What is Screencasting???

Many of the youtube links you see in this blog link to videos that utilise screencasts. Screencasting software records what you are doing on your computer, while at the same time you can provide commentary to what is happening on the screen.. It is easy to make your own screencasts, and there is free software to help you to do it - Camstudio and Wink.

However your school may have a licence for Camtasia (mine did!) and lickity split it was on my machine and I was playing around with it.

Screencasts are very useful as tutorials, as students (or other teachers) can refer to them at any time, it frees you as an educator as the viewer can learn at their own pace and go back if they missed a step. If you want to make a screencast for a class to
I have already made a suggestion that some screencasts could be useful to show staff how to download their Markbook files, I forget and have to be shown every assessment cycle!