[Moodle] Jing and Screencast

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Here is nice cross post that some of you might find handy. It illustrates a
different way to embed images in Moodle using Jing and screencast.com

Regards Roland

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Re: Inline display of images captured with Jing
by John Isner <http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=104240&course=5> -
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 02:04 AM
I found an acceptable solution.

After you capture and save your image to the Web, Jing gives you a popup
letting you know that it has put the (non-embeddable)
URL<http://../glossary/showentry.php?courseid=5&concept=URL>on the
clipboard. That popup also contains a link to a page on
screencast.com where you can manage the image (e.g., rename, delete). That
page displays a link to the embeddable
URL<http://moodle.org/mod/glossary/showentry.php?courseid=5&concept=URL>.
You can right click and copy link location from there. It's an extra step,
but it's acceptable.

Screenshots in forum <http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=23> posts
are really helpful when you're trying to explain a problem or a solution.
Forum allows you to attach a file of limited size, which you use for an
image. But a single attachment can't easily show more than one screen
capture, and it is always displayed at the end of your post. You can embed
multiple images using the Insert image button, but such images must be
stored somewhere on the Web, and not everyone can easily do this.

Using Jing, you can embed as many images as you want anywhere in your forum
post using the Insert image button (like and and ) without having to first
store them on the Web. Jing stores them for you, using space on
screencast.com.

FYI Jing is a project <http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=107> at
TechSmith, the same company that produced SnagIt and Camtasia. The first
200MB of storage on screencast.com is currently free.

-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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