Today you're going to try screencasting. A screencast is a recording of what happens on your computer screen. It is especially useful for showing people how to use a particular program that they may not readily understand.  - First you need to get CamStudio Portable. It is on the T: drive ⇒ Dykstra ⇒ Software.
- Drag CamStudio Portable to your flash drive.
- By double clicking on it, run it and install it on your flash drive.
- You need to demonstrate some program or website. What could you demonstrate?
- Destiny (Linden library search software)
- Ebscohost (library database)
- Creating a Google Alert at alert.google.com
- Show how to find an article on the Winnipeg Free Press Archives
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- Finding sports schedules on the Linden website
- Finding a National Film Board Video
- Show how to use Pivot Animator (and remember the point is to show how the program works, not to create your own Pivot animation)
- We're not demonstrating online or offline video games for this project.
- Make sure you know how the site/program works before you proceed.
- When you're confident that you do, start up CamStudio.
- Make sure under the Region menu you've picked Full Screen.
- Press the record button which is the big, red circle.
- Using the ALT and TAB keys, flip CamStudio to the back and the program you want to demonstrate to the front.
- Run through your demonstration.
- Once again using the ALT and TAB keys, flip CamStudio to the front.
- Press the big, square, blue button to stop the recording.
- A box will pop up prompting you to save the video you just created. Pick a spot you'll remember and press save. Don't forget to give the file a name. (The default is *.avi and that won't actually save.)
- You can plug a microphone into your computer and narrate your demonstration as you go.
Evaluation- Video demonstrates an important program.
- Video is two minutes in length.
- Video has audio explanation (or titles)
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