They CAN be powerful.
Monica Burns' article title states it well -
"The Simple Power of a Screenshot". Monica discusses a few simple ways specific devices can create a screenshot and also ways to incorporate into the classroom. I, personally, use screenshots quite a bit with the free software from
Techsmith - Jing. It's a simple program that allows me to capture and save any image on my desktop. I can send it to a colleague with a question or send it to myself as a reminder of something to be accomplished. The uses in the classroom would be endless from simple assessments to fun projects.
I looked into writing my blog on this article too. Then I saw that you already wrote one on it :) so I moved on to another article. I actually use screenshots a lot and I think that they are very helpful.
ReplyDeleteThis reminded me of a student with autism in my class that was taking more than 100 screenshots a day. He had some sort of obsession with screenshots. I think they can be very useful. I like the idea of using them as reminders. Good call!
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