Jing

Jing is a tool which allows you to capture a image or a video and to add your voice instruction over it. You need to download it but it's free of charge.

This is useful when you want to show Internet pages, videos or any documents with your voice guidance. Unlike my brainshark, it doesn't allow you to put your voice instruction slide by slide or page by page, but once you select the area you would like to capture, you can go any pages or sites. It keeps recording the pages and your voice unless you stop recording.

I tried capturing a Youtube video and adding my voice over it. Below is one of the famous scenes from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

I recorded my voice over this video using Jing. Once I finish recording, Jing sends me a link of the page where the the video with my voice is found.

http://screencast.com/t/dO1BdtLe

I can send this link to whoever I would like to share with the video.

I should know more about how Jing works and what it can do. I think it would be better it could allow us to see the original video and the video with our voice. Or maybe any possibilities to embed the voice-added-video on Blogger??


Here is the link to Jing.

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

This is the link to the training video provided by Russell Stannard.

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/screen-casting/jing.html

Embedding Youtube videos on Blogger

There are a lot of interesting and motivating videos on Youtube. You can embed videos on Blogger. This allows you to invite your learners to your blog page and provide them with an equal opportunity to look at what you would like to show them.

Of course you can create your own videos or lecture sites with different tools, however, sometimes it is simple and helpful to introduce already made videos.

Embedding Youtube videos is very easy.

On Compose page, click "Insert a video"and choose "From Youtube" and type key words. That will bring you the video you are looking for. Just click on the video you would like to upload and press "Select".

I tried with a trailer of Les Miserables-The Musical, as this is my favourite musical. The novel is also great by the way...

Here is the video from Youtube.

It is always problematic that learners, especially the young or teenagers, will be exposed to inappropriate videos or contents on Youtube. It would be better if students as well as parents could have opportunities to know about the dangers/traps of the Internet.