Screencasting with Jing

Screencasting with Jing

BEN ANDERSON
WWW.TECH4CLASSROOMS.COM

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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


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


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.

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.


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.


Jing and Screencasting

 With Jing you can record both screencaptures and
screenrecordings.
 Screenrecordings can be published as screencasts.


Installing Jing

 Download from www.techsmith.com/jing.html
 Install on your computer
 Setup a Screencast.com account
 Start Using Jing


Setting Jing Preferences

 Default account at Screencast.com
 Capture hotkey
 Connection Settings
 Choose Audio Input
 Share Options


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.


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


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.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


Educational Uses of Jing

 Record lectures
 Record announcements
 Record audio and video feedback for students
 Introduce assignments each week
 Other


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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