On 12 March 2015 at 15:10, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Following up on this: Cascadia Wikimedians may need
some kind of
presentation outline or screencast along these lines by mid-April. If the
WMF education team and others can't create one by that time, we/I might
hack together a rudimentary version and put it on Commons for others to
reuse and/or build on.
Does anyone have recommendations for screencast creation software,
preferably ones that are open source?
I started using a Chromebook last July, precisely because I wanted to make
screencast videos. I would recommend the screencast app for Chromebook,
simply because it is free and I could get quick results. (I don't know
whether it is open source.)
In this context, of training videos that will need to be changed soon, it
makes a lot of sense to me to work with this sort of lightweight system,
and develop an informal, conversational style - very much "live".
Of course you need to do some rehearsal and scripting, but it is possible
to get decent results after a few hours. (I do have lecturing experience: I
probably like the approach for that reason.)
Charles