"Jing is free software that adds visuals to your online conversations." That is the tag line for Jing on its website: http://www.jingproject.com/. With Jing, one can capture a screen, record a five-minute or less narrated screencast, and publish the resulting video through e-mail, instant messenger, or even Jing's own free sharing site - screencast.com. The free software creates an .swf file that is instantly accessible.
One can also subscribe (cloud computing?) to Jing Pro for $14.95/year. The Pro edition will also produce mpeg-4 video suitable for sharing on You Tube. The product is easy to use and comes with some great videos to get the user started.
Like with any presentation product, one should spend a few minutes before creating the video to plan, jot down some notes, and practice the screencast and narration before actually creating the screencast. It is possible to pause the screencast, restart, or cancel. The screencast that I created demonstrated how to set release criteria in Blackboard CE8. To view the video, click on the following link: Setting Release Criteria. This proved to be so much fun that I later created another demonstration on how to incorporate a RSS feed on the home page in a Blackboard CE8 course.
Jing is a terrific product that I strongly recommend to anyone who is planning to create video content for their online course.
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