3.5 Basic Troubleshooting
Candidates troubleshoot basic software and hardware problems common in digital learning environments.
Artifact: Jing Screencast
Reflection:
I created a screencast using Jing on how to use a digital tool. My screencast was how to create a QR code for your classroom. In the video, I walk through the steps necessary to take a resource and create a free QR code for students to scan in the classroom. Once a resource is located, you must go to a free website and create a QR code by copying the link and pasting it into the website. The website will then give you the QR code and you can save it to your computer as a picture where it can be printed to hang on a wall or added to the top of a worksheet.
Before I could complete this screencast, I had to try out all of the websites that I planned to use and work through the steps necessary to create a QR code. I was able to troubleshoot and determine if I was going to encounter problems while making the screencast by doing a practice run before recording using Jing.
While completing this screencast, I learned that even with a practice run things could happen. My Internet was slower at the time and I found myself having to wait during the screencast for pages to load before I could move on to the next step. In the future, I hope to rerecord the video with my new faster Internet to eliminate some of the lag in the current video.
I found that using a screencast is time consuming at first, but once you have videos made they become a time saver in the classroom. I do not have to repeat the same directions to ten different students; they can all be watching the video at the same time while I am helping someone on a more significant problem about the math content. I enjoyed using the Jing application and will use it again in the future for other tutorials. I shared the video with my students through Google Documents so that they could watch the video if they were struggling while creating a QR code for the assignment. I have found Google Documents to be very efficient for sharing a large number of resources with the students without them having to type in long complicated web addresses.
I created a screencast using Jing on how to use a digital tool. My screencast was how to create a QR code for your classroom. In the video, I walk through the steps necessary to take a resource and create a free QR code for students to scan in the classroom. Once a resource is located, you must go to a free website and create a QR code by copying the link and pasting it into the website. The website will then give you the QR code and you can save it to your computer as a picture where it can be printed to hang on a wall or added to the top of a worksheet.
Before I could complete this screencast, I had to try out all of the websites that I planned to use and work through the steps necessary to create a QR code. I was able to troubleshoot and determine if I was going to encounter problems while making the screencast by doing a practice run before recording using Jing.
While completing this screencast, I learned that even with a practice run things could happen. My Internet was slower at the time and I found myself having to wait during the screencast for pages to load before I could move on to the next step. In the future, I hope to rerecord the video with my new faster Internet to eliminate some of the lag in the current video.
I found that using a screencast is time consuming at first, but once you have videos made they become a time saver in the classroom. I do not have to repeat the same directions to ten different students; they can all be watching the video at the same time while I am helping someone on a more significant problem about the math content. I enjoyed using the Jing application and will use it again in the future for other tutorials. I shared the video with my students through Google Documents so that they could watch the video if they were struggling while creating a QR code for the assignment. I have found Google Documents to be very efficient for sharing a large number of resources with the students without them having to type in long complicated web addresses.