An Easy Way to Embed Jing Desktop Videos
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010When you use the Screencast button in Jing you are returned a url which you can paste anywhere. However, sometimes you want to embed the video in your blog, website or BlackBoard. Here’s how. First create a button in Jing to return the code you need. Then use the code.
Create an Embed button in your Jing account
Click on the Jing sun and choose the third button labeled MORE.
On the round menu that appears, choose Preferences. It looks like gears.
From the Preferences menu, choose Customize:
On the Customize Jing Buttons menu, click NEW.
On the Button Settings:
Click Close.
On the next screen, click Finish.
Now when you create a video you will have a second screencast button. The second one is labeled EMBED when you cursor over it.
Use the Embed Button
Create your screencast and click the Stop button. Choose the Embed button by clicking on it.
Your screencast will upload and you will receive a message telling you that the embed code is ready on your clipboard. You can insert it in your blog or webpage.
Put it in BlackBoard
Log on to BlackBoard.
Note to Mac users: in order see the Toggle HTML button you must use FireFox as your browser when you log on to BlackBoard. If you use Safari, you won’t have this functionality available.
In a Content Item:
· Click Add Item
· Give your item a name
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Click the Toggle HTML Source Mode icon
· Paste the embed code that you have on your clipboard using either the paste icon or Control/V. Here’s how it will look in BlackBoard.
