Camtasia vs Jing

I had quite the learning experience while I was using Camtasia and Jing.  Camtasia is a very comprehensive program when using screen capturing software.  I had a little trouble at first when I first downloaded it to my laptop because it downloaded it fine, but when I went to use it, it didn't play the video at all.  All I could do is hear my audio.  I wasted an hour at least because I didn't have the newest video player, but it didn't say anything about not having the correct hardware to use it.  I was more than a little upset about that because I thought that I just wasn't doing something correctly in putting in my video correctly.  It never told me why my screen was blank but could hear audio.  So I uploaded the program to my desktop PC and that seemed to fix my problem.  After I finally got it running it was pretty easy to upload the pictures, transitions, music, and title screens.  I liked the fact that I could pause my recording, think about what I wanted to say and then resume my topic later.  Camtasia seemed to have all of the bells and whistles that I could possibly want when making a presentation.  Jing, on the other hand, was a bare bones program compared to Camtasia.  Jing would let you do a one time video including audio and after you pressed stop, you were stuck with whatever you had on the video.  You didn't have any music, transitions, title screens, zooming, or extra videos to put together to make a presentation.
  I would recommend either application to a teacher.  If they wanted to make a quick lecture and show students how to use a program, I would use Jing, but if they wanted to make a refined and professional presentation, I would recommend Camtasia in a heartbeat.  The biggest difference is price.  Jing is free, and Camtasia costs a couple hundred dollars to buy.  Here is my Camtasia video.

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I really enjoyed using Jing because it was so incredibly easy to use.  You just hit record and you get to record anything that is on your screen.  It is very user friendly and when you are done you just push the button to publish it and it goes to screencast and you can save the link and view it whenever you want to.  Students could easily use this to put on a different type of presentation instead of the usual PowerPoint and get to mix it up a little.  The only thing I didn't like was that you can't stop and start a video.  Once you start, you better be flawless in your delivery.
Other Web 2.0 Apps that I liked were Prezi, Wordle, and Delicious.  I think that they would have many applications in any classroom regardless of the subject being taught.