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February 28, 2008
Screencasting Tools
Mashable rocks. Check out this list of 12 Screencasting Tools for Creating Video Tutorials. The list is split into free and commercial options, with a short description of each. How better to create educational tutorials for your users than with recommended free tools? I've used Camtasia (not mentioned on the list), which runs $299--lots of features, little tough to figure out initially. As for the free options, I've used Wink and CamStudio, and would recommend Wink of those two. Any other suggestions out there in libraryland?
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I've been using Wink recently (and I'll be writing up my experiences soon). I've found it fairly easy to use, and it did what I wanted it to do - produce reasonable-looking, simple tutorials which weren't overly bloated.
Haven't used anything else, but I'm happy with Wink.
Posted by: Simon Chamberlain | February28, 2008
Thanks for mentioning this Sarah, I've been trying to remember which screencasting tools have been mentioned in my blog reading, and regretting having not (or not well) tagged them at the time.
Posted by: moonflowerdragon | February28, 2008
Sarah, I agree with you about Wink. In my experience with it the screen captures work well, you can change the slides and the audio portion in easy to work with.
Even if you are not a techie, you can pick this up pretty easily.
Posted by: Maurice Coleman | February29, 2008
I use Jing quite a bit and am happy with it. It's a bare bones screencasting utility but at least you can use Flickr as an image dump, it gives you the option to embed the screencast on a blog/website, or an URL for easy distribution. You have to have Microsoft .NET installed before you can use it. Have used it for the quick chat reference session and the random e-mail question, when typing an answer would take forever. Wink, that's one I'm gonna have to try.
Posted by: Memo Cordova | February29, 2008
I've just been teaching a screencasting class using Wink, 'free' was an important consideration. I think it does a great job creating nice small files. And has lots of features for callouts and navigation buttons. But I've had problems with the audio quality. I've tested with a couple of microphones on two computers and nothing sounded great. Importing audio didn't help either. So if audio is really important, I'd go with Camtasia. Or just use screenshots and create a narrated slideshow with ppt.
Posted by: pollyalida | March 6, 2008
