Capture your screen and share it instantly for free--Jing Program

 

What is this?

Jing is a free software to capture your screen and make a narrative video with it. Jing can record and show everything you do on the screen.

How to use it ?

This video is an introduction of how to use Jing effectively from youtube. Hopefully, you can have a brief overview of the usage.  

The advantages of Jing

• The user can capture a window or a region just by clicking sun like coin button.
• The user can add their voice, edit texts and then make a short video while showing the screen of his or her computer.

• The user can share it or send it to others instantly after he or she finishes.

• Jing provides a storage place for free where you can save your video forever.Then Jing send you back the URL of the video for your reference. 

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

• Teacher can use Jing to record the feedback of students' writing or English exams.
• Students can ask questions about their online English studying outside the class. For example students can ask questions about vocabulary and grammar when they are reading English news online. Then teacher can send the explanation back to students also by Jing in an efficient way.
• Students can use Jing to dub of interesting movies to practice their oral English skills, and then send it to their teacher for evaluation.
• Students can describe an object by speaking English as well as show the features of the object on screen.
• Teachers can save the students' performance and put it in their portfolio to monitor their English skills progress and adjust teachers' lesson plan accordingly.

Limitations

• Jing videos are only limited to five minutes.
• It will take a long time for teachers to give feedback on individuals' work.
• The application of this technology requires internet and computer access.