Friday, November 2, 2007

Screencast-O-Matic.com

Screencast-O-Matic is an interesting free online screen-casting website.


With the features it has, we could use it for many types of training tutorials. It records video from the computer screen and sound from a microphone. The tutorials can be up to 15 minutes long. Once created Screencast-O-Matic will host it for us or we can save it as a quick time file.

After experimenting with it I have found it works pretty well and I see a number of applications for this technology. Here is my first attempt of screencasting the Camera Clinic part 1 (of 4). http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/ciXnifHr . Parts 2-4 are almost finished as well.

What do you think? There is a little buzz in the background, but if a USB microphone is used this should be eliminated. There may also be some editing that can be done to the quick time files for a more polished video and sound.

I think that after a little more experience a variety of quick personalized tutorials could be made with this site.

1 comment:

kbrewis said...

Thanks, Richard for this helpful website. This should come useful for me as I do training modules.