Erin Wallace
Here are some terrific iPad apps to create screencasts, which are digital recordings of your computer screen, often accompanied by audio or video narration.
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer.
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play... With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.
ScreenChomp is a free app for creating and sharing short tutorials or demonstrations on your iPad.
ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a very simple app that anyone can use.
Knowmia Teach is a free lesson planning and recording tool for teachers and their students. It helps you create short video lessons on any subject and publish them on Knowmia.com so students, other teachers and the public can find them. Knowmia Teach makes it easy to bring in visual aids from multiple sources, organize them in steps (like slides in a presentation) and use your own voice to bring your lesson to life.
The app makes it easy to produce engaging content by enlivening static documents (ppt, pdf, image) with audio, writing, and drawing capabilities.
Produce video presentations and lectures on your iPad.
Vittles combine your photos, handwriting, and voice into engaging videos that can be easily shared with anyone.
Use playback to write, sketch and type on a virtual whitboard or over your presentation slides. Playback will record your annotations along with audio commentary to produce a movie you can share. Movies can be emailed, saved to the iPad’s Camera Roll or opened in any compatible apps you have installed such as Dropbox and Evernote. A PDF of your slides including all your annotations can also be exported and used as companion notes to your movie.
Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments. Anyone can join the discussion from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC.
Combine screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard. Create a lesson or presentation, insert images, save and edit your project and record a screencast video you can easily save or share.
