Jing

Jing. This is my first experience with Jing, not only have I never heard of it but I have never seen anything quite like it.
It's a free technlogy that you download and use your gmail address and password to get access. It is a screen capture device that can be used live. Jing takes pictures (screen captures) and video captures of up to five minutes. Although I liked Jing and found it pretty interesting to play with I would not say it is one of my favourite technologies. It was fairly simple to use but now that my video is on my blog, it takes a long time to buffer.

I believe Jing would be a handy classroom tool as you could make videos of some kind of instuctions on the desktop then each child could look at them and refer to them whenever they wanted. What I did notice from my prac, is that the school's network was very slow so if Jing's videos are already slow to buffer it would be an unjustified amount of time before it was complete.
And as for screen capture, I can already do this without Jing. Though I did like how you could change the size and postion of the screen capture, when I do a normal screen capture I have to paste the capture to an empty paint screen to be able to cut the part out I require. Jing would save my time in this case.
Jing is fun and new to me, I can see my self using it to assist with easy screen capture.