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I've been living off bad airport food and out of hotel rooms for the past few weeks. This week is no different. But, hey, I'm having a great time in Seattle at Gnomedex! You can read more about it here. The good thing about being on the road is that I don't have to cook, clean or do any pesky things like shoveling snow (Okay, maybe not that - we're done with snow for a little while) that I normally have to do at home.

This trip has been great - where else, other than Seattle, could I make a screencast in the morning, stand on a volcano during the day (Mt. Rainier) and be at a tech conference that night?!

So, let's talk screencasting. I met up with Tim Fahlberg the other morning. You remember him, right? He makes math screncasts, or mathcasts as he calls them, and runs CoolSchoolTools and Mathcasts.org. He was kind enough to make a screencast with me.

We made the screencast in the lobby of the hotel I was staying at so you'll see all sorts of people wandering around in the background, bad lighting and hear the elevator dinging. So, if you'd like to see me struggle with basic math and see how to make a mathcast, click the screenshot below to start the screencast. It runs almost 11 minutes.

If you're interested in making your own mathcasts and whiteboard movies, here's a link to Tim's online book.

To make the screencast, here's what we used:

Hardware:

• Dell Latitude laptop, Latitude D600
• Creative LiveMotion Webcam
• 2 Lapel Microphones with a Y-cable/splitter
• Wacom Grapphire Tablet

Software:

• Microsoft OneNote
• FSCreations ExamView Assessment Suite
• SnagIt
• Camtasia Studio