Gadwin Screen Capture is a free application that is useful for PC users. Apple users hold down shift Apple and number 4 for a screen capture. . Gadwin allows you to be selective and capture specific pieces of work you have on your screen and saves these as a jpg which is a really useful feature. Gadwin saves the jpg by default in a folder it creates called PrintScreenFiles, inside your My Documents folder. You can of course after each capture, direct the computer to save your specific capture in a folder of your choosing. You can set Gadwin up to operate with hot keys eg F2, like the speed dial on your phone.
Go to Print Screen, inside the Print screen folder inside Gadwin in your programme files and change the settings:
Preferences: Use a hot key
Source: Change to Rectangle area
Destination: Tick beside ask for the file name after capturing
Image: Change from Bitmap to jpeg
I use Gadwin a lot for making how to’s or for directions procedures for my classes.
You could take 3 captures and use them for writing or an introduction to your IPC topic or science. This becomes a guess what revealing a little more information each time to get the students thinking creatively and outside the box.
However challenge the students thinking.
What do you think this is. What is your justification?
Use a thinking tool like Brace map or Fat and Skinny Questions, Pg 4
With more information what do you think it is and why? Or why have you changed your thinking.
eg My first thought was that this was a picture of Saturn because Saturn's rings rings are the most magnificent. They are bright, wide, and colorful.
Capturing several pieces of writing to use a combined document, or an interesting segment of language from an online website that you wish to discuss.
I have a How to, for setting Gadwin up on your computer if you want a copy.
Go to Print Screen, inside the Print screen folder inside Gadwin in your programme files and change the settings:
Preferences: Use a hot key
Source: Change to Rectangle area
Destination: Tick beside ask for the file name after capturing
Image: Change from Bitmap to jpeg
I use Gadwin a lot for making how to’s or for directions procedures for my classes.
You could take 3 captures and use them for writing or an introduction to your IPC topic or science. This becomes a guess what revealing a little more information each time to get the students thinking creatively and outside the box.
However challenge the students thinking.
What do you think this is. What is your justification?
Use a thinking tool like Brace map or Fat and Skinny Questions, Pg 4
With more information what do you think it is and why? Or why have you changed your thinking.
eg My first thought was that this was a picture of Saturn because Saturn's rings rings are the most magnificent. They are bright, wide, and colorful.
Capturing several pieces of writing to use a combined document, or an interesting segment of language from an online website that you wish to discuss.
I have a How to, for setting Gadwin up on your computer if you want a copy.
