This document discusses using the Jing screen recording software to provide video feedback to students. It notes that students often do not engage fully with written feedback. Jing allows instructors to record their screen and audio to provide feedback by highlighting mistakes, explaining corrections, or summarizing tutorials. Benefits include feedback being more immediate and addressing different learning styles. Examples are given of using Jing to give feedback on essays, explain assignments, teach concepts, and answer student questions. Recommendations include preparing feedback before recording and focusing feedback on specific areas. Students generally prefer video feedback over written comments alone.

1. Jing® for Feedback and
Instruction
The Open University Business School Workshop
Using technology-based media in the disciplines of finance, accounting and
economics
9 April 2014
Susanne Winchester

2. How do students engage with feedback?
Feedback is often misunderstood or not read.
(Gibbs and Simpson, 2004; Hounsell,1987; Lea &
Street,1998)

3. How do students engage with feedback?
‘Some students threw away the feedback if they
disliked the grade, while others seemed
concerned only with the final result and did not
collect the marked work.’
(Wotjas, 1998)

4. How do students engage with feedback?
‘A number of studies have described students
receiving their assignment back, glancing at the
mark at the bottom, and then simply throwing it in
the bin, including all the feedback’.
(Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)

5. How do students engage with feedback?
For feedback to impact on learning, a number of
conditions must be met (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004):
 Feedback is received and attended to
 Feedback is acted upon by the student

6. What is Jing®?
a free application, downloadable to PC or Mac
http://www.techsmith.com/Jing®.html

7. The Jing® Sun sits at the top of your computer screen
Capture area button
History button listing captures made
Help and other buttons

8. What is Jing®?
enables taking screen shots and editing the image

9. What is Jing®?
enables recording brief videos (5 min max)

10. What is Jing®?
once the screencast is complete, it is uploaded to
screencast.com

11. What is Jing®?

12. What is Jing®?
once the upload is complete, the URL is
automatically copied to your clipboard can be
pasted to emails, embedded in website etc.
http://screencast.com/t/penfCBJIn

13. What is Jing®?
it can then be pasted into emails,
embedded in websites etc.

14. What is Jing®?
Screencasts can be saved to your computer
as .png files (screenshots) or .swf flash
videos

15. What is Jing®?
Screencasts can be stored (2GB) in a library at
screencast.com

16. Why use screencasting for feedback?
• more immediate
• tone prevents misconstruction or misunderstanding
• more information can be provided (approx. 200 words
per minute)

17. Why use screencasting for feedback?
• Combination of visual and audio feedback caters for a
range of learning styles
• Benefits students with specific learning differences
• Feedback can be replayed

18. Using Jing® for
Feedback

19. Giving feedback on highlighted
mistakes

20. http://www.screencast.com/t/ndHHOckVh

21. Giving feedback on corrected
work

22. http://www.screencast.com/t/IU2hNji1W

23. Giving feedback on essays –
Example by Dr Jane Hughes

24. http://screencast.com/t/gJEw5jaqiWO

25. Jing® for teaching
and guidance

26. Jing® for explaining “how to”
(join Elluminate)

27. http://www.screencast.com/t/eSiM
pLOrk

28. Jing® for explaining TMA
requirements

29. http://www.screencast.com/t/wdi70T
dyT

30. Jing® for summarising tutorials

31. http://www.screencast.com/t/XQmPGo3EFi

32. Jing® for teaching using course
materials

33. http://www.screencast
.com/t/bWs7zTORV

34. Jing® for teaching grammar
points in OU Live (online rooms)
(1)

35. http://www.screencast.co
m/t/XslMoXKQ

36. Jing® for teaching grammar
points in OU Live (2)

37. http://www.screencast.com/t/5rcsoAIBL

38. Jing® for teaching pronunciation

39. http://www.screencast.com/t/NeKvv2aAL6

40. Jing® for answering email
queries

41. http://www.screencast.com/t/yj
MKxbhXqS

42. Jing® for use with images and
explanations

43. http://screencast.com/t/fceL6GdE6By

44. http://screencast.com/t/vLNShIkRo

45. http://screencast.com/t/FnKEW5XE

46. Image created with Jing
http://screencast.com/t/1uNH9FCx2

47. Combination of Jing-created image and
recorded explanation
http://screencast.com/t/KeDihathD

48. Jing® for explaining concepts
and processes – Example by Dr
Jane Hughes

49. http://screencast.com/t/Gl1vdwucPU3t

50. Student perception of video feedback
Results from study using video feedback in addition to
written feedback with first year Biology undergraduates:
• 74.3% preferred video feedback over written feedback
• “I found it a lot more useful than the handwritten
feedback on my essay”.
(Kerr & McLaughlin, 2008)

51. Recommendations
• Read/correct/mark before giving
feedback
• Concentrate feedback on specific areas
• Use video feedback as a summary
• Consider size of the capture area
• Increase font size of original when
working with text

52. Recommendations
• Leave sufficient space at the top,
bottom and right hand side to access
tabs and scroll bar
• Brief students on video feedback
• Consider the best way of sharing video
feedback – via Assessment Summary or
on original TMA?

53. Over to you!
Watch the next four video clips and
note down:
 what works and what doesn’t
 advantages and disadvantages of
video feedback
 how you could adapt the
technique in your own context

54. Video 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upyj9jUFW_A
Video 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMuCWOvmVE
Video 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrPm1tQENl8
Video 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjU3a9cyD6c

55. Thank you!
Susanne Winchester, AL in German,
FELS, L193, L130, L203
s.winchester@open.ac.uk