Cam23 Things 5 and 6: Screenshots and -casting

I'm late again, still talking about screenshots and screencasting, but hopefully with a new tool to share with you, as I haven't found it mentioned in any of your posts. I've never been a great fan of the Print Screen button, and for some reason Microsoft Paint has never been my favourite image-manipulation option; if I have understood it correctly, LightShot is available only for Firefox and Chrome, which I haven't got, so what am I going to do? I'm going to share with you the amazing power of the Windows 7 Snipping Tool, plus Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Excited? Wait and see...


Given that the challenge was to produce a video, I have tried Screencast-o-matic and produced the video below. BEFORE watching, please bear in mind the following:

• It is the first draft. I know the screen area is badly arranged, I know how to do it better, next time I'll do it better, please trust me on this.
• I recorded it after work but in my office, i.e. with the department's director walking around the library at unpredictable times: this is why I'm whispering and you will need to set the volume quite high. This will make you hear all my breaths and gasps unfortunately, please be merciful.
• It is the first time I heard a recording of my voice speaking English! I was quite appalled by the strong accent but everyone has accents in this Country, right? ;-)

So, just for you cam23-ers, this is The Amazing Snipping Tool, and The Most Amazing Picture Manager, Whispered in a Deserted Library by MG:

If you want to see something a bit more professional, look for Snipping Tool on YouTube - there's plenty of videos there.
I'll just add that I loved Screencast-o-matic and I'm definitely going to use it for the library - there is a series of web pages that would benefit enormously from an explanatory video on how to use them.