Fast. Fun. Easy. Add Visual Elements to all your Online Conversations

By: Bridget Purdy

What is Jing? A free application that can be downloaded to

Windows or Mac computer

Enables you to take screen captures and annotate

these static images of your computer screen

Enables you to record short videos ( minutes or

less) of onscreen action

Share instantly with others through –whether over

the internet, in instant messages, email or

embedded in your online course shell

Jing Makes: Explaining Ideas Giving Feedback Collaborating on Projects Sharing Information

Easier

Getting Started: Download from jingproject.com

homepage and install

Jing/Screencast.com Account

Must setup Screencast.com account to use Jing

Student Uses for Jing

Record a narrated historical Journey or science experiment

Record themselves solving math problems

Use as a digital story telling tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mni4z12jwNI&feature=player_embedded Pronounce and define key

vocabulary

Teacher Uses for Jing Create tutorials for working with new

technologies Demonstrate how to access your class Blog,

Wiki or Edomodo for parents or students Create screencasts to publish students works

and copy to class blog Create a lesson and have students show

examples Demonstrate how to edit handwriting http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upyj9jUFW_A&feature=player_embedded

Model a “think aloud” reading technique

Jing