Jing Screencast

This morning I learned how to create a Jing Screencast. It was incredible easy thanks to this tutorial video from Jing. In fact, I made a number of mistakes in my first few takes and it still took me less than 30 minutes to come up with a final product.

Anyway, I've developed a screencast that will teach my students how to embed an artifact - in this case a Prezume - in a blog. Please take a few minutes to watch Embedding Your Prezi.

Jing allows you to create a digital movie (called a screencast) without a digital camera. Your screencast is created when you capture the image on your computer's screen while you narrate a story or lesson. You can then share that screencast.

The Jing 'Sun' has three prongs and each prong allows you to access different Jing related tools. The first prong is the capture tool. You use this tool to capture still images or video from your computer's screen. You determine the capture area for your screencast by using a set of crosshairs to create a frame around the area you want to include in your video. The free version of Jing creates videos in SWF flash format whereas Jing Pro creates videos in MP4 format.

The second prong allows you to view your Jing history at Screencast.com - every artifact that you create in Jing can be saved to your history for future access. Once an artifact is in your library, you can push it to the internet or share it with other folks by emailing the URL or embedding it in your blog. In addition to saving your creations to your Screencast.com library, you can save your screencasts to your computer's hard drive. I simply saved mine to the file folder that I am using for this class. If necessary, you can upload the file from you computer to your Screencast.com library so that you can share it with other people.

The third prong allows you to access your Jing preferences, send Jing feedback or get Jing help.

Relationship to Standards - the Jing Video activity related to the following standards: 1(a) in that Jing will allow educators to promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking. A teacher could use this tool to teach students about an infinite number of topics; 1(b) in that Jing could be used to solve authentic problems using digital tools;  2(a) in that Jing incorporates digital tools to promote student learning and creativity.