Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Screencast-o-matic - Screencasts and animated gifs with style

I'm a big fan of easy to use, practical tools.  I've found that in Screencast-o-matic.com.  This excellent, easy web-browser based screen recorder makes recording your screen a snap.

You can use headphones or a webcam to record, and you can easily choose the area of monitor to capture.  In one easy step, you can record up to 15 minutes.  In addition to being a wonderful resource for flipped classroom lessons, this tool can easily help teachers make tutorials, videos for substitutes to show whenever they have a planned absence, or demo videos so the teacher can rotate around the classroom instead of being tied to their desk.

It allows pausing and some rerecording as well.  It works on PCs (in Internet Explorer) and on Macs.

When you are finished with your film, you can upload your movie to YouTube, the Screencast-o-matic website, or download it as a movie file.

(Click on photo to see larger image.)


If you choose to download your screencast as a movie file, you can actually download it as an .avi, .mp4, flash .flv, or an animated gif.

To test out the animated .gif, I made this short .gif file of my niece.


So much fun!




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