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.

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.