Jing Use in Student Learning

Jing is an online screen capture application. The free version gives you five minutes to capture and record your screen and lesson. In my

Design, Multimedia, and Web Technologies course, I had my students take different chapters of their Photoshop textbook and create a review project using Jing. They turned out wonderfully. Below is one of the examples.

Summer 2012 Begins

Summer is finally here. A busy year learning and teaching Photoshop CS5 and AutoCAD 2012 this past year. Now onto creating an online course for students of Norfolk Christian to add to their busy schedules. The course will be entitled Advanced Microsoft and will be hosted by Edmodo. While I have been fortunate enough to take many online courses, this will be my first attempt at developing an online course. Wish me luck.

HRACS Winter Conference 2012

We offered many new programs this year. One of my favorites is Edmodo.com. Edmodo is an online classroom. You are able to attached Word documents, videos, make quizzes, and much more. The code to get into the HRACS site is c7hva7. Give it a try and see what you think. The site has communities that you are also able to become involved in. I joined two so check it out. Another site we introduced this year is one of my old time favorites, Quizlet.com. While Quizlet is not a good test generator, it is awesome at vocabulary building. Another tool we found was Classtools.net. Classtools has tons of cool gadgets for teaching. You can download your class list into a random name generator to make sure your students are paying attention to your lesson. It also has a countdown clock which is helpful for those times when you want to give your students time to think. Finally, we also discussed the advantages of online bookmarking. I personally use Portaportal.com. My guest name is teanderson. Have fun and check out the new resources.

Busy Year at a Glance

Wow it has been a busy year. Two new preps which include AutoCAD 2012 and Photoshop CS5. Both programs are huge, but are really fun to teach. Tomorrow I have the privilege to present at the HRACS Winter Workshop at Greenbrier Christian School. We will be sharing many new free online resources. It should be an awesome seminar.