Three Ways to Create Screencasts on Chromebooks

One of the questions I'm often asked about Chromebooks is about creating screencast videos. The following three options allow you to cre...

Video - How to Create Placemarks and Layers On Google Maps Engine Lite

Last week I published a set of screenshots containing directions for creating placemarks, polygons, and layers on Google Maps Engine Lite . ...

ScreenCastify - A Screencasting Option That Works on Chromebooks

ScreenCastify was the star of my Google+ feed yesterday. It seemed like everyone was talking about this new Chrome tool that allows you to ...

15 Options for Creating Screen Capture Images and Videos - Including on Chromebooks

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

How to Screencast On a Chromebook

I've reviewed a lot of screencasting tools over the years (a list of seventeen can be found here ). The problem with most screencasting ...

How to Create Multimedia Projects Using Mozilla's Popcorn Maker

Mozilla's Popcorn Maker is a free tool for crafting videos that incorporate images, remixed video clips, links, and social feeds. It ca...

5 Free Tools for Providing Remote Tech Help

If you're the "techy" person in your school but you're not in the IT department sometimes your colleagues come to you with...

17 Free Tools for Creating Screen Capture Images and Videos

When you're trying to teach people how to do something new on their computers having screencast videos or annotated screen capture image...

Grading Made Easy with Diigo & Jing

This is a guest post from Rebecca Johnson. Both Diigo and Jing have been written about on numerous occasions here at the Free Technology ...

7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers

Introducing new technology tools to your students or to your colleagues can become a frustrating exercise if you end up repeating the same s...

ScreenChomp - Create & Share Tutorials on Your iPad

ScreenChomp is a free app for creating and sharing short tutorials or lessons on your iPad. ScreenChomp provides a whiteboard on which you ...

Show Me What's Wrong - Help Your Friends With Their Computer Problems

Show Me What's Wrong is a free service offered by Screencast-O-Matic . The service is designed to help you help others with their compu...

Screenr No Longer Requires a Twitter Account

A few times over the years I've written about and had a guest blogger write about using screencasts to clarify instructions to student...

How to Use Drop.io for Free

Earlier today I posted a list of ten ways that teachers can use Drop.io . There was some confusion about whether or not Drop.io is free. Dr...

Screenjelly - Quick and Easy Screencasting

Screenjelly is a free web-based tool that allows anyone to quickly create a screencast video. To use Screenjelly all you need to do is go ...

3 Web-based Tools for Creating Screencast Videos

Earlier this month my favorite web-based tool for creating screencast videos, ScreenToaster , announced that they are shutting down on July ...