Example of "Jing" Web 2.0 Creativity Tool

Here is an example of Jing application. 

I like to present a particular learning management system (LMS) to faculty members who are new to the system, but want to write an online course themselves using the LMS. The presentation will provide them with an overview of the LMS so that they understand what features are offered, thus they can create a lesson plan for the LMS. Jing could be a good Web 2.0 tool for this purpose. Explanations are given in double brackets. Only the first part of this presentation is prepared for the purpose of Jing example.

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Dear Faculty members, 


Welcome to online course development!
This short blog presentation will walk you through the Learning Management System (LMS) that you're going to use to create your online courses. More detailed face-to-face discussions will follow. I will be available through your entire online course development process.


The example course is English 1301, but the structure and navigation of the system will be similar to your future math courses. The snapshots and videos in this blog will show the teacher's view of the course, but it will be almost identical to what your students will see. Each course starts with the front page of the course that looks like this. 


[[ The image was captured on my desktop with an option to get a copy of embedded html code for the image that has been stored in screencast.com at capture. In this way my blog page can download the image from the screencast.com to display properly. You have a second option to do the same by storing an image file on your computer, then you can upload it directly to your blog site through its editor. You have two options to adjust the size of the image: a) you can set the canvas size the way you want it when you capture the image in Jing, or b) you may adjust the width and the height of the image in the web-editor such as a blog html-editor, but in this case, the ratio of the width and the height should be the same as the ratio of the original image captured.]]









In the left pane, the course contents are organized in folders. The main frame shows the main cover page, the author's video window, and the modules for students to follow throughout the course. Each module consists of different activities such as video lectures to watch, reading assignment, discussion board, peer reviews, and others. Students can mouse over each module to see what kind of activities they will do in each module. The following video shows those modules and activities.


[[Jing allows us to embed a short video.]]