maandag 11 januari 2010

Comparing 12 Free Screencasting Tools | EDUCAUSE

Comparing 12 Free Screencasting Tools | EDUCAUSE

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Over the course of the week, the list of Screencasting tools that have been recommended to me, or that I’ve otherwise learned of, has grown to a dozen.

I have a goal of trying identify a free tool or set of tools to use to create stand alone tutorials by combining screen images and screen motion with audio. I would also like to have some editing capabilities, so I could combine multiple captures and rearrange the order of these pieces if needed, and to be able to re-record audio notation if possible. I would also like to have screen annotation capabilities, at least for the screen captures.

News: Text Generation - Inside Higher Ed

News: Text Generation - Inside Higher Ed: "Text Generation
January 8, 2010

Since some professors began suggesting that Twitter could be used not just as a recreational lark but as a potentially revolutionary teaching tool, purists and futurists have debated whether academe should swim against the cultural current toward limited, text-based communication, or adapt to it.