2. What is Jing?
o Jing takes screenshot images or video
recordings of your screen. Jing is useful for
giving students instructions, showing a
support team member what your screen
looks like when you have a problem, and
saving screenshots for your records.
3. HOW TO INSTALL AND USE
JING?Step 1
Go
to http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html. Select Free
Download in the top right corner.
4. Step 2
You can choose either to Start Windows
Download or Start Mac Download. You can also
review the system requirements on this page.
5. Step 3
Follow the steps within Jing's installation
program.
Step 4
Select the box says I accept the fine
print then select Install.
7. Jing Options
Find the yellow circle peeking from the edge
of your monitor onto your screen. It could be on
any of the four edges.
Hover your cursor over the sun, and three
options will appear.
8. Select the gears to view the Jing options. You
can send feedback, add hotkeys, hide the Jing
sun and get help with the Jing
options. Select the checkmark to close the
options circle.
9. How to Take a Screenshot Image
Hover your cursor over the sun on the edge
of your screen again to view the three
options. Select the plus sign to take a
screenshot.
Your cursor will turn into yellow
crosshairs. Select and drag to define which part of
your screen you want to save as a
picture. Release your cursor to complete the selection.
10. A rectangle with four options will appear
when you release your mouse.
To save the selection as an
image, select the floppy disk icon.
11. You will now be able to add annotations on
top of the image using the options on the left
side. You can draw an arrow, add a text box,
draw a box, or highlight. Select the colored
square to change the color of the
annotation. Select the floppy disk icon at the
bottom of the window to save the image.
12. A new window will appear informing you
that the capture has been saved. Select Open
the file to view the finished image
or select Close to exit the window.
13. How to Capture a Video Recording
Hover your cursor over the sun on the edge
of your screen again to view the three
options. Select the plus sign to take a
screenshot.
Your cursor will turn into yellow
crosshairs. Select and drag to define which part
of your screen you want to save as a
recording. Release your cursor to complete the
selection.
14. Select the filmstrip icon. Record your video
and audio.
Select the stop icon to finish the recording.
Select the floppy disk icon to save the
recording.
15. A new window will appear informing you
that the capture has been saved. Select Open
the file to view the finished recording
or select Close to exit the window.
16. Accessing Jing History
To view past screenshots in one
location, hover your cursor over the sun on the
edge of your screen and select the middle icon.
A new window will appear. Use the options at
the top of the window to narrow the displayed
screenshots. Select an image to view, share, or
delete the image.
17. Sharing Jing Images and Videos
Hover your cursor over the sun on the edge
of the screen and select the History circle.
Select the image or video you want to share
and then select the arrow icon.
18. Note
You can share images or videos as soon as
you take them by selecting the arrow icon.
19. The following window will appear informing
you that the link to your image or video is now
ready to paste. You can paste it into an email, a
word document, web browser address bar, etc.
20. COMPUTERS AS USEFUL
TOOLS
What is Popplet?
o Popplet is great for school and for
learning in the classroom and at home.
Students use Popplet to think and learn
visually. By capturing facts, thoughts,
and images, students learn to create
relationships between them and generate
new ideas.
22. Google Earth
is a computer program that renders
a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite
imagery. The program maps the Earth by
superimposing satellite images, aerial
photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe,
allowing users to see cities and landscapes from
various angles. Users can explore the globe by
entering addresses and coordinates, or by using
a keyboard or mouse.
23. The program can also be downloaded on
a smartphone or tablet, using a touch screen or
stylus to navigate. Users may use the program
to add their own data using Keyhole Markup
Language and upload them through various
sources, such as forums or blogs.
24. Google Earth is able to show
various kinds of images overlaid on
the surface of the earth and is also
a Web Map Service client.
25.
26.
27.
28. In addition to Earth navigation,
Google Earth provides a series of
other tools through the desktop
application. Additional globes for
the Moon and Mars are available,
as well as a tool for viewing
the night sky. A flight
simulator game is also included.
29. Other features allow users to view photos from
various places uploaded to Panoramio, information
provided by Wikipedia on some locations, and Street
View imagery. The web-based version of Google
Earth also includes Voyager, a feature that
periodically adds in-program tours, often presented
by scientists and documentarians.
30. Google Earth has been viewed by some as a
threat to privacy and national security, leading
to the program being banned in multiple
countries. Some countries have requested that
certain areas be obscured in Google's satellite
images, usually areas containing military
facilities.
32. Donors Choose
is a United States–based 501 nonprofit
organization that allows individuals to donate
directly to public school classroom projects.
Founded in 2000 by former public school
teacher Charles Best, DonorsChoose.org was among
the first civic crowd funding platforms of its
kind. The organization has been given Charity
Navigator’s highest rating every year since 2005.
