Screencasts give you an opportunity to share your screen with audio. While expensive products like Camtasia will sell you bells and whistles you really don't need, quite a few free tools exist which do the job just fine.
I use screencasts in my teaching and training to provide an easy way to follow step-wise tasks and procedures, review online quizzes and summarize assignments. [Sample 1 | Sample 2]I've used a bunch of tools but I really like the following:
Jing: Passively sits on your desktop and then records anything you want. It even keeps an online archive and allows you to save files online, to FLV or will even provide a SWF. (Available for both Mac and WIndows)
Screenflow: I like ScreenFlow over Camtasia since Screenflow is made ONLY for a Mac. It also has some automation features which make screencast creation a bit easier to accomplish.
Screenr: An online tool (no software needed) that will allow you to create screencasts from any computer.
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