5.2 Screencasts

Screencasts are screen recordings, such as narrated PowerPoint presentations or tutorials. This course is filled with screencasts created using tools such as Quicktime and Camtasia and then uploaded to YouTube (that’s certainly not the only option). As you have seen in this course, screencasts can be very useful for providing short lectures or showing students how to use online tools for teaching and learning. These can be particularly useful if you are flipping your class Links to an external site..

Through the three videos below, you will learn how to create a screencast of a Web site tutorial using Quicktime Links to an external site., how to create a screencast of a PowerPoint presentation using Quicktime, and finally, how to create a screencast using the online tool Screencast-o-matic Links to an external site.. Each tool has its benefits and drawbacks, depending on what you are trying to accomplish.