Jing

What is JIng?
Jing is a visual communication program that instantly captures and shares images and video ("screencasts” with narration) with others from your computer to anywhere.

How **teachers** might use Jing

 * Collaborate on a design project
 * Share a snapshot of a document
 * Comment on students' homework
 * Improve understanding, clarity, efficiency of instruction
 * Give feedback to students as you record their digital assignment.
 * Capture images from the web and copy them into your handouts.
 * Make impromptu “how-to” videos for parents to explain school-related online resources.
 * Make instructional reference videos for colleagues—like how to access the new grading system.
 * Make quick guides to help students in the computer lab. Put a series of images with annotations into Microsoft Word and print out the handouts.
 * Record educational websites that have exercises for students who might need a little extra help. Show them where to go and what you’d like them to do.
 * Capture an image or make a video of a portion of exemplary student work and give it to the class.


 * Student Use**
 * Assign a weekly “reporter” to make a video of the week’s happenings for the Friday newsletter.
 * Explain a concept to prove you understand it.
 * Show why one website is a better reference than another.
 * Capture and annotate an image for your digital portfolio.
 * Record a question about what you’re working on for the teacher.

How Jing accounts work

 * Every Jing user must have a free [|Screencast.com] account. Screencast.com is the “back end” to Jing. ([|Learn more].)
 * Since Jing requires a valid email address, it can create challenges for letting students use Jing at school. Currently TechSmith does not have an alternative.