JingEasy Screen Recording

Patrick Lowenthal | patrick.lowenthal@ucdenver.edu Anna Thai | anna.thai@ucdenver.edu

Agenda

1. What is Jing & Screencast?

2. What’s it cost?

3. How to get Jing

4. How to create a screen capture

5. How to share a screen capture

6. How to create a screencast

7. How to share screencast

8. Additional things about Jing

9. How to use this in your courses

What is Jing?

http://video.techsmith.com/jing/2.1/overview/default.html

What is Screencast?

What is Screencast?

http://tinyurl.com/moreaboutscreencast

Jing + Screencast

What’s it Cost?

Application Cost Notes

Jing Free -5 min. limit-can’t edit

Jing Pro $14.95/yr -5 min. limit-Webcam option-Better/smaller video-Upload to YouTube-mp4 format can be edited

Screencast Free -2GB Storage / 2GB monthly bandwidth

Screencast Pro $9.95/month

or $99.95/yr

-25GB Storage / 200GB monthly bandwidth

Activity 1 – Get Jing

Step 1: Download Jing - www.jingproject.com

Step 2: Install Jing

Step 3: Setup Screencast Account

Step 4: Start Jing

Take a Screen Capture

Step 1. Mouse over the Jing sun & click capture

Step 2. Click & Drag cursor around what you want to capture.

Step 3. Click on the “Capture image”

Annotate Screen Capture

Step 4. Annotate your screen capture with the comment / drawing tools

Share a Screen Capture

Step 5: Upload to screencast, save it to your computer or copy it to paste somewhere

Activity 2 – Take a Screen Capture

Using the job aid provided, take five minutes and use jing to create a screen capture.

Create a Screencast

Before you begin, you will need:• Quiet environment to record• A microphone (preferably a usb headset mic)•A webcam if you have the pro version of Jing

Create a Screencast

Step 1. Mouse over the Jing sun & click capture

Step 2. Click & Drag cursor around what you want to capture.

Step 3. Click “Capture video”

Create a Screencast

Step 4. Wait for the count down to begin speaking & recording your mouse movement

Step 5. Click stop when you are finished recording.

Share a Screencast

Step 6. Preview recording

Step 7. Name it

Step 8. Upload to screencast or save it to your computer

Activity 3 – Record a Screencast

Using the job aid provided, take 15 minutes to create a screencast (with or without audio)

Educational Uses of Jing

1. Record lectures

2. Record announcements

3. Record audio/video feedback to students

4. Introduce each week and/or assignments

5. ______________________________

Need Help w/ Jing?

http://help.jingproject.com/

Need Help w/ Screencast?

http://www.screencast.com/help/

Thanks for Joining Us

Evaluationhttp://tinyurl.com/jingevalcuonline

Patrick Lowenthalpatrick.lowenthal@ucdenver.edu