I take a lot of screenshots (digital images of the computer screen) in my role as an Instructional Facilitator, but even in the classroom, screenshots were handy in my slide decks or on handouts. They are also really great to take pictures of students' digital work and paste into emails to parents. Now, most of my topics on this blog surround the Google-verse, and if you are Chromebook savvy you may know about the CTRL + ALT + Window Switcher keyboard shortcut. This shortcut allows you to select a section of the screen in order to take a screenshot (hello, alliteration!). I didn't know such a thing was available on Windows. There are Chrome extensions out there, but all of them I'd tried had too many steps. I always ended up switching over to my Chromebook or doing a Print Screen on my Windows laptop and editing the image in Google Drawings. {Have I lost you yet? Don't worry, the Snipping Tool is so simple and can solve all your screenshot problems!} To find the Snipping Tool, click on the start menu (bottom left corner) on your Windows PC (laptop or desktop). Then, start typing Snipping Tool in the search bar, and it should show up. You can right-click it in the list and select Pin to Taskbar, which will put it in the bar along the bottom of your screen for easy access. If you click to open the Snipping Tool, it's fairly straightforward. A little dialogue box pops up and tells you to drag the cursor around the area you want to capture. The default is Rectangular Snip, but you can change it to different options like Free-form. Once you drag the cursor around the area you need and release the mouse, a new window will open with the screenshot. From there, you can use the drawing and highlight tools to markup the image, you can email it out, you can save it, or you can copy it. I typically just copy it and paste it wherever I need it. Close the window, and you're done!! See the video below to see it in action. I hope you find this tool as helpful as I do. For more tips on Snipping, go to the Microsoft resource page here.
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