Once again about Jing

It is my third time to hear about the screen capture software called Jing. This time with more excitement and thinking about how can it be used best in language teaching contexts.

Jing has an amazing feature that can help one to capture what he does on his screen. It is also clear that we do a lot of things on our desktop or laptop screen. Therefore, how about sharing all those relevant things that we do on our screen with other fellow professionals?

If we are ready to help, I think Jing can help us.

How to use Jing?

We can download the free program using google search. Then we see the shining sun like bar often on top of our screen. Then we are ready to use it.

Jing can allow us to record up to 5 minute for free. We love free!!!!!!

The following like has video to show us how can we use jing. Complements to the generosity of Russell Stannard once again  http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.html

Once we save our record. We only need to right click and pest a link. That is our video. The next step is to send it to whomever we want.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

 Wait a minute, I remember something. Jing helped us solve a problem while working another ICT input in my class called wordle. Having done a lot of things on wordle, we were not sure how can we post it to our blogs. A friend from class suggested Jing. Wow. That could be possible. Thank you Max!

Just do whatever you do and when it is time to share it with other from your screen Jing can be used.

How can we use Jing in language classroom?

The idea of giving and getting feedback is a big issue that I better wait to hear form senior people work on it such as Russell. However, I would like to make some comments on how can Jing be used in language classrooms. Jing can help as synchronise pictures and audio resources together. Therefore, we can produce a listening exercise. It can also have note taking activity involved with it.

Furthermore, we can integrate speaking and writing exercises.  We can encourage students to use Jing to record their speaking practice and exchange to each other for comments. The ease in exchanging the records between students makes Jing preferable.

Finally, it is often important to find out if there are other ICT inputs with similar or related function. This helps to figure out the special advantage of one over the other and efficiently use the existing resources.