ScreenCamera
Suppose you have a colleague or learner who is having problems using some application and needs your help. You can send them some screenshots with explanations or you can create a video recording of your desktop (using CamStudio or similar software), a process called screen cast, and send them the video.
Screen casts or video tutorials are the in-thing these days.
But how about this:
...invite them to join you on an instant messenger like Yahoo Messenger or Skype, and give them a real time streaming video of your desktop so that they can watch as you do it? Now isn't that is geeky? ☺
Screen casts are 'cool' because it’s like watching somebody use the computer over their shoulder. It is even cooler if it could be done in real time.
ScreenCamera is software that captures your desktop and turns it into a video which you can stream to anyone over a network that supports webcam.
ScreenCamera is like a webcam for your desktop, the difference is – a webcam points towards you whereas ScreenCamera points towards the screen, literally.
When the application is launched, it immediately starts capturing your screen and displays it on a small player window with the controls at the bottom.
Find out more and/or download at http://www.pcwinsoft.com/ScreenCamera/free.asp.
Note: The video does not capture the application’s own window, by default, so you can have it running on top without appearing it on the actual video. The video stream created behaves like a webcam stream and works with any instant messenger application like MSN, Skype, ICQ, Yahoo! etc. You can also share your screen as well as your webcam (upgrade only) on multiple instant messenger applications at the same time.Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License
Produced and edited by John Dalziel (eLearning Adviser) JISC RSC-Northwest - Lancaster University