I spent some time familiarizing myself with the program and tried to use it to make part of a handout for a research paper project.
I began by running through the demo and signed up for an account. Jing offers a limited service for free.
I then decided to try to add some images to my blog as I went through the process. This is where I ran into a bit of trouble. I was able to easily add the images I was capturing to a word document, but to add one to a website required me to embed the image. After working through another tutorial, I was able to do so.
I decided using Jing for a research paper packet would be useful in that it would allow me to walk the students through each step with a picture. I could take samples of papers to show what the heading and parenthetical citation would actually look like in a paper.
One step of this writing process that often confuses students is citing references. The website http://citationmachine.net/ lets students plug in the information from their sources; the page will then generate the correct format based on the style of the paper. The homepage can seem overwhelming, so I thought it might be easier to capture the images of the sections of the page that would be needed for each step of the citation process.
The student would first pick which format was required for the paper.
The next step would be to note what type of material was being used.
Let's say the student had to cite a book. He/she would then fill in all the information asked for.
If this step was completed properly, the citation for the source should appear like this.
I can use Jing to guide students through any resource I might need to direct them to, as well as navigating through materials and links on a class website.
