Breakfast Cafe: Screencasting and Podcasting
Screencasts and Podcasts are a great way to provide engaging learning resources to students, whether it’s explaining assessment criteria, summarising the key points of a lecture, or providing video demonstrations. This morning’s Breakfast Cafe saw us take a look at the process for creating Screencasts and Podcasts and the tools available to do so.
We also shared 6 top tips for creating Screencasts and Podcasts:
• Understand the software you’re using
• Test your microphone and the recording quality
• Record in a quiet location
• Create a recording standard
• Be patient – A one minute video can take two or three minutes to record for an experienced user while a beginner may need longer
• And practice makes perfect
The slides from today’s session can be found below:
During the session we briefly looked at Camtasia Relay, Jing, and Audacity. However, there are a number of Apps available for creating both Screencast and Podcasts:
Finally, thanks to those who were able to make this morning’s session. If you have any questions or would like to borrow any equipment (microphone, webcam, etc) to get started, then please contact the TEL team: tel@yorksj.ac.uk.
Daniel & Phil
Further Reading/Resources
JISC Digital Media – Introducing screen capture software
JISC Digital Media – Using screen capture software
JISC – Copyright and legal advice on lecture recording
Educase – 7 things you should know about Podcasting
Mircosoft Office – Turn your PowerPoint presentation into a video
