Jing Screencast

Today, I used Jing to create a digital movie without using a camera.  Jing is very intuitive to use and after fumbling with it 3 or 4 times I was able to create a usable lesson for my classroom.  One of the more difficult tasks we do in my Microsoft Office class is to create a mail merge.  We generally create individualized party invitations and address labels for our project.

Using Jing screencast was very easy.  Once you open the program you select the piece of screen you want to share.  After doing this once, my advice to you would be to select a larger piece of the screen that you think you will need.  Also, collect your thoughts before you start.  There is a 5 minute time limit for the movie.

Jing has 3 prongs.  The first prong lets you capture the portion of the screen you want to use.  The second prong is your history.  Its sort of like a folder with all screencasts in one spot.  I am hoping that we will be allowed to create folders with in the history prong.  The third prong allows you to exit Jing, get help and to set your preferences. The screen capture was saved to my pictures as an SWF file and to the history section of Jing.  I was able to upload it and in return received a URL that I can now share with anyone.

I think I might start making some of these for my wife so she doesn't keep on asking me the same question over and over again. I could never be an adult educator

Mail Merge Screencast










ISTE Standards 2 and 3.  We created a digital learning experience for our student AND also modeled modeled digital age work in a professional environment