What is Screencasting??!!

I had no idea what screencasting was when it came up in the assignment.. So I decided I would find out what this was!!!
Screencasting is defined as "a digital recording of a computer screen output...accompanied by audio narration" (Wikipedia, 2013) As I was reading about Task 2 in my learning guide I came across that I needed to download software to be able make my screencast, the two options I seemed to have was Screen-o-matic and Jing, i asked my peers in my next tutorial what they were using and it seemed that majority of my class was using Jing. I did my research on this software and it seemed like the best one to use!!

And the winner is JING... I decided to go with Jing because I liked that it’s a program that is always on your computer and you don’t need to be connected to the internet to capture videos or images. For our assignment the video is limited to 5 minutes duration so it wasn’t an issue that Jing only allows users to record for only 5 minute periods.



Check back to see how I go creating my screencasting video tutorial of how to add a reference using EndNote!