Five Great Free Screen Capture Tools for Teachers and Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Five Great Free Screen Capture Tools for Teachers and Students

I have recently received some emails from teachers asking me about some free screen capturing and annotating tools. In fact there are several such tools online but only few work effectively for us in education. There are also various extensions and add-ons for both Chrome and Firefox users that let them exactly do the same thing these tools do. Anyway the following is a meticulously prepared list of tools teachers and even studnets will find useful particularly when preparing annotated pictures for tutorials and other lesson related activities.

1- Bounce

Bounce is a great screen capturing tool. It lets users not only capture a screenshot of anywebsite they want but can also add annotations and comments and share the finalized work with others using a specific URL.

2- Awesome Screenshot

This is my favourite and I have it installed on my Chrome browser. This extension allows users to :

Easily take screenshots of web pages
You can select whether you want a screenshot of the whole page or just a selected part
You can add annotations and draw boxes
You can also blur out information and add text to any screenshot you make

3- Aviary

Aviary is a great photo editing software that I have already covered in a seperate post a year ago. Aviary offers a very handy extension called Talon that works both for Chrome and Firefox and that does the same work as the previous tools above.

4- Jing