33. Donors Choose
-enables teachers to request materials and resources for
their classrooms and makes these project requests available to
individual donors through its website. Donors can give $1 or
more to projects that interest them, which are searchable by
school name, teacher name, location, school subject, material,
and keywords. DonorsChoose.org then purchases necessary
supplies and ships them directly to the schools. Every project
contains a line-item budget and a description of the project. All
donors receive photographs of the project taking place in the
classroom and a letter from the teacher. Donors who contribute
$50 or more to a project also receive hand-written thank-you
notes from students.
38. Slide share is a website where you can create slide
shows to suit the needs of any culture or society. A
person could also search on Slide share for different
presentations related to many different topics,
cultures, and societal issue depending on their needs.
Slide share makes information more engaging for
students with pictures and putting the information
into a presentation. It also would be beneficial to
students to promote technology skills by having the
students search for presentations, create their own,
or modify current presentations.
39. Possible Uses of Slide share in the Classroom and Products
Students could search for a presentation on a topic that they
are trying to find information on.
Students could create their own presentation for many
different reasons like a research project, author study,
teaching a topic/lesson, or presenting other information.
Teachers could use Slide share to present information on a
topic or introduce students to a topic in an engaging way.
40. HOW TO USE SLIDE SHARE
FIRST:
sign up and should fill out your profile.
SECOND:
In your profile you can include a link back to your website's URL, choose some tags to
describe you, include an image for you/your company/site, etc.
THIRD:
Include your keywords in your title and in the keywords section so that people will be
able to find your presentation either when searching on Slide share itself or even in the
search engines.
Remember to also include a good description for the video, as well, so people know
the focus of your presentation without their having to check it out first .
You can also add audio narration to your presentations. Record your audio through
whichever method you like and upload the file as an MP3 to play with your presentation
to give it a more legitimate presentation feel.
Don't forget that Slide share allows you to embed links right in your presentations! Link
back to your website when appropriate to enjoy the full benefits of your work in
creating good and search engine optimized presentations.
41.
42. What are LiveBinders?
A bookmarking tool
to collect websites
A place to share
knowledge
A way to keep
information in
context
A way to arrange
content as an
ePortfolio
A way to “bind” links
and documents
together
43. Live Binders is a digital 3-ring binder that you can put
virtually anything into- webpage, PDF, document, image,
or video. Everything is organized by tabs and you can
even have sub-tabs within those tabs. With these online
binders you can combine all of your documents and
content to increase organization, efficiency and
productivity. You can easily access, share and update
your binders from anywhere and because Live Binders is
a collaborative tool, you can browse through others'
shared Live Binder.
44. LIVEBINDERS TEACHER ORGANIZATION TOOL
Live Binders let the teachers organize all of
their favorites resources into digital binders
to keep these ideas all in one place. Users
can efficiently organize hundreds of links
and resources they’ve found online or
collected over the years. Live Binders
integrates Google Docs, YouTube, and
even Twitter since they know that
connected educators are gathering ideas
from lots of different places.
Instead of a USB drive with different
folders for documents, Live Binders let
teachers create a space online to access
with any device. You don’t have to worry
about misplacing a thumb drive or whether
or not there is enough space for the PDF
document or image files you want to keep
for later.
46. In addition to the organizational
benefits, Live Binders makes it
easy to find and use resources.
You can set up collaborative
binders so any number of
educators can collect resources
in one place
47. The Best Things About Binders
Quickest way to
organize and
present information
Easy way to share
with other educators,
students, parents
Great way to “take it
with you” to home or
other schools
60. WELCOME TO AUDIOBOO
an audio platform that makes it easy for educators to create
and share podcasts with, students, parents and the world. It
works on IOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone).
It is both a web and mobile platform that easily lets you
record and share audio with the world using a computer,
Android phones or one of Apple’s mobile devices.
Audioboo's are limited to 5 minutes of length. An Audioboo
can be listened to on PC's, Macs, and on almost all portable
devices.
61. One of the things that makes Audioboos appealing in the
classroom is that your Audioboo feed can be subscribed to
in iTunes just like any podcast. This makes it good option
as a way to get classroom information into students and
parents hands, as almost every household has an
iTunes/podcast device.
Audioboos can also be shared on other social media sites
like Facebook and Twitter.
62. CLASSROOM USES FOR
AUDIOBOO
Use Audioboo to share the agenda for the day. You can
even attach a photo of the assignment. Audioboo allows
you to tag your Boos to allow easy searching.
Use Audioboo as a quick end of class out the door ticket.
Ask a student or students to summarize the days lesson
and then easily post their responses.
Digital Story telling: Have students create digital stories
and then share them.
63. In a history class have students become reporters
and create historical podcasts
In an English Language Learners classroom have
students practice language and pronunciation
skills and share them with other students for
feedback.
Create a weekly classroom audio newsletter.
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