Graphic Screen Grab

When looking for a picture, I wanted to find one to celebrate the upcoming holiday... Halloween. I went under Google and searched for Halloween images. I found this beautiful picture of a jack-o-latern with fall leaves in a beautiful setting. I wasn't sure exactly how the Print Screen button worked, so I read about it in the link provided in Module 3. After reading the instructions, it seemed pretty easy. I pressed the Print Screen button on my keyboard on that page. Then, I opened up paint and pressed "ctrl" and "v" together to paste the picture into Mircosoft Paint.

I quickly realized that it pasted the entire web page... not just the picture. So I selected the picture, copied it, and pasted it into a new Paint. Then, I created a text box using the text box tool and typed in "Happy Halloween" in the text box. Next, I played with the eyedropper tool and found a color in the picture to fill in my text box with. I found this yellow color inside the Jack-O-Latern and clicked it with the eye dropper and filled it in the text box. Then I used the paint brush tool to fill in as many white spaces as I could. I saved the file as JPEG on My Computer under My Pictures. To upload it to my blog, I clicked on the "Add Images" link and posted it here. The picture's dimensions are 512x555 and the size is 42.1 KB.

This is a tool I would've loved to know how to use in my student teaching. Like I stated in some of my blogs, my students (during my student teaching) were very visual learners. In sight of this, I often used Power Point to present my lessons. I used a lot of clip art to show pictures of the terms/ideas I was teaching. This is a great tool that I could use when making my Power Point lessons. I can grab any graphic off the Internet with this tool and insert into Paint. Here I can edit my picture and then place it in my Power Point presentation. My students could also benefit from learning a skill like this. If they needed to find images on a history project they were doing (for example) they could use this tool to find the images, edit them, and then present them. There are endless ways this tool can be used in the classroom.