Screen Capturing with Jing

I found a new free tool for screen captures that can be shared with anyone. I learned about it from an online instructor who is using it to be able to see the results of his student's LabSim scores. After it is loaded to the computer its icon is this sun that hangs out at the top middle of my desktop.

If I mouse over it expands like the photo above. Left-side click is the tool itself. Middle-click is the storage location for one's screen captures and the right-side is for settings and tools, help and the quit button.

I launched it to take a photo of my screen and it helped me set up the screen-capture size. Then I clicked and it took the photo then using the tools in the vertical tool bar you see above I added an arrow, a custom text box, and I highlighted the area of interest.


Once I was done adding the elements I used the horizontal navigation bar you see above to save. Then I exported it to a web folder using Picasa. And below is the finished product!! Using Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design I would conclude: It was consistent in its round fun-ness. There were never any errors. I could undo easily. Everything was easy to understand. I definitely felt like I was in control of the tool and that it responded to my actions. Displays were simple and I was never in short-term memory overload.

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