Screencast

Screencasts

Screencasts are great ways to connect with students at any age or at anytime.  You can create almost any kind of video that students can access anytime day or night. For this post, I used two sites, Screencast-O-matic and Jing. I looked at a third website but it was retired.

Screencast-O-Matic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/)

Destiny Quest

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Screen-O-Matic was not easy to use I had to change browsers than download java. Which I could not do at school because only technology technicians can do this at my school.  There will be no way of using this with my students at my school.   Registration is typical for web applications in that you use your email and create a password for your account.  A free account allows you only a 15 minute screen cast.  You can opt to use your webcam, publish to YouTube.  If you want more editing features, then you opt to purchase a Pro account that costs $15 per year.

Recording, you click "Start Recording" and you set the screen outline to record. Once you are done, you can hit to the stop button and then review your screencast.  You will be able publish the video to YouTube, publish to screencast-o-matic, or download your video.

I will not be using Screen-o-matic because it will not work well at my school.


Screenr (https://www.screenr.com/)

I tried Screer but could not use it because of it's retirement this month.

Jing (https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html)

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Please click  below!

http://screencast.com/t/bsE0EsH5

I tried and tried and Jing will not upload or open in my blog!  So this to me would only frustrate the students like it has me!

Jing allows you to capture images and videos on your computer screen and share them via the web.  Jing is no registration is required and is a free download.  I used Chrome as my internet browser and I was able to easily install Jing and launch.

Once I launched Jing, the symbol appeared on the top of my screen.  I selected "Capture" and then selected what part of my screen I wanted to use.  You have two options at this point: to capture an image or video.  I chose video.  After a three second countdown, my recording began.  Once I was finished, I clicked stop, I recorded with ease and I was able to review my video. I could saved but not sure why it saved as a PDF file, every time I save is saved as a PDF file. I tried everything possible to switch it to a jpeg. It started up loading but stops in the middle.  I recorded again and the same thing happens.  Like I said this problem has frustrated me so I know it will frustrate my students.


Which will I use?

I think I might use both applications and it depends on the project I am doing.  I have never used either one of these programs but if I had to choose I would choose Screen-o-matic.  I think Screen-o-matic is easy to use and would be a great option to create online video.  If I'm sending an email, Jing would probably be the application I use.