I hear those sleigh bells JINGling.....

No! Unfortunately, this post has nothing to do with the holiday season. But it does have to do with experiences with JING.

This week has been great for me because I have been using a new tool, Jing! Jing is a picture capturing tool that essentially allows you to take any image or part of an image from the internet and save it to your computer. Once you have the image saved, it then allows you to edit and modify the image with a variety of simple tools - all of which allow for more emphasis. The tool is absolutely amazing; it makes life SO much easier!

This is a picture that I took from a popular social networking site, facebook; have you heard of it?This is a picture that my sister-in-law took of my niece and posted on facebook. I went onto the site, saw the image, and only took about 3/4 of the total image. Once I had the image, it was easy to add text and arrows.

Here she is:

I have a sneaking suspicion that this tool will make life easier when designing visual presentations for my students. I can't think of how many times I have wanted an image, but have been unable to use it because my computer wouldn't allow me to save. Jing will make sure that does not happen again!

That is all.

No, I lied, one more thing. One more thing that makes Jing easy to use is its accessibility! When you download Jing it instantly puts a (movable) icon on your desktop that allows for instant, easy access to the tool. I recommend it!

Now, that is all. For realzzzzz.

INTC 5001 - Week 2

This is how I am feeling after our second class: CALM!

In the beginning of the course, I felt as though the course may be overwhelming for me. The contract confused me, the objective of blogging was confusing, and was simply overwhelmed. However, since the first night I feel much better, not only about the blogging, but about the overall course in general. I am ready to start working on adding some solid theory behind my integration of technology in the classroom.