It can be used to create a scrapbook of resources that can be posted on a web page or document that can be emailed. How can Jing help in a catechetical setting? Parish leaders, teachers and catechists can use it to create short videos to show parents how to register online for a program, or to show how to navigate a particular website. Note that he mentions you can also edit images and videos further by using another TechSmith product, SnagIt (not free.) Here is one of the better tutorials on how to use some of Jing’s basic features. You can access the ability to create a screen or video capture at any time by simply mousing over the yellow circle and choosing one of the smaller circle on the lower left to activate the cross-hairs that define your capture. It remains visible above your browser for instant accessibility. When you download and first open Jing, it will create a yellow-circle “sun” desktop widget that your can move wherever you want to on your desktop. You can view a brief “overview video” on the Jing page, which talks about some of the features. Jing, which you can find here, allows you to do many things – including creating up to a 5-minute video which can be saved to the free Screencast account that you set up when you first use Jing – or to your computer’s hard drive.

That makes it a great tool for sharing snapshots of web pages, marking up those images, creating scrapbooks, and more.

Jing is a free, versatile and simple screen capture tool that “lives” on your desktop – ready to capture anything on your screen, from images to video clips.

Jing screen capture