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1 THE JING PROJECT! HUWWW.JINGPROJECT.COMUHU In this handout you will learn About the Jing Project View some Jings Produce a Jing or two Plan how to use Jing in your classroom! Quick Tips Hide Internet Explorer s tool bar by pressing the F11 function key. Press F11 again to reveal the tool bar. Ways to paste: Ctrl + V Right click > Paste From the menu bar, Edit > Paste Ctrl + Z to undo Ctrl + Y to redo You cannot undo or redo after a capture has been shared. What you select is exactly what viewers see. Sharing your capture will close your preview window. To open the capture to edit, share, or save again, double-click on the thumbnail in your History.

2 What in the World is it??? The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video from your computer to anywhere. Hwww.jingproject.com Watch and Listen!... Go to > scroll down to Website Location Go to HUwww.jingproject.comU & click Video tour. Click Download See last page of this handout for an over-view. USELECT SOMETHING TO CAPTURE Posted on Friday July 27, 2007 by HUMatt DyerUH When capturing something with Jing, the first step is to select an area of your screen. Jing automatically selects your entire desktop or snaps to a particular window as you mouseover it. You can also click and drag to select an area. After you've selected a region, you have two options for changing what's been selected. Click and drag inside the selection frame to move it around. You can also mouse-over the edge to resize the frame. Resource (Jing video without audio): HUhttp://blog.jingproject.com/2007/07/select_something_to_capture_1.htmlU - 2 of 8

3 UIMAGES HUhttp://blog.jingproject.com/2007/07/sharing_images_with_jing.htmlU Here are some other things to keep in mind about images and Jing: While editing, you can undo using Ctrl+Z on the PC and Command+Z on the Mac. To redo, use Ctrl+Y on the PC and Shift+Command+Z on the Mac. What you select is exactly what viewers see. Images are saved in the lossless PNG format and are not resized. Sharing your capture will close your preview window. To open the capture to edit, share, or save again, double-click on the thumbnail in your History. You cannot undo or redo after a capture has been shared. - 3 of 8

4 0B0B0BUVIDEO HUhttp://blog.jingproject.com/2007/07/recording_video_with_jing.htmlU Here's some things to keep in mind when recording videos with Jing: Jing records to the SWF format at 10 FPS and has its own built-in play controls. SWF is a lossless format, so a large selection area means a larger file. Jing records its audio from your microphone. There is a 5 minute limit for recording video. The timer on the record panel counts down from 60 seconds after 4 minutes have elapsed, so you know exactly how much time you have left. Keep your audience in mind. The shorter the recording, the smaller the download. Don't worry about making a perfect recording. Just think of it as sending a video voic of 8

5 UHISTORY 101: MANAGING YOUR STUFF Posted on Tuesday July 24, 2007 by HUMatt DyerUH Anytime you Share or Embed with Jing, a copy is stored in your History. From the History, captures can be shared, opened, or deleted. If you share an item already on Screencast.com from your History, you aren't using up more storage space. Jing checks and if the file is already uploaded, it gets the URL and copies it to your Clipboard. Items saved locally appear in your History, but any changes you make from the History don't affect your saved copy. Double-click an item to open and edit (for images) or preview (for video). You can add new annotations to an image, but doing so creates a new entry in your History. If you're not connected to the Internet or Jing can't upload to Screencast.com, your capture is sent to the History. HUHUhttp://blog.jingproject.com/2007/07/history_101_managing_your_stuf_1.htmlUH - 5 of 8

6 UNDO - THE "HIDDEN" FEATURE IN JING Posted on Tuesday August 7, 2007 by HUTony DunckelUH Many of you have been asking for the ability to undo an arrow, a highlight or even a text entry when editing an image in Jing. If you are running Jing on a Mac, you do have the ability to reselect any previous edit and manually delete or change it. However, due to some constraints in our development time line, we deferred that capability on the Windows platform in order to get Jing out to all of you that much faster. Of course, you all miss that feature a lot, right? -Presumably so. Well, we hear you on that one loud and clear. :-) To help with things today, we can at least offer you a keyboard shortcut to "undo" anything in the editor you have already created. For Windows users click the key combination "Ctrl + z", for Mac users click "Cmd + z" to undo an edit. It also has multiple undo, so you can keep "undoing" all the way back to the base image, if you so desire. Watch a quick Jing video of this in action at HUhttp:// Oh by the way, you can also "redo" something you "undid" by pressing "Ctrl + y" on Windows and "Cmd + Shift + z" on the Mac. Keep in mind; once an image is shared or saved, the edits previously made cannot be undone or redone. While this solution may not seem optimal, it will at least give you an option to fix those "oops!" moments for now. HUhttp://blog.jingproject.com/2007/08/undo_the_hidden_feature_in_jin_1.htmlU - 6 of 8

7 For those who want to know Jing File formats - Flash (.swf) &.png Posted on Thursday August 2, 2007 by HUTony DunckelUH HUhttp://blog.jingproject.com/2007/08/jing_file_formats_flash_swf_pn.htmlU We have seen several inquiries about the file formats we are supporting in Jing. Many of you have indicated that the number of formats supported may be insufficient for your individual uses and that the choice to use.swf format for videos seems limiting in some cases. I wanted to get more feedback specifically regarding this topic, so it seemed appropriate to comment here and see what everyone thinks. So to begin all this, I need to reiterate that our purpose for creating Jing was all about quick, simple and seamless sharing of images and videos in your daily conversations on IM, and blogs. Keeping with that mantra, we wanted to eliminate any unnecessary decisions the user would have to make about file type, video codec, audio compression and all the other processing steps typically required to create and upload media for easy sharing. As to.png, we've learned a lot over the years developing SnagIt that.png is almost always the best format to use for screen capture related content. Its perfect quality ensures that your viewers see exactly what you see - nothing less. Plus, its file compression provides files sizes much more in line with the expectations created by.jpg and.gif. Together these attributes typically provide the best of both worlds in terms of quality and file size. As for using Flash (.swf) as the format for Jing videos, several things played into that decision. Most importantly, we wanted Jing videos to be viewable by anyone regardless of what type of computer you were using. Using.wmv or.mov seemed to provide advantages to one platform or another and since daily conversations occur across all platforms it seemed prudent to stay platform agnostic. Why not use.flv? you ask. Good question. Our intention, still to be proven right, wrong or somewhere in the middle, was to provide a cost effective solution for improving daily conversations. The concept of using things like.flv and even.mp3 audio all carry per user licensing fees that would have driven up the potential cost of a product like Jing. We felt strongly that for Jing to become a disruptive technology that really made a difference, it would need wide spread adoption (the idea that communication improves exponentially when all members are speaking visually). So, when considering all of those factors,.swf seemed the logical choice. Does.swf have its shortcomings? Absolutely. Probably the most concerning is its lack of default association with a standard application like the browser. That being said, to make the process of capturing, uploading, sharing and viewing completely seamless to both the author and the viewer of the content, we have to manage a few of the variables for it all to work. Are.png and.swf the only formats we ll support? We are waiting to see how everyone makes use of Jing content before making that decision. In the mean time, we are taking in all the feedback you can dish out, so what's your take? - 7 of 8

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