Snipping Tool

When I first started reading about the snipping tool I was excited to learn how to create a screen shot of a small area. I knew how do it on my Mac but it is always good to learn how to do it on the PC as well. I have used this tool on my Mac for unit plans I have written for other classes. When I have to turn in a paper electronically that includes worksheets being able to just snip the area I needed made life much easier.

 I really can't see a time when I would ask my Kindergartners to use this tool. However, I have a reason to use it for school right around the corner. As I mentioned in my last entry back to school night is right around the corner and I am working on my grade levels packet. I am also in charge of my grades flip chart for that night. Our school is going to be opening up the county's grading system to parents to see in January so it is our job to discuss it at back to school night. It will be nice to include a snip of the report card and parent guide in the presentation. It would look like this:

I also love how there is a highlighting tool that I can use to make sure that I bring certain areas of the report card to their attention. I am also using a cool new thing in my classroom this year called reminder 101. I think this site is pretty awesome. The parents are able to text into the website to sign up and I am able to later go in the website and send out  reminders that the parents receive as a text. I wanted to have a way for the parents to actually see how to sign up. It would look like this in my presentation:

For this lesson I can really see it applying to two of the standards. I think this tool will really be useful for teachers in terms of standard number 2 "Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments". I think the snipping tool will help teachers enhance what they are trying to show their students. If their students looked at a particular flip chart of website to learn about a topic the snipping tool would allow teachers to create their assessments around what the students used to learn. Also I feel like this is another tool that allows me to "Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership". I will be using the snipping tool much more in the things I am creating for parents and my students.