Taking a Picture of  Your Computer Screen

You can take picture (Screen Shot) of your computer screen and then use the image to upload into your portfolio in TaskStream as supporting evidence.  This is also a handy way to create tutorials for your students where you need a picture of the screen for clarification.  Here are the instructions.  This is for a PC.

• Locate the file, application, website or whatever it is that you want to take a screen shot of.  For this tutorial, I am going to the Discussion Board in TaskStream.
• Once you have in front of you what you want a picture of, press the Printscreen button on your keyboard. This makes a copy of your whole screen.
•  Click on the Start Menu, navigate to Programs, Accessories and Paint. This will launch a simple paint program where we can manipulate the pictures.
•  Click on the Edit Menu, drag to Paste.  You should see the picture of the screen.
•  Click on the bottom right corner of the screen and drag it so you can see more of the picture.
•  Using the Select Tool (marquis tool, dotted line box), click and drag over the part of the screen you want.
•  Click on Edit, drag to Copy.
•  Click on File>New.  No need to save the first image.
•  Click on Edit>Paste.  You will see the new image.
•  Click on File>SaveAs and browse to your favorite saving location (My Documents?  One of  your organized folders?)
•  Name it, use web protocol (No spaces, weird characters and with the extension .jpg  (Ex: discussion.jpg
•  Click on the Save as type: box (use magic triangle) right below the File Name window and drag to JPEG.
•  Press Save
•  Insert the image into your TaskStream Portfolio or where ever you want to insert it(Microsoft Word?)
•  It will look something like the image below.