- Discuss how the screencast could help your students and how you might have students use Jing.
I like the idea of using Jing in the classroom. At the 9th grade level students are being held accountable for their MLA Works Cited and they use a program called Noodle Tools through our library's resources page. Each time I teach the brief lesson on how to set up an account their are some students who find the links and press all the right buttons very quickly, there are others who need more time to go through the many steps of setting up their account and Works Cited. A Jing video would a perfect way for students to go back and see the steps of setting up an account.
Students would be able to use screencasts for mapping projects as well. The example in the video of a person sending an image of a GoogleMap is an ideal way the screencast could be used in the World Geography classroom.
- Discuss how you might use Skype with your students and share across the district, the state, the nation, or the world!
This past summer I had the opportunity to attend a workshop at Brown University through the Choices program. We needed to speak to a professor who was in Brazil. The solution--Skype! Brown had a state of the art flat screen TV and video conferencing room set up which allowed the twenty people in the room at Brown to be seen by the professor in his office in Brazil. It was as if we were all in the same room. While I may not have the video camera, flat screen TV, and ideal room for a state of the art experience, I do have web-cameras and head sets for students to use. We can use Skype to share ideas and learn from people on the other side of our school district to people on the other side of the world.
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