Links:

http://freescreencast.com/

Transcript:

Welcome to The Technology Teacher podcast, episode number 24.

I'm your host, Ron Kroetz, technology education teacher at El Cerrito Middle School in Corona, CA.

Many of you may have heard of a piece of software called Camtasia. It's designed to record your screen so that you can demonstrate something, like how to edit audio in Audacity. Well, Camtasia costs real money. But, I've found a great new website that will allow you to capture your screen. And as always, it's free.

Free screen cast dot com is a new site that allows you to create flash videos of your computer screen and then publish them to the internet. This is great for teachers who want to record demonstrations of computer projects or how-to's of specific applications. Students could use this technology to record them selves giving powerpoint presentations or presenting a paper.

A nice feature is that the user can upload their screencast to the free screen cast website for free and they will host it. Allegedly for life. This saves you from having to host it on your own server. You can also download the screencast and save it to your computer.

Free screen cast dot com says that they believe that information should be free and they support the open source software concept. I'm not sure how they plan to monetize their site, but, it appears to be a great option for educators who want to record computer demonstrations.



Well, that's it for this weeks show.

Email me at ron.techteacher@gmail.com