One of the most useful tools in any classroom is a screen capturing app. Screen capturing apps allow you to capture an image of whatever is on your screen at the time. Sometimes you want a full screen image. Sometimes you want to capture only a specific region of the screen. Other times you may want to make a video of what is happening on your screen. TechSmith SnagIt is a great tool for both Mac and PC that can easily capture whatever you need from your screen. Educators can purchase SnagIt at discounted rate. So if you want the full version for your laptop, contact your administrator as soon as possible.
The SnagIt Chrome extension is also a great tool for students to use on their chromebooks. At least it was until TechSmith discontinued it. As of late August it would no longer be receiving updates and would not be available in the Chrome Web Store. The announcement set off quite a tizzy on Twitter. But TechSmith could not be persuaded to keep SnagIt going.
Fortunately, there are other screen capturing apps and extensions available for Chromebooks; Awesome Screenshot, Clipular, Nimbus, Screencastify, and CaptureCast just to name a few.
I started using Screencastify yesterday during a workshop. It seems like a better option than Nimbus when screencasting. Screencastify has a smoother transition into Google Drive and, it saves as *.mov file that everyone can open. For screenshots, Nimbus works fine though.
ReplyDeleteIf Google wanted to create an extension that did what the SnagIt extension did, it would change everything. Think about it. Get a screen capture, open it up in Drawings for annotation. Save to Drive automatically. Upload to YouTube.
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