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Two easy and free (or nearly free) ways to create mathcasts are using Ed.VoiceThread and Jing or JingPro
Ed.VoiceThread
| ▪ | www.Ed.VoiceThread.com is free or inexpensive ($10 and up) for educators. |
| ▪ | Upload images of problems to VoiceThread. Comment on them: Doodling with mouse, text, voice, etc.. |
| ▪ | VoiceThread is a web-browser based tool. It works on IE or Firefox and on PCs or Macs. |
| ▪ | We used VoiceThread along with images captured using TechSmith SnagIt to create 500+ mathcasts for our K-7 Mathcasts 500 Project. |
Jing or JingPro
| ▪ | www.JingProject.com from TechSmith. |
| ▪ | Use with document camera, free annotation software, etc. |
| ▪ | Works on PCs or Macs. Free (Jing) or $14.95 per year (JingPro). |
| ▪ | You can record up to 5 minute mathcasts with Jing or JingPro and then easily share them through free 2 GB Screencast.com (also from TechSmith) account or in many other ways (embedded in InterWrite Workspace notebooks, SMART Notebooks, etc.). |
| ▪ | Jing (free) will produce only to .swf (Flash) output format. Camtasia Studio can now import these as well as .mp4 files created by JingPro. |
| ▪ | Jing or JingPro allow you choose whether to copy a link to your screencast or the embed code to the clipboard. The latter makes it incredibly easy to create a mathcast or screencast and embed it in your blog, wiki, etc.. |
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