* I used Jing to crop out a graphic from their website!
Yesterday I finished grading a test that the students did poorly on. I wanted to show the students that the questions were ALL really covered both in class and on the homework, so I went about making a key to the test using materials from both! This is where Jing entered the picture…
Jing is an amazing FREE online application that you download to your computer for taking screen shots of part or all of your computer screen. It will also capture video with sound! I use it all the time when students email me with questions from the homework. I will open up their HW question on my computer, crop only the portion I want and write the answer on it (Jing allows you to annotate before saving your screen shot!) and then paste that back into my response email to them. I can even record my voice and send them a link to the recording that has me working out the problem! Back to the test key…
Well, I was so discouraged yesterday after grading their tests that I
1) scanned in my test key and made a PDF
2) opened up the online homework assignments from that chapter (I use course compass)
3) opened up ALL the daily in-class lessons from that chapter. I was able to save every example I did in class because I teach my courses with an eInstruction Mobi, and use their Interwrite Workspace software, which allows me to save my entire lesson for each class!
4) I then proceeded to crop each test question and place them onto a blank document, followed by my written solution, and then followed by EVERY related question cropped out of the homework, in-class lessons and also any online examples that I created.
I don’t think my students will question that every single question on the test was both taught in class and assigned in the homework now! It at least made ME feel better!
Here is one question from the test key:
The five page test became a twenty-three page online answer key, thanks to Jing!
To download your free copy of Jing, go to http://www.jingproject.com/
I do pay the $15 a year for JingPro, since it lets me record as an .mp4 file and it gets rid of the logo when you record. Worth every penny! Especially the free version 🙂
