Jazz Up with Jing

Presented by Gail Brooks

What is Jing?

Jing is a free program provided by TechSmith (creators of Camtasia and SnagIt). This program allows you to easily communicate exactly what you have on your computer screen with either an annotated screen shot or a short video of your screen.

Here are some Jing examples my students and I have created...

Where do I get it?

Download at: www.jingproject.com

How do I create a Jing?

Look for the sun at the top of your computer click on the first little circle the cross hairs (+) this is called the “capture ball”.

1. Click the capture ball

2. Select an area to capture (do this by holding down the left click and creating a rectangular area to capture) then release the left click

3. This box should appear at the bottom of your rectangle:

4. If you want to capture just a screen shot click on the image button. If you want to make a video click on the video button. The videos are limited to 5 minutes and you will need a microphone to have audio.

5. If you create an image you can annotate it with the buttons on the left of the screen

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How do I share my Jing??? – Lots of ways look at the screen shot above…

1. Clicking on the first, second, or fourth button above will paste code to your clip board (your computers editing brain) and you will be able to paste that where you want…

a. The first button (good for video) will automatically send up your creation to your account on the screencast.com website and a url that you can email, post in blackboard, or on a blog, webpage, facebook note is posted to your computer’s clipboard.

b. The second button (also good for video) will give you embedding html code so the picture or video will show up automatically in your post…if you are in blackboard you will need to click on the <> symbol and paste in the code.

c. The fourth button will just do a copy of the image – I was able to post this directly in an email from school…apparently you might be able to copy it into some instant messaging programs as well – but I could not do it in facebook or pronto…it will paste into any office program this way

2. The save button will let you save it to your computer

3. Cancel will delete the file

Retrieving Videos from screencast.com

If you selected the first or second button after creation then your video is stored at your account www.screencast.com. You can login to this website and get the code to share your videos there.

Creation tips:

1. The temptation is to capture your entire screen – but that is the size that the end user will see (probably pretty big both visually and in terms of file size). Two options to help with this.

a. Float and resize your to a smaller size window by clicking on the button in the top right hand of your screen

then draw your Jing box around the floated window

b. Resize your computer screen to

2. There are lots of great tutorials at www.jingproject.com at the top right of the page there is a blog, FAQ, and techsupport with lots of great ideas.

3. Additional Video Tutorials I have made:

Installation problems:

Jing should download without a problem - might need to install .netFramework from Microsoft (I had to follow the link during the Jing attempt to install to the Microsoft website to get the program to install on my home computer)