Teacher+Tools


 * Video capture tools** allow you to record your movements on a computer, with audio, to demonstrate to others how they can use computer applications. Recording a presentation is very helpful, especially when you want to play the presentation for a group while assisting your audience, if you have to give repeated presentations to multiple classes, or if you want to imbed the presentation in a wiki or website for others to view at their leisure. Here are two free downloads that allow video capture:

[|Camstudio] A more traditional tool, which allows the recording of longer demonstrations.

[|Screencast-o-matic] Allows easy recording (up to fifteen minutes in length) with no sign up required.

Want students to focus on just a portion of text from a website? Try this: Printliminator! This one removes all text on page except for the main article. Pretty neat! Drag the button up to your browser bar.

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