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__Use in Educational Setting –__

The use of Jing in an educational setting would be ideal. Jing provides users with a unique toll and that is screen sharing and desktop screen shots. Having a screen sharing function would be very useful in an educational setting. By saying an educational setting it would focus more on the side of educating someone, not necessarily students in a school. Jing is useful for creating educational material to educate someone how to complete a task.

__Cost, Registration Issues –__

Jing, like the other programs spotlighted is a free program for users. There is a paid version that is an upgrade option that cost $14.95 a year but the free version serves the point for the basic tasks. The registration process isn’t too painful and requires the downloading of the software. It only takes a few minutes to have a lot of power available.

__Useful in what content and value to classroom –__

For teacher that plans to create tutorials of any nature that utilize technology this would be most helpful. Jing could also be very useful for demonstrations and presentations of any type. This software would be most useful in a higher-level classroom, say high school or higher. It would also require some technology assistance from IT departments to authorize downloading software as well as some instructional guidance for students using the program.

__Meta-cognition and Jing –__

Jing is the perfect example of meta-cognition and basic learning by learning. Jing is a program that has taken a difficult situation of sharing your desktop and made it easier for everyone. Meta-cognition is about learning from experience and the designers of Jing have allowed users to avoid those experiences by providing an incredible open source tool.

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