Ready to Flip: 3 Cool Tools to Create a Screencast

The Flipped Classroom is increasingly popular giving instructors the flexibility to create recorded lectures so that students can watch at home.  This saves valuable classroom time for students to work collaboratively and engage in face-to-face discussions.  Screen Capturing is also a way I flip my assignments from traditional paper to student recorded presentations for all classmates to watch, view and give peer feedback.

My Top Screen Casting tools are FREE and Functional:

1. Quicktime Player: If you are an Apple User like me all you need to do is press the COMMAND button and SPACE Bar to search for Quick Time.  You will have three options:
1. Movie Recording: Records you from your video camera
2. Screen Capture: records whatever you have and are doing on your computer
3. Audio Capture: records your voice great for podcasts.
2. Screencastomatic: Free tool that is webbased and gives you 15 minutes of capturing time to record a presentation or information on the web.  Whatever you have on your computer it will record.
3.  Screencastify lite: get this chrome extension to have the power to capture your screen and record you. This is a free tool where videos can be easily uploaded to Youtube or downloaded for you.

Remember once you have your videos in Youtube they can be easily inserted into your blog.  Like my video below where I show you how to use the free web tool called ScreenCastOMatic.  Yes I know it is a long name but the tool is free and requires no downloading.  In addition this tool will not only capture your screen and record your lecture with perfect quality but will also upload the recording to Youtube for easy sharing.