Difference between revisions of "Tools: Snagit"

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Snagit is the "big brother/sister" to Jing. Jing is free, Snagit Academic is available at an affordable price.

What can you do with Snagit? It helps you create images and videos that explain exactly what you mean and provide better feedback.
- Quickly snag what’s on your screen, enhance it with effects, and then share your creations instantly.
- Don't type lengthy instructions. Provide quick explanations with Snagit, and move on to your next task.

They use Snagit to create a screen shot or a picture of what is displayed on your computer screen:
- Show a picture of a diagram or process; provide a roadmap to an important part of your online course materials.
They use Snagit to create a screencast or a video recording of actions that occur on your computer screen:
- Instructors introduce themselves to their students or provide tours of the online parts of your class.
- Explain concepts and demonstrate how to perform math, science or computer lab assignments.

With Jing, videos can only be 5 minutes long, with Snagit, you can make them as long as you like.
Snagit offers many more tools to mark up your screen shots:
- Call out boxes, automatic numbering, blurring capabilities (to hide names), special characters.
- You can resize, crop or cut-out parts of your screen shots.

Check out an intro video of "Getting Started with Snagit"
- Visit the Snagit web site to download the product at home; contact IT to download on your work computer.
- The Snagit Learning Center has great tutorials and tips to help you get started using Jing.
- When you install Jing, you create a screencast.com id, where you can store your video and share the link. You can also upload Jing videos to YouTube.
Hardware Needed:
- Use a microphone, headset, or webcam for recording audio
- Use your computer speakers or headset to listen to audio

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 ===Getting Started===
 * Check out an intro video of [http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit-11-introduction-to-snagit-11.html "Getting Started with Snagit"]
-** Visit the [http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html Jing web site] to download the product at home; contact IT to download on your work computer.
+** Visit the [http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html Snagit web site] to download the product at home; contact IT to download on your work computer.
-** The [http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing.html Jing Learning Center] has great tutorials and tips to help you get started using Jing.
+** The [http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing.html Snagit Learning Center] has great tutorials and tips to help you get started using Jing.
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 ** When you install Jing, you create a [http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing-what-is-screencastcom.html screencast.com id], where you can store your video and share the link. You can also upload Jing videos to YouTube.