Yes, I love it! Why do I love it? I teach a Foundations of Online Learning class and many students have no experience with the many technological facets of an online course. Differential learners need differential modes. A list or detailed instructions help many but those visual learners love to “See it”. Jing allows the learner to see a short video of a process such as posting to a discussion board. Audio can be another component of the video.
Capture a snapshot of your screen, capture video of onscreen "action: then share, save, IM, email.
Rogers(2003) writes about why people adopt certain innovations in Diffusions of Innovations and I easily see why Jing is adopted by many. It’s “relative advantages” (Rogers, 2003) are that it is free, professional, not overused (yet), it is compatible with my technological skills, meets my need, easy to download, easy to use, easy to demo and I have seen it used in other classes.
The Home page of Jing states these features:
A few ways to use Jing
Collaborate on a design project
Share a snapshot of a document
Narrate your vacation photos
Capture that pesky bug in action
Show Dad how to use iTunes
Comment verbally on students' homework
Collect cool web designs or funny ads
Post tidbits from your life on Twitter or Facebook
Bummer though, I tried to simply paste from my clipboard my recently made video,as directed by the site, but this site does not recognize (?)accept .swf as a plug in...Could be me? ( I had to update my Adobe Macroflash) now it works
Okay, so here is a funny little demo (<30 secs) just trying out the Jing a ma Jig...how fun, (demo not to be used for anything, just an attempt/play demo with Jing)
http://www.screencast.com/users/jkawkaw/folders/Jing/media/b0c875f6-3b24-4244-8413-668e5e41c5d7
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