Jing Screencast

I love Jing Screencast - it will be so helpful for training my students on the procedures for the Apple Federal Credit Union Student Run Branch.  The screencast I created was to teach the branch managers the procedures on how to do the bag tracker:  AFCU SR Branch Bag Tracker Video  This task has to be completed every day at the end of the last lunch shift and the school credit union is open every day during all lunch shift.  Using Jing I was quickly able to create a video (digital movie) that I will be able to use and save myself lots of time. Creating a digital movie without a digital camera is a cinch using the Jing.

Jing is fairly easy to use.  After installing Jing the Jing 'Sun' appears on your screen with three prongs. The first prong captures the image (screen), the second is history of all video and screen captures you created, and the third is more for more information about Jing. The more button allows you to access help as well as customize Jing. Once you click on the first prong, capture you can "capture" any portion or all of your screen and then you have the option to capture is as a screen image or a video.  If you select video you can get all your steps of your cursor and add video to create a how to tutorial - pretty nifty tool for a teacher!  The capture is then saved to your computer (videos as SWF file, screen captures as png files)  and/or to screencast.com.  The later allows you to share your image or video.

iste-nets-standards:  3 Model Digital-Age Work and Learning.  Jing allows me to teach my students a task that they may forget how to do and now have the option to quickly pull up the video and get a quick refresher.  Jing video capture is a great way to communicate information effectively to all audiences of a teacher: students, parents, and even administration!  The only problem in the classroom is the lack of technology. When oh when is LCPS going to get on board and provide technology to all high school students (for starters).