Hey everyone, this week I explored a screencast tool called Jing! Before we get into Jing and what its all about, you may want to know what a screencast is. A screencast is described in detail in this blog. It is defined to be "typically a short video recordings of what is taking place on the screen of your desktop computer or laptop" according to edTechTeacher. Screencasts are used mainly for making a tutorial or a guide of some kind. Jing is a very popular screencast software that is free to use! It can capture a video of what you are doing on your screen or it can take a picture of what is displayed on your screen. I think tools like Jing are great for my digital learning for several reasons. One of the main reasons is that it is easier for me and many people to learn by watching something being done then reading or listening to instructions. Having that visual guide is great for many learners to catch on in the digital world. For example, if you want to show someone how to make a twitter account and use it effectively, it can take hundreds of words. But if you used a screencast tool like Jing, you can show them how to do it matters of minutes. Best of all, you can add an audio aspect to the video to make it even more understandable and easy to follow. So to summarize, Screencast tools like Jing helps enhance my digital literacy learning experience by making it easier to improve my digital literacy. That is, it helps me learn about digital tools faster and more comprehensively. Also, it can help me maintain my digital responsibility by crediting others in my videos when appropriate and also being respectful in my videos to my viewers.
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