Richard D. Solomon's Blog on Mentoring Jewish Students and Teachers: Introduction to Jing as a web-based screen capture or screen shot tool

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Introduction to Jing as a web-based screen capture or screen shot tool

When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will discuss how Jing can facilitate communication among teachers, students, parents, staff and the Jewish community around the globe as a screen capture or screen shot web-based tool.

Assumption: The teacher or mentor teacher has a interactive white board (i.e. SMART Board, Promethean, etc.), a Tablet PC (also called a Slate or Blade), a computer presenter or computer with internet access attached to an LCD projector in the classroom. It would be ideal if students or mentees had access to their own laptop computers or Ipads as well.

Note: Although Jing can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, it can be also be used for training pre-service and in-service Jewish educators for professional or staff development. It is our hope that Jewish educators around the globe will form an online community of practice, a CoP, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession, to enhance the delivery of instruction and training of Jewish educators. For example, here is a CoP you might want to join.

Note: Jing can also be used in a face to face classroom. .

Where is Jing located on the web?

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

Jing as a web-based screen capture or screen shot tool

In a previous post we described Jing as a screen recording tool. Click here to link to that post. In today’s post we will demonstrate how Jing can also function as a web-based screen capture or screen shot tool.

Helpful tutorials on how to create screen captures or screen shots by using Jing

Click on the links below and find tutorials on how to create screen captures or screen shots by using Jing.

For what educational purposes can a Jing screen capture or screen shot serve?

Provides a visual display of some content or concept
Can serve as an anticipatory set for a lesson or training event
Serves as an assessment measure for learning
Provides a summary or closure for a lesson or training event
Provides a review of a lesson or training event that a student or teacher had missed
Demonstrates the evolution of the knowledge mastery or skills acquisition that a student or teacher has learned over a period of time
Serves as visual prompt for an in class or online conversation
Can serve as a stimulus for reflection
Empowers students and teachers to make their own web camera presentations
Serves as a communication channel to answer student and collegial questions
Serves as a method to retrieve artifacts or products created by students and teachers
Serves as a repository of student or teacher created artifacts for an e-portfolio