Blog : Screencasting and Audio Tool - io3

Here are just a few of the possibilities with ScreenCast-O-matic:

• Record procedures and answer common questions.
• Give learners audio-visual feedback (the next best thing to a 1:1 conversation).
• Record lessons that learners can access anytime, anywhere.
• Make a video to help the substitute teacher or trainer

• Communicate using a media learners love — videos.
• Create a live recording during a class activity or a student presentation.
• Share student-created content as part of homework or a class activity.
• Provide training videos for both faculty and students.
• Offer a fun, unique approach to digital storytelling

Interested in finding out more about ScreenCast-O-matic and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

Some top tips!

• Keep screencasts short—a couple of minutes.
• Prepare with notes, storyboards, or a mock-up.
• Speak conversationally and try to vary your tone of your voice
• Don’t worry about mistakes — you can re-record!
• Don’t be afraid to pause the video during recording to organize your materials or collect your thoughts, then start again.
• Use a simple background that doesn’t distract.
• Share the screencast where students will find it — YouTube, class blog, class website, or another location

Now that you have had a good introduction into ScreenCast-O-matic why not test it out for yourself, use these steps to give your screencast lesson structure!

The following steps will help you create a screencast quickly and effectively:

1. Topic: Give your screencast a specific name related to a content topic from your lesson or unit of instruction. Decide if the content format will be a presentation, tutorial, or demonstration.
2. Objectives: Specify the screencast’s learning objectives.
3. Script/outline: From the objectives write a script and/or outline of what you are going to say/cover during the screencast. If your screencast is going to be a tutorial – draft the steps it will follow and where you are going to screencast from – a website etc.
4. Practice: Read through your script and practice.
5. Record: Make the screencast recording. Keep the screencast no more than 10–12 minutes.
6. Publish video: You can publish the video into a variety of formats – on ScreenCast-O-Matic, on YouTube or as a video file

Note: if you choose YouTube, you can add some more effects music etc. to your video using YouTube Creator Studio!

Here are just a few of the possibilities with Camtasia:

• Screencasting has many instructional applications include step-by-step process visuals, demonstrations, tutorials, and presentations
• Create your own screencasts to create a video that aligns with your lesson objectives

• Record a PowerPoint presentation with narration and add special effects, images, audio and video.
• Record the computer screen, provide narration, and use a digital pen to show for example a sequence of steps to solve a problem, in real time

Interested in finding out more about Camtasia and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

Once you have downloaded Camtasia a good way to start creating and producing a screencast is by recording a PowerPoint presentation. Teachers often have PowerPoint presentations that can be modified for this purpose.

Start by adding narration; then add music, sound effects, video, and perhaps even special effects.

You will be amazed by how much more engaging your PowerPoint presentation becomes.

Creating a PowerPoint screencast involves four production steps:

(1) planning and scripting,

(2) recording,

(3) editing, and

(4) publishing

Now that you have had a good introduction into Camtasia why not take our Camtasia Exercise and get to grips with what makes a great screencast.

Go to our Camtasia YouTube Playlist and select one of the videos to review. Consider the following questions while you review the screencast.

My Observations:

• Was the tutorial short and simple? (e.g. 3 minutes or less)
• What was the introduction of the tutorial like?
• What was the screencaster tone of voice, did he/she talk with enthusiasm?
• Did you find parts of the tutorial distracting? (e.g. wiggling the mouse, filler words – um, like, so uh)
• How did the screencaster conclude the tutorial