How to Take a Screenshot eBook

Product description

From the author

This is a “How to Take a Screenshot” eBook that will pair well with students in your computer classroom. Check the guide’s shortcuts against the devices and settings your students will use.

Taking a screenshot of your computer may have certain advantages. Rather than describing what’s on it, you can show a picture that may be worth more than one thousand words. This will teach students how to take a screenshot on 3 different formats: Mac, Windows, and some smartphones.

Each format will provide step by step directions for how to take a screenshot. You can print a copy of this for each student who is practicing this skill. You may also choose to print off a copy and laminate it to display on a classroom bulletin board. Finally, you could choose to project it on a smartboard if students are practicing that skill in real time.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Capture a full screen, a selected region, or a single window on a Mac using the three Command + Shift combinations given
Capture a screen on Windows using Print Screen, the Snipping Tool or Alt + Print Screen, and paste a clipboard capture into Paint or another program
Locate a finished capture afterwards — on the Mac desktop, on the Windows clipboard, in the iPhone Camera Roll or in the Android Gallery folder

Teaching tips

Run the Mac shortcuts in order in front of the class — whole screen, dragged selection, then window — because the third is the second combination with the Spacebar added, and it only makes sense after the second has been tried.
Have a Windows machine with Paint already open when demonstrating the guide’s clipboard-based method; device settings may differ.
Check the smartphone steps against the handsets actually in the room before demonstrating them, since the iPhone instructions assume a Home button alongside a Sleep button.

Skills covered

Mac screen capture — readers use Command + Shift + 3, Command + Shift + 4, and Command + Shift + 4 with the Spacebar to capture the whole screen, a dragged region, or one window.
Windows screen capture — readers use the Print Screen key, the Snipping Tool and Alt + Print Screen, then paste the clipboard image into Paint with Ctrl + V.
Image cropping — the Mac route through Preview's Tools menu or Command + K trims a capture down to the part worth keeping.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Will every shortcut work on every device?

The guide covers particular computer and phone methods, including an iPhone with a Home button. Match the instructions to the device and settings you are using.