Thanks for sharing some of the fun ways you use Jing. We had some chuckles over here.
Good news for those that shared in that the number of people who shared equals the number of shirts we're giving out. I guess that saves Anton and I from having to do a raffle and share bad news. We'll be in contact shortly to get your address and desired shirt size.
We'll try another fun activity next week--stay tuned!
I had to pull out something important from my
That said, here are some examples of some funny Jings I've seen lately.
- Here's the one I use for when I need to express my approval: http://www.screencast.com/t/lh2dLB7ymMQ
- Don't even ask, I don't know what this is: http://screencast.com/t/Yjk1ZmE0
- Space bumper sticker? http://screencast.com/t/MmFhYWRhNTIt
- You can do videos too, don't forget! http://screencast.com/t/2OmoEPhX
Do you have a Jing or two in your History that shows a lighter side?
Well, we have 5 Jing shirts in need of good homes! (Large and XL only--sorry!)
- Post your fun Jings in the Comments.
- Do it by Thursday March 11, 2010.
- We'll randomly pick 5 winners post the results on Friday.
Note: Use your real email address when you submit a comment because that's how we'll get in touch with you if we need to ship you a shirt.
This article is cross-posted from the Visual Lounge, the official TechSmith blog. Every week, a new user-created screencast is featured. Thanks for the great post, Betsy!
This week's Screencast of the Week is actually a series of Jing videos (Jingcasts) from introNetworks! You can see all the videos here. I liked these Jingcasts - they're quick, personal (introNetworks CEO, Mark Sylvester, introduces himself in the Jingcast) and, I like Mark's new slang word - 'Jingspeak'!
I asked Mark about his experience using Jing and here's what I heard from him:
Jing = EASY as anything I have ever used. We use it EVERYDAY. I love the interface on my Mac and because it is so simple I tend to think in Jingspeak - meaning, can I do something in 1 min on Jing that would take 5 min in an email, answer is usually yes! Using it to show clients and prospects the nuances of our platform in bite sized chunks of five min has been incredibly effective.
Any nominations for next week's Screencast of the Week? If so, then please leave a comment on the Visual Lounge. Thanks!
The other day, we sat down with the original founders of Jing - that core team of developers and designers - and asked them:
How did Jing get its name?
They proceeded to have a jolly little discussion and it turns out that Jing had many names in its life. Kamikaze, Arcturus and Orange Crush were just some of them.
What do you think of the video?
Do you like the name Jing, or should we have named Jing something else?
I hope you enjoyed this little video as much as I did. I'd also like to point that Mike, Alan and Tony are not the only ones who were working on Jing back then and we'll be featuring some of the other founders in later video posts.
Betsy, from TechSmith's Visual Lounge sat down with Dirk (Product manager of Jing and Screencast.com) and asked him some questions about his background, various TechSmith roles and ... she brought up Jing's five minute video limit.
I thought you'd like to hear about this interview, and you can post comments to this post or send it to us directly.
Cross-posted from: Academic Technology @ Keene State College. Thanks to Judy Brophy for this great article.
Let's imagine that you're correcting a student paper and you note an error. You wish your student was right there so you could just talk briefly to her... but you can't, so you pick up your pen and start to write in the margin. You note her mistake and ask a few probing questions to try and help her for her next version of her draft.
STOP! You can provide meaningful auditory feedback to your student by using Jing desktop video tool. You can record your comments (you will need an external microphone or your computer must have a built in microphone) and upload the video with one click. Your student will get her paper with a url embedded as a comment near the the area that needs attention. Now she can hear your feedback in the context of the problem.
Jim Glading, adjunct professor at Southern NH University and Daniel Webster College used a Jing video to give feedback to a student who needed help with a citation for a paper.
Read the rest of the article and watch the video interview with Jim Glading here.
If you're reading this, you probably have a really good handle on how to use Jing.
But can you think back to when you first installed it? Did you even see the Sun launcher? What in the world is that yellow orb thing? Did you capture an image or video and wonder what's next?
We created an interactive, Flash-based tutorial. We'll get this into Jing for the next release, but we wanted people to try it right away. Do you think this would be helpful to new users? We're hoping to get some feedback and we encourage you to send it to others.
Why did we make this tutorial?
We know a few things. We know a lot of people can be confused by the non-traditional UI, and don't "get" the idea of sharing content via a Screencast.com link.
We also know that once people have that first successful share, they tend to get Jing and from then on, it's pretty easy.
This tutorial then, is just one more way to try and help people get off to a good start with a successful capture! We hope it works!
For this next release, we will be addressing some of our top feature requests from you. Among the improvements on tap is Facebook integration.
We've asked for feedback before, but this time, let's do something different.
We want to invite you to be a part of the Jing team. Well, as much as possible.
Most of you reading this are regular Jing users. Our guess is a lot of you also use Facebook.
Seems almost too logical then... If Jing is going to work with Facebook, and we have people who use Jing and Facebook, it seems we should work together to learn what people really want and nail this feature.
We revamped Jing's Facebook page, started a discussion and we hope people will talk with each other, and not just at us. To facilitate, we're going to be posting a lot of behind-the-scenes videos, demos of our progress and post specific questions which we hope will spawn some good discussion and debate. We hope some of you will take us up on it.
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