Jing is a user-friendly tool meant to share images, tutorials, and videos online (anything visual)! It's a creative way to alter images, screenshots, etc. to what you need in your classroom or business. Jing is easy to download and is free. You will see a small sun appear on your desktop once the program has installed(it is PC and Mac friendly). This sun will act as your Jing home tool that will allow you to capture your images, videos, etc, edit them, view your saved images, and learn more about other tools and features with Jing.
There it is! My first Jing image. I wanted to combine my interest in teaching, action sports, and new-found appreciation and interest for technology. I want to find a way for my students to utilize user-friendly cameras to document their environment and build a project. While funding for the cameras is lacking, I figured I'd start here and show them an image of a SoMe form they've probably already seen-Instagram.
I watched a few tutorials provided by Jing, which were extremely basic and made me anxious to get started. This could definitely be one of my major problems with technology...I don't like waiting. I also can't stay focused long enough to listen to the whole video, which often leaves me blindsided. Needless to say, in order to create this screencast, I had to watch the video more than once. In order to link your Jing capture to your screencast site, you have to first create the image and save it to your computer. This part-easy. Then, go into your history on Jing(the automatically saved images) and you have to look for the button that looks like this.
Once you find that, the link will take you to your screencast site, which you will already have because you signed up for Jing. Convenient. Take a look at:
It is the same image, but there is more to learn on how to utilize screencast with Jing. You can allow viewers to comment on your image-which is a great option if you want to have coworkers add suggestions/collaborate to your project. I think Jing is a great tool for the classroom. I have also heard of webquests being a new opportunity to incorporate technology into independent leanring, but can they be combined? I think I'm going to do a little research and experimenting to find out.
I think Jing/Screencast provide tools for students to address their creativity while incorporating technology (ISTE 2a). This activity also allowed the user to explore the tools in a safe environment and provided us with a learner-centered activity (ISTE 4b).
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