In the past I have talked about using Jing to record your screencasts for your students, but if you want to use something that allows you to embed your screencast videos into Blackboard then Screenr might just be the tool for you! Below I have embedded the video I created using Screenr.
Click Here to see a screen cast on how to create an external link in Blackboard:
You do not need to register in order to use
Screenr, but if you want to save your recordings you do need a Twitter account.
Screenr uses your Twitter ID to save your recording and publish it to Twitter, however please note that you can opt not to publish to Twitter. The recordings you make using
Screenr can then be published to Blackboard. You do not need to publish to Twitter in order to import your videos to Blackboard.
In order to publish to Blackboard you will want to select “Don’t tweet this screencast. I will tweet it through Twitter manually”. Then select to Publish your recording. This takes a few minutes depending on how large your video is (you are limited to 5 minutes). Once you have published your video it gives you the HTML code for the video on the right side of the screen. You will want to highlight that HTML code and copy it and then paste the HTML code into an item in Blackboard.
Click Here to see a video demonstrating how to embed HTML code into an item in Blackboard
Have fun with this new tool!
Thanks,
Amy
