There are times as teachers when you wish you could simply record what you’re doing on the screen with your voice a narrative and show it to the students. This way you don’t have to continually repeat yourself and can then direct your students to the video of you giving directions. Jing, a screen capturing program, allows user to do this. After you are done recording, you can save your video right to your computer or save it to an online storage site (www.screencast.com).
Overall, I know that Jing is one of the most popular screen capturing devices. It allows the user to simply capture a particular part of the screen, rather than the entire screen itself. Finally, the clarity
The only downfall of this program is that it sometimes saves files the in a .swf (?). This is an odd file extension and some people, like students in the class, had a difficult viewing the file.
Jeffrey Fisher 