Today I started taking screenshots of Meograph for both my presentation and my web essay.

Why I Did It…

I wanted to capture as much as I could visually capture in order to really guide my audience through my web essay and presentation in a way that made sense. I think that adding visuals is very important when trying to teach someone how to use a tool. It is important to be able to visualize how something works in order to use it. The screenshots also make my web essay and presentation more interactive and visually pleasing. It was sometimes hard to capture large portions of the page, so I had to do a lot of cropping, which forced me to decide what parts of the tool were most important to share. I also had a problem with using Jing for screenshots, sometimes when I transferred my Jing screenshots to WordPress they became really blurry, so I had to retake a bunch of screenshots using the incorporated Mac screenshot feature, so that was really annoying.

Screen shots for my web essay & presentation: