Never before in history has innovation offered the promise of so much to so many in so short a time. --Bill Gates.
This week's goal is to continue exploring Jing, particularly with respect to using screencasts to assess student work. I discussed the idea of using Jing for student assessment in a recent post.
Because I am working at an online school, providing feedback in this more personalized format could replicate having a teacher-student conference. To that end, I have emailed a couple of my students for permission to share this experiment on my blog (with the understanding that I will not refer to their names anywhere).
While I wait to hear back, let's take a broader look at Jing and its possibilities in the classroom. Will Richardson (2010), ed-tech guru, writes that screencasting is "a relatively new medium that...has a lot of promise in the classroom" (p. 123).
This YouTube video shows how simple, yet innovative, Jing's concept is:
Here are two additional resources for getting started with Jing:
1) Chapter 8 of Web 2.0 Tools in Education (thanks to my classmate, Joclyn Beliveau for sharing this link)
2) This detailed screencast tutorial from an ESL teacher at TeacherTrainingVideos.com
Although these tutorials provide orientations to Jing, I find the program very well-designed and intuitive to use. I didn't need much "google it" help to set up Jing and start using it. It was easy as 1,2,3! What I did discover, and I blogged about it last week, was that creating a polished screencast that demonstrates how to use a web tool will take some planning, as well as trial and error.
In the next post, I will explore potential uses for Jing for both students and teachers.
References:
ChannelTechSmith (2011, October 25). Jing overview video [video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5FLsSUTFYyw
Embi, M. A. (2011). Web 2.0 tools in education: A quick guide. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/58594601/Web-2-0-Tools-in-Education-A-Quick-Guide-by-Mohamed-Amin-Embi
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Thousands Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Stannard, Russell (n.d.). How to use Jing screen capture tool [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.html
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