Screencasting recap

Screencasting - great, except when it's not.

I normally use a Mac, and when I attempted to adjust my resolution to 800x600, the recommended size for screencasting, my screen got all pixelated and was difficult to navigate. Thankfully, I had borrowed a Dell laptop from my school library for another class project. I was able to install Jing and successfully screencast from there.

I also found it helpful to do a dry run of my screencast. I made sure I knew my script, the links worked (learned that one the hard way), and I wasn't near any ringing phones or loudmouth, whiny cats (again, learned the hard way). Part of the Jing screencasting experience is ensuring the screencast is shorter than 5 minutes, something that talkative me had trouble with at first. But after a few practice runs, I was able to get the hang of not being so verbose.