05/04/2010

Four ideas for using screen capture tools in the classroom

Joe Dale's recent post featuring Russell Stannard's use of screencasting for student feedback , and Matt Lingard's blog were a great source of ideas for a recent show-and-tell ICT coordinators' meeting at my school. I chose to showcase screen capture tools, such as the mighty Jing - of which I am a rather large fan - and some others such as ScreenToaster, ScreenJelly and ScreenR . There is just so much that can be done with them!

The Prezi below features 5 mini-tutorial videos, including a quick overview of what screen capture tools do.

Big thanks to Russell, Matt and Joe for their great ideas!


Using screen capture tools in the classroom! on Prezi

4 May 2010 17:22:04

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