The bundled tutorials are excellent and easy to understand. I think it is wonderful that this software is free; and its' video screen capturing tool can be used in many ways that are applicable to schools and libraries. Jing is a great tool for making tutorials on using internet resources, like search engines and databases. For this assignment, I made a Jing video on using the Florida Electronic Library, which I will share with my students at my high school. We have an English class that is currently doing a research project on genocide and our school is lacking the internet resources that would help students with their project. Many students just use Google, period. Since, FEL is free for all students in Florida, becoming familiar with how to navigate and find information in FEL is a great first step down the path of information literacy.
See my Jing video below; I had to post the link because....I'm guessing....my screenshot is larger than the 600 x 600 that is recommended for best results . But I had to make it that large to capture all the features on the catalog web page, otherwise it defeated the purpose of explaining things that the student cannot see.
I found Jing very easy to use as well. And, as you pointed out, it's FREE. Us librarians are always crazy about easy, free, useful teaching/learning tools.
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