Screencasting and Video Conferencing at No Cost

Richard A. SmithClinical Associate Professor

Instructional Technology

&Caroline M. Crawford

Associate ProfessorInstructional Technology

School of EducationUniversity of Houston – Clear Lake

October 27, 2011

Jing Free

• SWF video

• 5-minutes of screen recording

• Mark-up tools for images

• Screencast.com Free Account

• Go to, http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

A Quick Demo

To start screencasting (or initiate a screen capture) with Jing click on the cross hairs on the Jing sun.

That will start your production of a screen cast video or a screen capture.

Jing Basic Overview

Let’s take a look at how to use Jing.

•First, let’s do a screen capture (quick and simple)

•The captured screen

•Next, we can do a screencast

Screencast-o-Matic

• 15 minutes of video• Records as .mpeg• Save videos to your computer• Free hosting (15 min per upload)• Upload to YouTube HD• Export to MP4, AVI, FLV movie• Record web camera

Screencast-o-Matic

• Screencast-o-Matic Demo

• Let’s try out Screencast-o-Matic

Livestream Procaster

• Actually an online tool for creating live 24/7 streaming online television channel

• Mix live webcams, YouTube videos and add graphics using the tools provided by the site

• You can also use it to create slick instructional videos

Livestream Procaster

• Create videos in Livestream Studio, a full-featured video editing application designed for creating live content

• Allows multiple people in different geographic areas to contribute content to the channel

Livestream Procaster

• Let’s take a look at Livestream Procaster

• For a really slick demo, click here

• Don’t want those advertisements? Click here

BigMarker – Video Conferencing

• http://www.bigmarker.com/

• Participants: are the people attending the conference.

• Presenter: is the person leading the conference.

• Moderator: is the administrator of the conference.

Participants

• Listening and sharing your voice• Share your webcam and see each other• Raise your hand• Use public and private chat• Instant Translation• Presenter• Share any PDF or Microsoft Office documents • Grab everyone’s attention• Share your Desktop

Moderator

• See all participants

• Mute or unmute any participants

• Make a presenter

• http://www.bigmarker.com/

• Google Hangout – A new Google Feature

• A quick overview

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