Jing screencast

There is another tool available when you use Jing. It is called screencasting. A screen cast is a short movie that can be used as a tutorial or for sharing information. My screencast is about how to access Artstor, a digital gallery housing images similar to the way Jstor houses journal articles. I feel students these days are not aware of the resources they have available to them and how to do good research. Artstor is a great resource for information about images and artists. When I have mentioned it to students in the past, they have had no idea what it was, how to access it or that it was available to them for free. I believe you have to log into the library web page, much like you would log into Blackboard, so I don't think it's available to everyone. However, I could do some research on accessing it outside of FSU's library home page. I made 3 recordings! It isn't perfect, but it gets the point across. I had fun doing it. It was easy and useful. I've seen many videos like this, but never knew how easy it was to make one! I am a talky teacher, and this worries me for my first time teaching online. Through this course, I am finding out about and becoming comfortable with new technologies that will help me communicate with my students better! If I can't be there to demonstrate in person, I'll just make a screen cast!

ISTE-NETS objectives:
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
The Jing screen cast meets this objective by using new digital tools to enhance learning in a virtual environment. Students could gain facility of this tool and share things that only they know about to share with classmates. This way, there is a resource pool of various areas of expertise that students are able to share and access.

c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
Like Jing images, this tool reaches a variety of learning types Kinetic and visual learning types would benefit from Jing screen casting. Some learners need to have things demonstrated for them, and this is perfect for that. When demonstrating how to change file types or accessing databases, it can be hard without doing it face to face. Jing screen casts makes face to face learning a little closer when in a virtual environment.


3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
c. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.

d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Of course, one could potentially effectively communicate information in other ways, but Jing screen casting meets the objective of demonstrating a variety of digital formats. The more comfortable students get with trying out new applications and software, the more comfortable students will be with: associating different applications with their learning preferences, taking control of their own learning experiences, passing new information and means of gathering information on to their peers, and being more innovative and effective communicators.