Screentastic

Mick Jacobsenmjacobsen@skokielibrary.infotwitter.com/mickjacobsen

The mostfamousscreencastever!

The Script

• What is it?• Why?• Thinking like a screencaster• The big 3• Be brave• Group work • Hands-on time

What

A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. - Wikipedia

Why

Know your audience

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jblndl/45539374/

Cater to your long tailhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jason_coleman/181120172/

Know your goal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/viccastelo/2583391756/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calavera/65098350/

Answer questions

Tell a Story

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillclardy/2566241384/

Tell a story

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rapo/2240107535/

Be short

or be long

Point of Need

Don’t call them screencasts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10946770@N04/1036907562/

The Technologyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/6208920/

•Price: $299 or $249 nonprofits or $179 for education•Windows and Macs ($99)•Popular•Fairly easy to learn•Good audio•Very good callouts•Great export settings•Easy to edit•Great documentation•Allows tutorials•Hot spots•Table of contents•Webcam•Closed captioning•PowerPoint plugin•Stream format

•Price: $799 - $249 for educators•Windows or Mac•Hard to learn•OK audio•Audio for specific items•Decent callouts•OK export settings•Hard to edit•Bad documentation (Lynda.com)•Great text manipulation•Table of contents•Webcam•Closed captioning•Mouse editing•Great for tutorials•Previewing is annoying•Great image editing•Clip format

•Price: $99•Only for Macs •Very easy to learn•Decent audio•OK callouts•OK export settings•Very easy to edit•OK documentation•Table of contents•Webcam•Great text manipulation•No closed captioning (kinda)•Mouse editing•iPhone demonstration•Speed up and slow down clips•Stream format

CamtasiaCaptivateScreenflow

Learning Curve

Time

Skill

A few others

• Jing

• Screenjelly

• Screenr

• Camstudio

• YouTube

• Vimeo

• Blip.tv

• Flickr

• Facebook

• Your server

Where to store

http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarrun/405996859/

Equipment$99

$56

$25

Storyboarding

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heilemann/2396074550/

Communicatehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhector/456611804/

Assessement

Group Exercise

• Who is the audience?• Does it speak their language?• What is the goal?• Does it answer a question/s?• Is it interesting?• Is it at a point of need?• Is it short or long enough?

• http://j.mp/screencast-ileadu-1• http://j.mp/screencast-ileadu-2• http://j.mp/screencast-ileadu-4

Hands-on time