Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Applying

A project that I always have the future teachers my college level educational technology class do is explore web 2.0 sites to share with their classmates. Normally, I give the students two sites each to explore and then spend a class day with them basically sharing the sites that they looked at. It can get rather tedious. With this method, I also wasn’t certain how thoroughly the students actually explored the websites assigned to them.

I recently saw a presentation on the Jingproject at a conference. It is a free tool that you download and with it you can create a screen cast of what you are doing on your computer complete with narrated comments!

From now on, the web 2.0 assignment in my educational technology class will be completed and shared using Jing. In this way, I will be able to verify that the students really did take time to explore and learn about the website as they apply that knowledge in demonstrating the site they explored with Jing. A bonus is that this will also give us a gallery of video illustrations of Web 2.0 sites that can be shared as a resource with others.

Objective:

• After exploring a web 2.0 site, the student will share their knowledge of the site by using Jing to create a video record describing the website and showing viewers how to use it.
• The student will also share ideas on how this web 2.0 site could be used in a content area classroom.

Assessment:
The video will be assessed as part of the technology portfolio that students complete in the class. The grade will be based on the thoroughness of the video’s explanation of the site and the suggestions made on how the site could be used in a classroom. The successful use of Jing and an easy to understand narration of the video will also be considered in the grade.

Please watch my sample screencast that I did for you! Here is the link to my Jing screencast on Prezi.

This is so amazing and amazingly simple!