Jing Screencast

For this assignment we were to create a short video giving instruction on the use of a technology using Jing. To complete this activity I opened a Power Point assignment that students complete in my class. I selected the sun in the top middle of my screen. This allowed me to see the menu options and to begin using Jing. The Jing 'Sun' has 3 prongs: 1. Capture, which allows you to capture an image or a video, redo the selected area to capture, and cancel the capture; 2. History, which shows the images and videos you have captured to your hard drive and when you point to a file it gives the name, type, date, size, and dimension; 3. More, which allows you to finish, send feedback, set your preferences, get help, and exit Jing. I selected capture; this automatically gives you cross-hairs to select the area of your screen to capture. After selecting my area, I selected the video icon.  The menu (tool bar) has 5 options: Finish, Pause, Mic mute, Redo and Exit. The tool bar can be placed anywhere on your screen, so it is easy to have it out of the way of what you are capturing. Once the capture is complete, I clicked on Finish, which gives you the option to play the video capture. Saving on my computer gives me a shock wave flash file. I keep my machine organized, so I placed it in the folder where I keep my school work. Share to screencast option loads the file into my screencast library and places it in the Jing share folder. This is how I share it. Flash player is what is used to play the video cast.

 I selected video menu and began recording my instructional video. I wasn’t happy with the first few tries, but it was very easy to delete and begin again. I saved my completed work and then placed a copy in my library at  Screen Cast. I already explained all of the steps in excruciating detail above.

I learned that Jing is a computer Software program that allows me to not only share annotated visual artifacts with other people on the internet, but to share my created screen casts in the cloud. I learned that this was extremely simple to do and with the combination of the Jing software and the Scree Cast web site makes sharing my screen casts with students and parents very easy.

I can use this feature in my Career Pathways course. One of the best uses of Jing for me would be the ability to create a video that goes through the steps of the assignments after the students read the directions. Modeling is such an important part of teaching and the Jing video feature makes it easy to give the students a model they can follow outside of the classroom. So they have a model to follow as well as directions all on one easy to view page from any computer they access. 

The screen cast that I created with Jing is Jing Screencast.  The Jing folder for me is at Jing on Screen Cast.

The ISTE NETS T standard applied in this lesson was the same as in the last lesson. This was no surprise since this lesson built on the last lesson. I was able to Model Digital Age Work and Learning. Jing gives me the ability to make a video of the instruction that I present in class and place it on the web for students and parents to use as a reference when completing the assignment outside of class. So, I am using this software and the screen cast website to communicate class information in an effective manner to both students and parents in a "digital age" format.