Jing a Ling a Ling

I have spent the last three days working with Jing.  As in my previous post, Jing is a neat screen capture tool where a user can add notations to the captured screenshot.  Recently I have tried out the video capturing tool.  This is just as simple to use.  Jing puts a little "Sun" on the screen around the border.

Jing Sun

This sun is movable.  It got in my way and I just clicked on it and moved it over.  If you mouse over the sun, 3 prongs appear.  The left prong is for picking your screen shot, the center prong is for your history and the right prong is settings, closing the application and other things.

To capture my video, I selected the the cross hairs or the left prong.  From there I selected the size of my screen capture and selected the movie option.  The microphone automatically turned on and I was given 3 seconds to prepare.   So after 10 tries, I finally got something usable.  Not that the movie is all that great, but it is better than the original one.  You can check out my video here.  I tried to embed the video, but since we are playing with flash, I had to google for the the html code.  After about 5 tries with different yet similar codes - I give up.  I guess if I really need to embed the video, I could spend a few hours on it, but who's got time for that?

As always we must investigate what ISTE-NETS-T standards apply to this little lesson.  Standard 2:  Design and Develop Digital Age learning Experiences and Assessments is the standard that is applicable to let application.  Using editable videos is a technological sound way to teach a lesson.  Bright colors and fast moving content should captivate students and hold their attention while bringing relevant content to the classroom.

As for the embedding thing, it is really getting on my nerves.  I'm going to figure this one out, but I'm outta here for now.

Happy Father's Day!