20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About from Make Use Of, worth a quick post. The brush-resizing shortcut trick – [ and ] (corner brackets) will decrease or increase the brush size; add shift to change brush hardness – alone is worth following the link.
If you’re looking for effective software, of all kinds, to use to run and teach in classroom, The Freewares of 2009 has a lot to offer you. It’s a month-by-month listing of the author’s favorite free software. Each item has a thoughtful comment about using the software, often with first-hand reporting. A very valuable year-end list.
Via My Apple Menu.
I’m cheating twice here; bear with me. First cheat, I didn’t link to Part 1. It, and the point of this post, Part 2, have been floating in open tabs in my browser for too many weeks. It’s embarrassing, really. I should have posted these things a long time ago, but “I’ll do it later” is a constant refrain in my head and my life. (Ask my wife, or several of the people I work with.)
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(On second thought, please don’t!)
The point, again, of this post: a series on Peachpit about Equipment for Video Podcasting, which covers an extensive amount of information, with pics and links, provides a very good one-stop reference about video podcasting (well, two, really, unless you think of the series as a single thing with separate parts).
And my second cheat? Those links point to the print-ready versions of the articles, because the originals are split into seven or eight shorter chunks requiring reloading the pages and that’s kind of cheating. At least I think it isn’t, so I’m counter-cheating.
Enjoy the articles.
My view as I left the the station this cloudy, damp morning.
I don’t think I’m an idiot, and I don’t think you’re one either. If you put anything from your school up on the web, though, you likely need to meet accessibility requirements, and here’s An Idiot’s Guide To Accessible Website Design from Web Design Ledger.
Wordle is great for making word clouds, which you can use in your classroom in many ways. Ellen sent me this
really useful little tip that opens up all sorts of new possibilities – a way of including phrases in word clouds. Look below and you will see what I am talking about. The phrase that Sylvie demonstrates is “Once upon a time”.
Read the details at Jamie K Eddie’s A really useful Wordle trick, and her neat-o followup tip here.