I wonder if the makers of Jing are secretly Scottish...or perhaps Oor Wullie fans? Because Jing's name is awwfy like wan o' Wullie's favourite wurds...
Anyhoo - Thing 18, one which looks at a tool for recording your actions on your computer, in order to let others see exactly what you're doing on your computer, rather than have to explain things in a convoluted way. A screencast! Lovely! This is actually something my boss and I have been discussing on and off for a while - the ability to have a recorded version of how to find/use the things that new staff are most going to want to use on their computers, that we have responsibility for. To have that sort of information available to them at any point (after they've recovered from the induction process information bombardment from every department) would be quite handy. The sound recording aspect would be redundant, as we have open plan offices, and sound disabled on the computers, so an ability to tag things with a text box would be best. It looks like Jing would do this nicely.
Unfortunately, as the blog post predicted, I didn't have the necessary administration privileges to enable me to install it on my work pc, so that's kicked that one into the long grass.But, the other option, Screencast-O-Matic doesn't need any install, and works from the browser, so bypasses those problems.
Well, it would, if it didn't actually need Java installed. Which I don't have the necessary Administrator privileges to do. Hmmm.
So, for the moment, there's not really much I can do with these two tools in work, and I don't have the time just now to faff about with Camtasia or Lightshot, so this plan is going to have to be relegated to the "Something to look at at home, when I have time" category.
Anyhoo - Thing 18, one which looks at a tool for recording your actions on your computer, in order to let others see exactly what you're doing on your computer, rather than have to explain things in a convoluted way. A screencast! Lovely! This is actually something my boss and I have been discussing on and off for a while - the ability to have a recorded version of how to find/use the things that new staff are most going to want to use on their computers, that we have responsibility for. To have that sort of information available to them at any point (after they've recovered from the induction process information bombardment from every department) would be quite handy. The sound recording aspect would be redundant, as we have open plan offices, and sound disabled on the computers, so an ability to tag things with a text box would be best. It looks like Jing would do this nicely.
Unfortunately, as the blog post predicted, I didn't have the necessary administration privileges to enable me to install it on my work pc, so that's kicked that one into the long grass.But, the other option, Screencast-O-Matic doesn't need any install, and works from the browser, so bypasses those problems.
Well, it would, if it didn't actually need Java installed. Which I don't have the necessary Administrator privileges to do. Hmmm.
So, for the moment, there's not really much I can do with these two tools in work, and I don't have the time just now to faff about with Camtasia or Lightshot, so this plan is going to have to be relegated to the "Something to look at at home, when I have time" category.
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