Podcasts & Screencasts

Podcasting, Screencasts, & Video Conferencing

Tools for making your own Podcasts & Screencasts

• Adobe Spark: Images, videos, and more!
• Screencast-o-matic: Capture your screen and voice, save the file and then upload to your hosting site
• Screencastify: A Google/Chrome only application for free 10 minute screencast. See pricing for additional features
• TwistedWave
• Audacity Create podcast
• Google Voice Audio messaging
• Creating images that can talk! Blabberize and Fotobabble
• Voki: Animate the inanimate
• Tellagami: Animate the inanimate
• Toontastic: Animate the inanimate, find in the App Store or Google Play
• Scratch: Create and share your own interactive stories games, music and art.
• Jing:Create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them instantly!
• Vimeo: Video hosing and sharing.
• YouTube (video hosting, almost its own social network) and editing. Is YouTube blocked in your school? Try YouTube for Schools: But if YouTube is blocked, consider downloading the video.
• Tips and sites for creating your own podcast

Free Webinar Tools for Video conferencing

• Skype:You can share a group call with up to 25 people (24 plus yourself) including your friends and family on Android and iOS, anywhere in the world, and if everyone's on Skype, it's completely free. If you're calling people who are on a mobile or landline, you'll need a little Skype Credit or a subscription.
• Zoom: 1 to 1 free meetings, 40 minutes per meeting
• JoinMe: 10 meeting participants, 5 video feeds, screen sharing, internet calling (free, paid plans available)

Some exemplary examples of screencasts and animation

• Salman Khan academyvideos on YouTube
• Common Craft videos (like wikis in plain english and so forth)
• RSA Animate videos on YouTube there are several videos in the playlist
• Powers of Tenvideo and related resources
• University of Utah: Amazing Cells
• Video camera - flip video cameras are very small and relatively affordable. Watch this presentation to learn more about how use flip cameras with your students
• Webcam (most laptops/netbooks have one built-in now). Microphone (needed to narrate your screencast). Your video camera or webcam already has a microphone built-in. But if you want higher quality audio though, try a USB microphone.