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In addition to GCam (found at http://www.macmice.com/gcam.html, which is free), another piece of software that allows you to produce QuickTime movie from your webcam (e.g., iSight), is a product called CamSpinner, which costs $9.95. This product allows you to record both Quicktime and MPEG movies, and still images. This same company sells a Web authoring package called PageSpinner. If you purchase PageSpinner and CamSpinnner together, you save $9.95. The total cost of the two products is $29.95.
CamSpinner

Do you use Skype, the free Internet service for making phone calls? If you are a Macintosh user with OS X, you can record your Skype conversations using the instructions given at this site:
Webcrumbs: Recording Skype Calls

This may be a nice tool to use in a distance education (or even a F2F teaching situation (as long as the students have a computer in front of them that has a microphone). After the discussion is finished, the file could be posted on a web page for later accessing, or posted in a Course Management System, such as Blackboard.

You should really check out Flickr. There are some neat things you can do there. One of the neat things you can do is to put a Flash animation of your pics on your web site. Learn how to do this by going to www.flickr.com/fun/zeitgeist.

SnapZ Pro is a nice product that allows you to capture an entire screen, a portion of the screen, or a window. If you pay more, you can get the version that allows you to create movies of the screen actions. You can get SnapZ Pro from Ambrosia.

[posted with ecto]