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Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators

One of the most valuable tools for an instructional designer is a great screencasting app. Being able to record your desktop with voice narration frees us to share techniques on our computers in live motion video.

Many of us IDs have learned to depend on tools like Jing, Screenflow, Screenc...

I was just discussing free screencasting tools with some fellow Instructional Designers, and realizing how many of the most commonly‐used apps like Screencast‐O‐Matic are based on Java technology. Java’s recent plague of security breaches has earned it the title of  the biggest vulnerability fo...

By Sarah Rath

If you make a lot of screencasts, tutorials, or documentation, you probably keep a keen eye out for any tool that can make your documentation better. Sometimes when a picture isn’t enough but a video is too much, you can take an animated GIF recording of your screen.

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