Edtechkat

Techsmith, who make SnagIt and Camtasia also run the Jing project.

This is a piece of free software to make quick ‘n’ dirty screencasts or screenshots. You need to download it to your computer from here, Jing Project. It interfaces with the screencast storage site screencast.com , so that you can automatically upload the screencast and then embed it or give a permanent URL to someone.

I can see it having a lot of uses, especially on service desks where it is hard to describe something, but easy to show it. You could very easily make a quick screencast and upload it while you were talking to somone online or on the phone.

Here’s an example I made showing how to reload jstor.com via the proxy simply by right clicking on the page. Well, I was going to embed it, but forgot that wordpress.com who hosts the blog disallows this kind of embedding.

Here’s the URL to it: http://www.screencast.com/t/JObJh93zfy