Screencast-o-matic and Jing

I am not sure if these two sites are meant for me. I had much difficulty with both of them. However, I seemed to have more difficulty with Jing. When using Jing, I had to rerecord my Jing multiple times because I accidentlly clicked the X instead of the square. After the 12th time of recording, I finally got my Jing saved. However, I saved my Jing to my computer because it wouldn't let me post it on screen-o-matic or youtube. The site stated that there were no accounts for the email given. This I found odd because I had just created and used my screen-o-matic account the night before with the very same email I was trying to load the video to screen-o-matic with. The Jing video was not compatible with the programs that I presently had on my computer, so it would not let reopen it. I had to download two programs in order to open the Jing video. However, the Jing video had glitches so it had to be fixed. I had not saved the background image that I created to my computer before creating the video. Therefore,I had to open my saved recording and use the image to rerecorded Jing. Once I recompleted my second recording of my Jing over the same content, I was able to get a link which will not load on the blog (user must copy, cut, and paste link in Jing section of this blog). I will try both of these sites on another day when I am not so sick and tired from illness.

Screen-o-matic: I like how screen-o-matic is simple to use (until I had to save or publish) and doesn't have any icons that say in your way until they are closed like Jing did. Below you will see a screenshot of my screen-o-matic because I am unable to load it due to the video being saved in my documents.

Jing: The home page of this site includes a brief introduction video about Jing and how it can be used. I didn't have time to explore much before I started to create on Jing. However, when I started to create my image (I believe they called it a capture), I was unsure of what all was available or how to save. This site allowed me to create an image or video, so I used a screen clip from thinkcentral Go Math video and then used Jing to a three colored rectangles to type the steps into. Next I used the image and added my how to instructions as a video. Below is the link to my Jing video that I had to post (publish to) screencast. http://screencast.com/t/CeIk1YwAd Please copy, cut and paste link to view video. Sorry for any inconvenience.