Thing #38: Screencasting

For this Thing, I used Jing. I was eager to try this Thing, because we do want to produce some screencasts for our Web page and for our distance learners. I'd heard Jing was really easy and worked well, so that's the one I chose.

I found it a little tricky, but that may just be me and my clunky tech skills. For example, it took me a while to figure out how to use the arrow, because I was trying to "drag" it. I never did figure out how to get the Text feature to work. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm neglecting to do.

It looks like you can't edit screens once you save them, which is unfortunate, but oh, well.

I produced this two-screen image capture demonstrating 1) the way to find the DCTC Library page from the main DCTC page, and 2) where to find the useful links (MnPALS catalog, Ebsco for articles, chat screen.)

It's a start! I wanted to start off simply, with images. But in the future I'm going to try a video.

P.S. Uh-oh -- in viewing my published post, I see the screens are too big. I'm sure there's a way to resize them, and at some point, I'll figure out how to do that. But I've spent a long time on this Thing and must move along.