Get ready for video learning!

Screencast-O-Matic is a new consortium supplied, web-based tool that allows instructors to create basic screencasts/video learning for online courses.  I found Screencast-O-Matic to be a quick and easy program for general purposes. It is easy to use, and the videos it creates are a good quality for online courses. When users first visit the Screencast-O-Matic site, recording videos could not be easier. Instructors can easily record a video within five minutes of visiting the site’s homepage.

Video Captioning

It's a fact; online video accessibility for the hearing impaired can no longer be ignored.  Consortium colleges are currently working to meet standards of video captioning in our online courses.  The exciting news is we now have a tool that will allow instructors to close-caption video in their courses as they create their video, creating a more efficient and cost effective solution to meet ADA and college policies.   Screencast-o-matic tools include captioning, or scripting, while creating

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