Betty’s Bytes

Although we have PC’s at work, I am an Apple person at home. My latest discovery is a drawing program for my Mac called Seashore, available as a free download from SourceForge. No artist am I, but I have had such fun exploring the program and making my first drawing.

scenic view

The PC’s at school have drawing programs such as Paint and FireWorks, for which we have a site license. Imagine the creativity you can unleash in your students by allowing them to use the technology available to enhance their assignments.

Capture screen shots and create step-by-step video instructions for your students to navigate their computers or the Internet or perform a task in Word or other software. It is easy with a free program from the Jing Project; all you need is a computer, Internet access and a microphone, if you wish to narrate your project.

View the Jing project on formatting text in edublogs for an example; this particular video is of benefit to students who are submitting projects to the writing initiative Do You Believe in Me? and is similar to formatting in Word.