouseposé: Mouseposé 3 is an essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audience‘s attention to an area of interest.
- NotLab: Using NoteLab is just like writing with a pen on real paper. However with NoteLab, the pen and paper are electronic, you never run out of ink
- Phun Physics: Phun is a fantastic toy for children, where they can learn and appreciate physics, science and simulations in an open ended gameplay with rich creative and artistic freedom, including colorful freehand drawing.
- PowerPoint: This application features Office 2008 for Mac’s redesigned user interface with the Elements Gallery, which allows users to quickly access PowerPoint tools and features in an intuitive, visually appealing and simple way
- QuickTimePro: QuickTime Pro allows you to easily prepare your content for distribution on the Internet. Use Export for Web from the File menu to create versions of your movie optimized for web-delivery to iPhone and the desktop in one easy step.
- Sorenson Squeeze: Sorenson Squeeze 5 is the industry-leading video encoding tool, enabling users to efficiently re-purpose video content for web, CD or DVD applications.
- Stomp: Stomp started its life as an idea to be the ultimate video recompressor, and ended up something so much more powerful than that.
- Tux Paint: Free download offered for interactive paint program designed for children three years and up.
- Visuhub: VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac.
Web Hosting Services- Blip Tv: blip.tv is the world's leading videoblogging and podcasting service.
- EdVoiceThread: A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
- PodOMatic: PodOmatic’s video podcasting support provides an easy and free method for users to create videocasts directly on the company’s website, without having to download any software or understand complicated audio/video mixing techniques. All that is required is a PC or Mac, webcam and microphone to create a videocast.
- Screencast.com: Screencast.com is an easy and affordable media hosting solution for business and academic professionals who want to share multimedia content on the Web.
- SchoolTube: SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations.
- TeacherTube: The goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos
- YouTube: Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.
Making Your Own Portal- Blogger: A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE.
- Google Sites: Thinking of creating a website? Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages.
- PB Wiki: PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit and share information. It's as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.
- Wikispaces: Create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. Signing up and creating your own wiki space is fast, free, and easy.
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