A short presentation on screencasting; recording the movements on a computer screen. The presentation suggests two free software options for doing screencasts on windows OS.

1. Getting starting with Screencasts Michael Paskevicius This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.

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8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pvoie4ydSw Screencast created to address this common question on our campus

9. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/screencasts/default.aspx Example

10. http://khanacademy.org/ Example

13. by Watchcaddy by visual.dichotomy Microphone A microphone is often built into modern laptops Whenever possible use a headset or microphone to ensure the best quality recording

15. Introduction to CamStudio Press to begin recording what is on your screen Pause the recording Stop the recording and save the file

16. Before your first recording On the menu bar under 'Region', ensure that the region is set to 'Full Screen ' (if you want to record the entire screen) On the menu bar under 'Options', ensure that you have selected 'Record audio from microphone' (if you want to record your voice)

19. Free compression: Upload the file to Youtube then download the compressed MP4

20. OpenSource Compression Option Software homepage Tutorial: Start at Step 2

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