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"When a bolt of musical inspiration hits, many musicians will reach for their smart phones, pop open the built-in voice-recorder app, and make a quick recording of some combination of guitar, voice or piano, hoping to capture the essence of the idea before it fades. But a voice memo is a blunt tool for capturing a song idea, and the artist is left on their own to figure out how to translate a rough recording into something more substantial -- or even to remember what chords were played."

"When a bolt of musical inspiration hits, many musicians will reach for their smart phones, pop open the built-in voice-recorder app, and make a quick recording of some combination of guitar, voice or piano, hoping to capture the essence of the idea before it fades. But a voice memo is a blunt tool for capturing a song idea, and the artist is left on their own to figure out how to translate a rough recording into something more substantial -- or even to remember what chords were played."

When you're trying to teach people how to do something new on their computers having screencast videos or annotated screen capture images can be invaluable to you and the people you're trying to help. Here are some free tools that you can use to create screen capture videos and images.

List of Screen Capture programs for Mac

Ever need to capture a scrolling window entirely? This link has tools that can.

As it says, this is a screen capture tool that allows you to capture with audio and then share online.

Capture a picture with google goggles and an internet connection on your mobile device and it will take you to additional information about the item you have captured.

With Jing you can quickly capture a picture of your screen, record video of onscreen action, and share instantly over the web, IM, email.

A Microsoft product for screen capture.

Use Jing to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly...as an image or short movie. Great for tutorials in learning. Can tape your voice as you help students with online procedures.

Screen capture video with audio or slideshow

An app from the folks at TechSmith allowing motion screen capture with audio on the iPad.

same sort of product as Wimba and Elluminate

Create a PicLit -  Inspired Picture Writing - creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Download this simple screen capture software. The videos do not have a watermark and are made using a easily editable AVI format. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

"The learning registry is a new approach to capturing, connecting and sharing data about learning resources available online with the goal of making it easier for educators and students to access the rich content available in our ever-expanding digital universe."

"During one of the standard visits to see family and friends recently, I came across a childhood game that had captured the imaginations of many a youngster in my generation…Scalextrics! A friend of mine had bought the classic car racing game for his five-year old son and I could not turn down the opportunity of a race…with the reasoning of showing my 11-month old daughter how it works ***cough, cough***."

This is an example of a digital story created in myHistro.  What a cool way to capture a period of time for a project in social studies.

For windows.  May be an alternative to QuickTime Player for Mac.  Want to use this for screen casting.

Desktop video capture tool the best free tool to explain a web concept in a little clip that is related to a matter in a cursus.