Welcome to “Screencasts” with Tara Wein

Why I researched screencasts….  I had student that was going to be absent for a week at the end of the year, so I wanted a way to help her.  I had a student on homebound and wanted to do more to help her than write out EVERYTHING!!!  Another teacher was out during final review, so I wanted her kids to have access to the reviews.

What is Snagit? Snagit is a program that captures what is on the screen. It can be a video, or a webpage, or just what’s on the screen. Is Snagit the only program? No, there are many screen capture programs “out there”, but my research pointed me to snagit.

Who benefits from screencasts? Homebound students Students that know they will be absent & request the work early. Absent students Students that need a second look Pre-record for when you will be absent. Students that need to preview the lesson

What does it take to make a screencast? Snagit ($29.95 with education discount) Some sort of writing tablet. (around $20 – 100) **These are 1 time purchases**

I found these tablets on Amazon by searching “pen tablet usb”. I like these because they are cheaper & connect directly to your computer, no software needed. You can get wireless tablets, but they require bluetooth & software.

..\Documents\Snagit\big circle.mp4 Let’s look at a sample of one of last year’s screen casts.

How to install Snagit

1. go to 2.Click on snagit download

3. Enter your address click on “Start Windows Download”

4. Select “run” when asked if you want to run snagit.exe

Now, you just follow the installation instructions.

How to record a screencast

Double click on the snagit 11 icon

Select “turn on OneClick”

Start your power point & select the pen Goes to the slide before Controls the pen Controls the slide show Goes to the next slide

Hover your cursor over the orange part on your screen.

Select “video” on the dropdown menu

Use the yellow crosshairs to select the part of the screen you want to capture.

Click the red REC button

Snagit will countdown from 3 before the recording starts. (the yellow film strips on the sides will be moving when you are recording).

Record your screen cast. When you are finished hit Shift f10 to stop the recording.

Once you stop the recording this screen will open up.

You can upload the video to screencast.com

Setup your screencast.com account

Fill in your information

You will see this screen.

When you are finished, this will pop up on the bottom right of the screen

You just signed up for your free account. I like this one because they don’t take ownership of your screencasts & it’s the same company that makes Snagit.

Uploaded files go in here

Double click on the “snagit” folder & you can see the files you’ve uploaded

Hover over the file & these icons come up. Opens the folder, or you can double click Edits the file’s properties Allows you to share the files Deletes the files

To edit the content of a file click on the edit icon.

Change the file name in the “title” box

To move a file from one folder to another, click on “move content”

To create a folder, click on “create folder”

Give the folder a name Change privacy settings

If you want anybody to be able to view your screencast, use this setting.

Use this one if you want people to have to be given the address for this folder.

Use this one if you want people to have to have a password to access the folder. It’s the one I use.

This is the most secure setting, but you have to invitations to each person individually. Would be a pain.

Now you can see my new folder

If you need help me: I’m wanting to start some kind of forum or blog about screencasts for us to support each other. If you want to join, please me with “screencast” in the subject. Copies of the powerpoint can be found on my ecisd webpage.