Feb 06 2009
How to embed a Jing Screencast into your Edublogs Blog
Frequent visitors to PortablePD.ca will be familiar with our screencasts. Screencasts are movies of your desktop and come in handy when explaining how to deal with software and websites. Jing offers free and very easy to use software for creating such movies.
Until recently, we weren’t able to embed these screencasts directly into our blog. Instead we would have create a link to another website. Being self-centred types, Jane and I much prefer to keep our readers on our site at all times!
Predictably enough, I’ve created this screencast explaining how to embed it into a post.
Click here to see a larger version (or right click to download it).
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Hi Nathan – thanks for letting me know that the pingback hadn’t worked. Not sure what is happening as it is working fine on my test blog.
Excellent screencast I learnt extra tricks from watching it and had a good chuckle when you pressed preview without remembering to save (sorry for the chuckle).
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Nathan Toft Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 9:02 am
@Sue Waters,
Thanks for checking it out. I decided it was worth keeping my mistakes in just for that purpose!
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Great screencast! Both hopeful and useful
Shannon
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I have been wondering how to embed Jing. I tried embedding my screencast using the html embed code but it was huge. I used your instructions and it now looks good. Thanks
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Hi Nathan,
I found your screencast this morning and it was perfect as I just made my first screencast using Jing. I am having difficulty though as I have a Mac and the buttons do not look the same. For example, I want to save it on my desktop so that when I am in Edublogs and want to embed it I can find it on my desktop. I also can’t figure out (for the life of me) where the clipboard is?? I’m not sure if I am doing any of this right. I watched your screencast and now I want to see it again but I can’t seem to view it anymore. I keep getting an error. I was able to put it on screencast.com and have a link on my blog, but I’d like to have it right in the blog. Can you offer any suggestions. Thanks.
Good work!
Mary Ellen
http://teacher102.edublogs.org/
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Nathan Toft Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
@teacher102,
Thanks for writing. First off, I have to admit I don’t speak Mac very well and the explanation I give is written in PC. Hopefully you can handle the translations.
To save my screencast to your computer, right click on the link under the picture of the screencast that says “Click here to see larger version” and select “Save As.”
The “clipboard” Jing refers to is a little misleading. When it tells you the link has been saved to your clipboard, it means that there is a link ready to paste wherever you need it. Don’t search for a clipboard – it’s more of an invisible idea. On a PC you would right click and select paste. All going well, a web address (URL) will appear.
As far as the screencast not appearing – my guess is something was up with the server hosting it. I hope things are working now.
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Nathan Toft Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
@teacher102, I checked into why the screencast wasn’t playing. Looks like something’s up with Edublogs as the following message comes up:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 1423291151
Varnish
I’m lucky enough to have access space on my school’s web page so I’ve uploaded the screencast there.
I’ll check with Edublogs and see if something’s changed with how they store files.
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