Jing; Screen Capturing Tool:
What & Why to use it?
Jing is a very important tool that records your computer screen. Teachers then can sit down, relax, and show it to their learners in the classroom. You can also send an e-mail to your learners to highlight some important websites you want them to use, assign homework, or give them a presentation on vocabulary, grammar, or any other language focus.
How to use it?
First go to techsmith.com, and then you’ll find Jing. Press download and you get it for free!!!!
Once you have downloaded it, a small sun will appear at the top of your screen and you can press on the capture button to start your screen capturing. In the free edition, you are only allowed to record for 5 minutes at a time.
As soon as you finish recording you can press the screencast button to get the URL and send it to your students or simply paste it in your search engine to get your recording. You can also save it on your laptop or PC to view it later. Instead of wasting time repeating presentations, you can do it once here and save it forever!!!!!! Go now and give it a stab!!!!
If you press this link it will show you how I used Jing to explain the use of another important tool called BBC Country Profiles.
Linitations:
The only limitation for this tool is that it only allows teachers or learners to record themselves for 5 minutes, but time limitations encourage them to be efficient and succinct!!!!!!!
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