Screencast

A screencast or screen-casting is the act of recording an activity on a computer screen, while you're narrating. Any action a user makes on their screen can be recorded as a video. These recordings, called screencasts, can be seen all over the Web as parts of tutorials, advertisements, movies, training videos, and the like. 

My thoughts on Screencast-o-matic:  it was easy to sign-up for, the idea of creating a screencast was intriguing, once I figured out what it was. I ran into multiple issues trying to use screencast-o-matic on my computer.  When you're not that technical, every little thing can be a bit frustrating. By the time I switched computers and recorded my first screencast, I had reached a high level of frustration, not because screencast-o-matic was difficult to use, but my computer!
Here is a link to my screencast http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/coXQfOhIBE, the sound is not that great, and by the time I finally recorded, this was my 7th take (I kept getting pop-ups on my screen) so I would pause my recording and have to rerecord.  Overall, I thought screencast-o-matic was pretty easy to navigate through, and you get more than enough time to record.  I would recommend it to those wanting to produce a screencast.  I think I just have issues with the computers I'm using.  I was going to create my second screencast using Screenr, but unfortunately they were retiring their site on November 11, so I went with Jing.  Read about Jing and my experience below.


Jing   With Jing you can capture an image of what you see on your computer screen with. Simply select any window or region that you want to capture, mark up your screenshot with a text box, arrow, highlight or picture caption, and decide how you want to share it. Jing records everything you see and do, however videos are only limited to five minutes.  I got a bit confused because I wasn't sure if I needed to sign-up through screencast or not?  But, once I figured it out it was fairly easy. I would recommend Jing as well, I didn't come across any major hurdles, other than the computer I was using. Click the link below to view my screencast on making a comic strip using MakeBeliefsComix:

http://screencast.com/t/G5EWLUPyu

Have fun creating your screencast!