Sketchcast is back

Sketchcast was a brilliant website that let you draw onto a webpage and record everything you did as a flash movie file.

You could even record audio to go alongside your drawing if you wanted to.The file you produced could then be embedded into your blog or wiki page and shared with the world.

Sadly, the website vanished without a trace last year, which was a shame.

Happily, it looks like Sketchcast is back up and running. There’s no mention on the site about why it vanished. Maybe that will be explained sometime.

It would be great to combine this site with your interactive whiteboard. Students could produce drawings to show how they have solved maths problems, or balanced science equations for example.

Given that the site has vanished in the past – you might not want to store a large amount of material here, and if you plan to use it in a lesson, do have a Plan B just in case (Smart Notebook and Activ both have built-in screen recorder tools you can use, they just don’t share the file so easily), but it is worth a play.

Take a look at the example Sketchcasts, and have a play to see how you could use it.

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