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May 14, 2008

SketchCast: a New Blogging and Teaching Tool

Want to preserve that lesson you did at the blackboard today in class and share it with students online? Try SketchCast, a free blogging tool that allows users to record a digital drawing (and contemporaneous audio), and then embed the animated video onto a Web site. It’s essentially an easy form of animation.

Here’s the official demo:

—Catherine Rampell

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1. That’s quite a demo. My spare budget for classroom technology is only a couple-hundred thousand — how much can I get for this amount? (That’s more money than you might think, however. It’s in 1986 dollars, which is when some colleagues first developed similar tools for digital blackboards.)

   — S. Britchky    May 14, 11:07 AM    #

2. What a nice tool to capture and share ideas informally! I have been trying to capture tools and concepts for opening up collaborative learning on my blog www.collaborativenetworkedlearning.blogspot.com

   — Charles    May 14, 08:50 PM    #

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