On 12 March 2015 at 15:10, Pine W <wiki.pine@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