Screencasting, although not quite as fun as bait casting or fly casting, is never-the-less one of my favorite tools on a computer for teaching. I use it to do demos and archive presentations. Students can go to the video and step through what they need, especially if they miss a presentation n class. And I love it for embedding in online courses. I do get frustrated when the ‘free’ programs do an update that is to ‘fix’ everything, but just ‘fizzes’ everything. You know what I’m Jing-ing about. I used Jing extensively, them an upgrade made it so it would not properly save file and could not access previously made files. I guess you get what you pay for.
Another issue is storage of multimedia files. YouTube education is great and pretty stable. Be careful that when you create links in Picasso and others, that you are not signed in on the secure. Or your link will not work for others. I have associates, however, who have made many Jing (and others) presentations that are great for training technical students in technical things.
The secret that I have found is to find a way to put all the resources for a specific training class in a single, uploaded folder full of the needed files, on the learning system or a wiki page. If it is there, you don’t loose it.
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