Tool # 9

It's amazing what you can do on the internet now! Communication is easier than ever! Jing is a great way to teach students how to navigate, find, and access files or softwares. Students can get to a step-by-step video or even a word document with captured images for visualization how to do something on the computer. As for students utilizing Jing, I can see them show or capture their work on specific sites that doesn't allow printing, such as Odyssey. On Odyssey, students are required to do specific task or answer problems online, but a teacher can only actually view the students doing the work if he or she are right next to them. But now, students can show their work through Jing.

Skype has reinvented the term “PEN PAL!” Skype allows students to not only chat to who they are talking to, but to SEE and HEAR at the same time. Students can use this to communicate with other students in the school or in a totally different continent. Skype will allow students to reach out to others with different experiences where they cannot firsthand experience it. But this takes a lot of planning on the teacher’s behalf. This can also be used for students who are ill at home and have access to Skype – “your school away from school”!

I use Skype ALL the time! I communicated with a friend who was a teacher in Japan. She taught abroad and we always shared ideas! Emailing was a means, but direct conversation was so much easier! I’ve also used it a lot to communicate with m y “TRAVELING” boyfriend. He’s been to Asia and Europe for weeks at a time and my means to communicate is through Skype.


And for my new fellow WWE teachers! I have created a flash file using Jing to show you how to get to the WWE folder =)!

Click on the link
How to get to the WWE Server