Capturing a Video Frame as an Image
If you’ve used the Print Screen button to capture a video screen shot and your result looked like this:
then you’re a victim of video layering. Windows plays video in a separate layer from still images and text by default. While this was important in the days before GHz computers and GB memory, its pretty irrelevant now. You can easily fix this issue by going into Windows Media Player and doing the following:
- In the main menu, choose Tools > Options.
- In the dialog window, click the Performance tab.
- On the Performance pane, locate and click the Advanced button.
On the window that opens, de-select Use Overlays and click OK.- Click OK on the warning dialog.
Your computer will now play video in the same layer as everything else and Print Screen will capture it. Your screen shots will look like this:
If you are interested in seeing technology-enhanced experiences during writing demonstrations, stop by Crawford Elementary. Meaghan is using Promethean whiteboard technology to actively engage students in number talks. She started the number talk by utilizing the activVotes and collecting data on what students new about the problem she presented them. Once the students were drawn in to the lesson she began the number talk. Students used the grid that she projected onto the whiteboard when considering how to solve the problem. As students explained their thinking she was able to annotate directly over the grid. Even after the lesson, students were still talking about how they solved the problem in ways different than the students that had shared. Meaghan masterfully uses technology toward the purpose of increasing student achievement in mathematics. What lucky students!
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