Jing

Jing Basics

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Jing is a desktop video program that allows you display what is on your screen and do a voice over at the same time. There is a one minute introductory video at
http://blog.jingproject.com/assets-jing/gettingstarted/index.html
You will notice from the video that Jing also captures still images, but it is the video that is really powerful.
Jing videos have several [...]

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An Easy Way to Embed Jing Desktop Videos

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

When 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 [...]

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Building Critical Thinking Skills with Graphs

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

One of the Quantitative Reasoning Outcomes for Integrated Quantitative Learning coursesĀ  is that students should be able to analyze, summarize, and interpret quantitative data and effectively communicate the findings.
One way to achieve that outcome is to have students practice interpreting data. Possible assignments include:

Giving students a good graph or a poor graph and ask them [...]

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