Screencasting

1. Screenr: This screencaster allows you to capture images from your desktop, select the location and size of the capture, and record your voice over the action on your screen. A pause button allows you to take a break. Login through Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, Linkedin, or Windows Live ID, and you are ready to record and instantly publish on your platform of choice. Of course, you can also embed elsewhere. You are limited to 5 minutes of recording.

2. Screencast-o-Matic: records screen actions within the chosen dotted border. After the count-down, you may record and then publish to the Screencast-o-matic site, to YouTube, or to a video file. The free application limits you to a 15-minute presentation. Here is Andrew Steinman’s Flipped Classroom tutorial description of the the tool for the Kent ISD. Registration is not essential unless you choose to save to the Screencast-o-matic site. If you are registered you can add notes and captions–a lovely feature for distant or flipped instruction! A Pro-account offers sophisticated editing functions.

3. Jing: The free version of Jing requires a download (for Windows or Mac). Using the docked sun tool, users may record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video and instantly share using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or Screencast.com (Jing’s storage area which allows 2 gigs of space). You can mark up screenshots with text boxes, arrows, highlighting, or captions. Jing is also a handy tool for capturing screen images.

This is by no means an exhaustive list.

And, I realize that PowerPoint and other presentation programs allow for recording of narration and saving as video files.