Screencasting Using Jing

Screencasting has become a useful tool when it comes to creating online tutorials by allowing users to capture any given computer screen and add multimedia features.

The Jing Project provides an

always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere, at no charge.

In addition to recording video with audio, it allows users to take photos of any portion of your desktop and draw on it, add text, and immediately upload, save or copy. Jing also provides a unique URL that you can then use to share the image or video and is compatible with both Macs and Windows machines.

Please visit the Jing Project website at www.jingproject.com for additional information or to download for free.

MLA is providing short courses on emerging online tools, which can be viewed on the Dip Deeper with Social Media blog at: http://sns.mlanet.org/snsce_advanced.    This week’s assignment was to use Jing and create our vey own tutorial.  Here is my attempt at screencasting using nothing more–or less–than Jing and an old computer mic:

This was a fun experience, although making it through one cut without making a mistake was very difficult.  This is one of the major faults with Jing’s free version.  Although you can pause a recording–which has a slight delay–there is no way to edit more than one clip togeather.  This however, seem very minor when compared to the overall usefullness and user-friendliness of this product.  So go ahead and give it a try!