Screen Casting

3 Articles on Screencasting:

1.) Screencasting: How to Start, Tools , and Guidelines by Adam Hay
Synopsis: This article tells you why Screen Casting is useful. It says that scree casting can show your ideas and theories rather than just telling them. It also gives you a step by step process in order to make a screen cast. Then, it gives you tips and helpful websites to visit.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/

2.) What is Screencasting? by Jon Udell
Synopsis: This article tells us that a screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action. It also tells us that it is not a new idea, it is just new to the public. It gives you genres of screencasts, tools, a how to, and a paragraph about the future of screencasts.

Link:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/11/16/what-is-screencasting.html

3.) 7 Things you should know about Screencasting
Synopsis: This article tells you what screencasting is, how it works, and also states both the positvies and negatives of using this method. It also states why it is significant.

Link: educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7012.pdf




Websites to help you Screen Cast:

http://www.techsmith.com/screencast.asp?gclid=CIu2k4K_9pwCFQTyDAodLkdjbw

http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/