{"id":2774,"date":"2013-06-25T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2013-06-25T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:38:01","slug":"five-great-free-screen-capture-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2013\/06\/five-great-free-screen-capture-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Five great free screen capture tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thanks to Fawei Geng for this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4142\/4773761493_b9a11d7b83_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jronaldlee\/4773761493<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Screen capture software can be used to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>deliver online lectures that include annotations<\/li>\n<li>create demo videos for any computer programs<\/li>\n<li>record a video explaining a technical solution \u00a0to a problem frequently asked by your students<\/li>\n<li>share tips and tricks for using any computer systems, e.g. a VLE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been using Jing to capture images and screencasts on my computer for some time now. It is very easy to use,\u00a0 however, Jing only allows one to record up to 5 minutes of footage:\u00a0 this can be considered as a limitation or advantage depending on how you view it.<\/p>\n<p>Our attention span [1] is about 5-20 minutes and most people tend to skim-read the web so short videos are more likely to be watched from the beginning to the end.\u00a0 Having said that, a lecturer may need more than 5 minutes when a complex idea is explained.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 5 free screen capture tools recommended by friends on Twitter.\u00a0 A big thank you to @hardy_alison,\u00a0@mentalese and @patlockley.<\/p>\n<p>Three tools that need to be installed on your computer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QuickTime Player on Mac can capture the full screen or a defined region of your screen. \u00a0A how-to guide \u00a0can be found at the Apple site: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4024\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4024<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jing on both Mac and PC captures images on your screen or records screencasts up to 5 minutes of onscreen video.\u00a0\u00a0 More details can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/jing.html?gclid=CPDUj5Xd27QCFU3HtAod9WcAAQ\">http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/jing.html?gclid=CPDUj5Xd27QCFU3HtAod9WcAAQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CamStudio on PC \u00a0is able to record all screen activity on your computer as AVI video and covert it to SWFs.\u00a0 You can download it at <a href=\"http:\/\/camstudio.org\/\">http:\/\/camstudio.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two online tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenr.com\/\">www.screenr.com\/<\/a> allows you to record your screen by one click.\u00a0 You can record onscreen video for up to 5 minutes. \u00a0\u00a0To publish the video, you need to log into one of your online accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo Linkedin or Windows Live ID.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screen-o-matic.com\">www.screen-o-matic.com<\/a> is very similar to screenr: one click recording. The video file\u00a0can be published to the screen-o-matic site, Youtube, or saved to your computer.\u00a0 The recording is limited to 15 minutes and has screen-o-matic water mark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attention_span\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attention_span<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Fawei Geng for this post. Screen capture software can be used to: deliver online lectures that include annotations create demo videos for any computer programs record a video explaining a technical solution \u00a0to a problem frequently asked by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2013\/06\/five-great-free-screen-capture-tools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,295],"tags":[206,437,115,471],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning","category-web","tag-content","tag-free-software","tag-podcasts","tag-teaching-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}