1. Screencasting with Jing
BEN ANDERSON
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2. Outline
What is Jing
What does Jing Cost?
What is a Screencapture?
What is a Screencast?
Jing and Screencasting
Installing Jing
Setting Jing Preferences
Screencaptures with Jing
Screencasting with Jing
Sharing and Educational Uses of Jing
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3. What is Jing?
Jing captures anything you see on your computer
screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share
it instantly.
It is a free piece of software from
Techsmith.com that must be
installed on your computer.
They also make a more robust
product for screenrecording
called Camtasia and Camtasia Studio
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4. What Does Jing Cost
Jing is Free
When you install Jing you must create a
Screencast.com account associated with a valid email
address.
Screencast.com is TechSmiths media hosting
solution that Jings uses to host your content.
You get 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth per
month for Free.
You can also save Jing files to your own computer via
and FTP server.
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5. What is a Screencapture?
A screen capture is a snapshot of your computer
screen or a portion of your screen much like a still
photograph.
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6. What is a Screencast?
A screencast is a video recording of your computer
screen or a portion of it while you are performing
some task on it. If you want to narrate what you are
doing on the screen you can record audio at the same
time you’re recording the action on your screen.
When published to the Web, this is known as a
screencast.
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7. Jing and Screencasting
With Jing you can record both screencaptures and
screenrecordings.
Screenrecordings can be published as screencasts.
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8. Installing Jing
Download from www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Install on your computer
Setup a Screencast.com account
Start Using Jing
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10. Take a Screen Capture with Jing
Step 1 – Mouse over the Jing sun and click capture
Step 2 – Click and Drag cursor around what you
want to capture
Step 3 – Click on Capture Image
Jing Capture
Window
In the Capture window
you can give the
captured image a name,
highlight areas with
color, add call-outs,
arrows, and text.
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11. Annotate Screen Capture
Step 4 – Annotate your screen capture with the
comment and drawing tools.
Highlight certain features or areas of the image
Add colored arrows
Add text boxes or callouts
Draw highlights
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12. Share a Screen Capture
Step 5 – Upload your screen capture to
Screencast.com. Save it to hard drive or copy and
paste it into an application.
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13. Create a Screencast – Before You Begin
Before you begin screen recording, make sure you
have the following.
Quiet place to record
A good quality microphone
A webcam if you have the pro version of Jing
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14. Create a Screencast with Jing
Step 1 – Mouse over the Jing sun and click Capture.
Step 2 – Click and Drag your cursor around the part
of your screen you want to capture.
Step 3 – Click Capture Video
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15. Create a Screencast with Jing
Step 4 – Wait for the count down before you begin
speaking and recording your video.
Step 5 – Click Stop when you are finished recording.
A video of how to do
a screen recording
with Jing. Play
actual video on next
slide.
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16. Publish and Share Your Screencast
Step 6 - Preview your recording
Step 7 - Give it a name
Step 8 - Upload it to your Screencast.com account or
save it to your local hard drive.
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17. Sharing Your Screencast
Once saved as a video file, your screencast can be
shared on a variety of websites.
Screencast.com
YouTube
TeacherTube
Facebook
Blip.TV
Any website or blog
Screencasts can also be shared on mobile devices.
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18. Educational Uses of Jing
Record lectures
Record announcements
Record audio and video feedback for students
Introduce assignments each week
Other
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19. Free Screencasting Resources
Visit www.tech4classrooms.com to find more free
resources for Screencasting and lots of other
technology programs.
Free Technology Resources for Schools
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