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Capture Instructional Content for Additional Student Practice

You’ve got a big class with diverse students. It would be nice if certain kids could get special reinforcement practice without a ton of extra work on your end. Jing can help.

You may have a collection of good websites with sample math problems or reading comprehension activities, but it’s often hard to copy and paste from a website into a document. If you print the whole thing it’s a waste because you only want part of the site. Of course it’s usually hard to get students access to their own computer—and even if you could they might wander off to a more interesting site!

Here’s an idea for how Jing can help out:

Let’s assume you’re going to want to keep your Jing around for later in the year or even for future years.

There’s a couple of organizational things you can do that will pay dividends later.

First, make a new Screencast.com button and call it something like “Edu Resource” and have it go to a separate folder on Screencast.com. When you capture something that can be used for additional student practice click this button. This way everything will be in the same place and if you need to find a link again, you can just go to the folder on Screencast.com and review what you’ve made. Down the road you might want to move content to additional folders and make them public so students and families could go through all the practice items.

After you make the button and associated folder, it’s time to capture something. I found this exercise on www.math.com. Of course the interactivity isn’t going to work and the student is not going to see if they are right or wrong, but that’s ok—it’s better than nothing and we’re striving for quick and simple.

Once you find the content you’d like to capture, you have some choices. You could click the Copy button and paste the image into a document.

Alternatively, you could click your new Screencast.com button and send your capture to the EDU Resource folder. Before you click though, name your captures with a prefix that will help you sort and find what you’re looking for. For example: Math-Geo-001.

One nice thing about sharing to Screencast.com is that everything will be in one place. If you make the folder public, students or parents could navigate the folder and complete various exercises. You could also just give a list of links to various students or their parents. A list of links takes a lot less paper than many photocopied screen captures, but then again, it’ll require students to have access to the Internet.

Obviously not all content will work the same. It might be fine, for example, to have students read passages or logic puzzles online and answer using paper and pencil. For some things though you really need to interact with the image and therefore Jing can be used in conjunction with printed paper.

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