Jing Tutorial (Standard 6, Goal 3)
To view the tutorial on Jing, please click here.
Artifact Commentary
This tutorial was created during CEP 812 in the summer of 2011. I include this artifact in my portfolio because it is the greatest example of collaboration that I participated in while in the MATC program.
The assignment was to create a professional development tutorial on a new technology tool. The class was split into groups and decided on their technology as well as method of delivery as a group. In order for our group to meet, we had to make use of both Skype and Adobe WebConnect, as one of our members lives in Switzerland. We split the job up into small segments and completed our segments individually. We kept in constant contact as to the progress of our sections and modified our initial plans as we saw needed. For the final product, we all exported our sections to one group member. She put them together and narrated the screencast.
While I had small amounts of experience communicating via the internet, the experiences I had with this group proved more in depth and beneficial. To use Adobe WebConnect as an example, there was significant time needed to experiment with the tool and find out it’s capabilities as well as limitations. The platform allowed us to speak together as if we were in the same room and also allowed elements such as screensharing so that we could further understand the metaphorical page we were all on.
During the completion of the project, it was imperative that we keep in mind the audience we want to educate. We, as a group, decided to make the tutorial is simple as possible as we did not want to only cater to “digital natives”. This also played a role in our decision to use Jing, which is a simple screen and video capture software made by TechSmith. After completion and a posting to our respective blogs, I am proud of the tutorial we made and hope to use it in my school in the future.
The assignment was to create a professional development tutorial on a new technology tool. The class was split into groups and decided on their technology as well as method of delivery as a group. In order for our group to meet, we had to make use of both Skype and Adobe WebConnect, as one of our members lives in Switzerland. We split the job up into small segments and completed our segments individually. We kept in constant contact as to the progress of our sections and modified our initial plans as we saw needed. For the final product, we all exported our sections to one group member. She put them together and narrated the screencast.
While I had small amounts of experience communicating via the internet, the experiences I had with this group proved more in depth and beneficial. To use Adobe WebConnect as an example, there was significant time needed to experiment with the tool and find out it’s capabilities as well as limitations. The platform allowed us to speak together as if we were in the same room and also allowed elements such as screensharing so that we could further understand the metaphorical page we were all on.
During the completion of the project, it was imperative that we keep in mind the audience we want to educate. We, as a group, decided to make the tutorial is simple as possible as we did not want to only cater to “digital natives”. This also played a role in our decision to use Jing, which is a simple screen and video capture software made by TechSmith. After completion and a posting to our respective blogs, I am proud of the tutorial we made and hope to use it in my school in the future.
