A brief guide to screencast-o-matic – a free screencasting tool

Another free screencast tool. Like its counterparts of ScreenR and Jing there are premium versions also available at a specific price, providing additional functionality.

Good points

• Its free
• it allows 15 minutes video as opposed to the 5 minutes on offer through Jing and ScreenR

Bad points

• It is not as intuitive to use at first but once you get used to it, you will have no problems
• There is a watermark in your video with the free account

There are a series of tutorials on the use of screen-o-matic on their YouTube channel

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• What is screencasting (enhancingteaching.com)
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• Gregory Hill on storytelling, giving student feedback and improving writing with Jing (joedale.typepad.com)
• A brief guide to Jing – the free screencasting tool (enhancingteaching.com)
• A brief guide to ScreenR.com – the web based screencasting tool (enhancingteaching.com)