Jing!

At the screencasting workshop, we are learning to use Jing, a free tool that allows you to make brief tutorials by recording what's happening on the computer screen. You can record audio also with this tool. Great for computer training, but you can also use it to walk students through a Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Blackboard course. Many instructional possibilities.

Yes, free and easy to use. You need to download the software and you can also sign up for an online account so that your tutorials can be automatically posted to the Web and shared through a link. Let me know if you're interested in learning more.

http://www.jingproject.com/

Here's the site for the workshop:

http://sites.google.com/site/fsi09jrhode/tutorials

And here's a link to the quick tutorial I made in class. It shows how to get started posting to our blog:

Create a New Blog Post