This has been a challenging week for me in relation to balancing my classwork for this course and my day job. PSSA testing is occurring, which adds extra stress on our school and the students. This added stress makes the days seem long and overwhelming at times.
Then my web 2.0 presentation was due this week - the powerpoint part of the presentation was not the stressful part. My skills in powerpoint have been improving and I can see the benefits of being able to appropriately use it . The stressful part of this project was using Jing. I thought that it would not take me long to master and use for my presentation. It took numerous takes to get a presentable take to share with other students. And I was not completely satisfied with my end product but I decided I did not need to be perfect in this aspect of my project. I also found that by the last video I had increased my skills and feel that if I would use Jing in the future I would find it beneficial. With additional practice and less pressure for perfection, I can see Jing being a very useful and fun tool to use in the classroom. I see this as a great way to communicate with students via a video link on a school web page to introduce my class and myself to parents and future students over the summer. I also see this being a fun tool to use to communicated expectations and assignments for my students if I am out for training or conference or sick days.
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