Jing Image

Summary

Using Jing is a lot like using the Snipping Tool, except there are many more features. One of the features I like best is being able to include readable text boxes within the image you save. This allows for clear comments and easy instruction. Another feature I really like that the Snipping Tool doesn't provide is being able to screen cast your image to share it with other users. This is really useful because you can send a link to share the screencast with multiple people at once. Therefore, while the Snipping Tool is useful and already available on most computers without having to install anything, Jing has a lot better features and more capabilities.

What I did / How I would use it

For this assignment we were instructed to find a graphic online that we could use in our classrooms, and use Jing to share the graphic on our blogs. I decided this tool would be really useful to use when introducing poetry to my students because of the comment and highlight features. For example, sonnet forms can be hard for students to learn, and being able to go to a website and find examples to quickly mark for students would be extremely useful. Here is an example of a sonnet that I marked up for them: 

As you can see, the highlighting tool was really helpful because it allowed me to separate the sonnet into sections, and I used the arrows and text boxes for my comments. It would be easy for me to do the same thing on a Powerpoint presentation, but that takes time and planning. This tool is useful for spur of the moment examples, when students are having difficulty grasping a concept. If they don't understand the examples I provided in my lecture, I can just hop on the web and Google a sonnet example to show them like the one above. Taking it a step further, we could mark up a sonnet together as a class and I could post the link to our example on the class website for them to view using the Screencast feature. It's not as easy to do that with Powerpoint! Here is an example of my Screencast.

NETS Standards

This activity is directly related to NETS standard number two because I would be using online resources to maximize student learning. Using the internet allows me to show students multiple examples, and using Jing helps me facilitate their learning by adding comments, organizing the information, and making the information available outside of the classroom using the Screencast feature.