The world is becoming more accustomed to communicating and collaborating through technology. The more applications created to help this collaborative process the better. We have products like Skype to communicate via phone or video, instant messaging for quick conversation, and blogs, wikis and forums for group collaboration. What if you want to show someone how to do something through screen capture and video? Well, let me introduce you to Jing. Jing is an open source free screen capture application. Not only does Jing make sharing screen images easy but also allows video screen shot recordings (very similar to Camtasia but free at the moment.)
This feature can act as an enhancement to chat conversations, blog posts and threaded discussions by a few point and clicks. The unique sunshine icon sits on your desk top for easy and practical use. Once the screen shot is taken, Jing creates a link to copy and then you can paste it into your conversation so the other person can see what you did. If only show and tell was always this easy.
If you also communicate over the web, I am sure you can see the many ways this tool can be utilized. There are still some kinks to be worked out like no editing features and not being able to upload your video recording for a larger audience, so not really good for training tutorials. Keep in mind this is still in the development stages so feedback is encouraged.
Big thanks to Jeff Vandrimmelen of Edutechie.com for blogging about this great new software. Check out Edutechie.com for some great conversation on this product.
Megan
Jing is not actually Open Source. It is proprietary commercial code. Great post
Hi Travis,
Thanks for making me aware of this. I should have known better! I appreciate the feed back, thanks for the comment.
Megan