Snip Snip

I've seen screen captures before and heard people talking about using them, but I had never known how to do it.  Now I do, and it is suprisingly easy.  You just find the snipping tool, tell it to capture the screen, select what you want to capture, and then save it.

I can already see the effectiveness of the snipping tool.  I don't know how many times I've tried to copy text from the internet on to have it end up looking like jibberish when I pasted it to Word.  Gutair tabs are an excelent example of this.  Copying and pasting will result in the text looking like this:

"Love Song - Third DayCapo 3rd fret (relative to capo)Em2 C D G B7

Em CI've heard it said that a man would climb a mountainD G B7Just to be with the one he lovesEm C D GHow many times has he broken that promise, It has never been done C G C DI've never climbed the highest mountain, But I walked the hill of calvaryG *D/AJust to be with You, I'd do anything *C/G
G - D
There's no price I would not payG DJust to be the you, I'd Give anything C/G
Em
D
I would give my life away"

That is a mess.  It tells you nothing about when to play the chord, which makes it  close to pointless.

While printing the web page is an opption, using the sniping tool will allow you to capture and then print only the text you want, elemenating all the unwanted adds and random text. 

The screen capture keeps the orignial formate which makes it anything but pointless.

If you don't have the snipping tool on your computer you can down load Jing (think snipping tool on steroids) from this site: http://www.techsmith.com/jing/.

This uber-usefully lesson relates to Standard 1.b: "engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources."  Not being able to print or save just the information you want from the web is a big problem.  The snipping tool is a great digital tool that solves that problem.