The document summarizes and demonstrates several free online tools for creating screencasts, video conferencing, and live streaming videos including Jing, Screencast-o-Matic, Livestream Procaster, BigMarker, and Google Hangouts. It provides quick overviews and demonstrations of each tool's basic features and capabilities for screen recording, video recording and editing, hosting live videos, and conducting online video conferences.

1. Screencasting and Video Conferencing at No Cost Richard A. Smith Clinical Associate Professor Instructional Technology & Caroline M. Crawford Associate Professor Instructional Technology School of Education University of Houston – Clear Lake October 27, 2011

2. Jing Free SWF video 5-minutes of screen recording Mark-up tools for images Screencast.com Free Account Go to, http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

3. A Quick Demo To start screencasting (or initiate a screen capture) with Jing click on the cross hairs on the Jing sun. That will start your production of a screen cast video or a screen capture.

4. Jing Basic Overview Let’s take a look at how to use Jing. First, let’s do a screen capture (quick and simple) The captured screen Next, we can do a screencast

5. Screencast-o-Matic 15 minutes of video Records as .mpeg Save videos to your computer Free hosting (15 min per upload) Upload to YouTube HD Export to MP4, AVI, FLV movie Record web camera

6. Screencast-o-Matic Screencast-o-Matic Demo Let’s try out Screencast-o-Matic

7. Livestream Procaster Actually an online tool for creating live 24/7 streaming online television channel Mix live webcams, YouTube videos and add graphics using the tools provided by the site You can also use it to create slick instructional videos

8. Livestream Procaster Create videos in Livestream Studio, a full-featured video editing application designed for creating live content Allows multiple people in different geographic areas to contribute content to the channel

9. Livestream Procaster Let’s take a look at Livestream Procaster For a really slick demo, click here Don’t want those advertisements? Click here

10. BigMarker – Video Conferencing http://www.bigmarker.com/ Participants: are the people attending the conference. Presenter: is the person leading the conference. Moderator: is the administrator of the conference.

11. Participants Listening and sharing your voice Share your webcam and see each other Raise your hand Use public and private chat Instant Translation Presenter Share any PDF or Microsoft Office documents Grab everyone’s attention Share your Desktop

12. Moderator See all participants Mute or unmute any participants Make a presenter

13. http://www.bigmarker.com/

14. Google Hangout A new Google Feature A quick overview

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