<
Hold the CTRL button down and then drag two fingers up your mouse pad. The Zoom effect will move towards your cursor.>>
Friday, December 26, 2008
Zooming on a Mac
I stole this from Naketa's blog! See her link on my list.
<
Hold the CTRL button down and then drag two fingers up your mouse pad. The Zoom effect will move towards your cursor.>>
<
Hold the CTRL button down and then drag two fingers up your mouse pad. The Zoom effect will move towards your cursor.>>
Comic Life
It is clear that many teachers are already using this great software but I thought Id mention it anyway. It came out first for Apples and is now also available for PCs. You can download it directly from http://plasq.com/downloads/
The cost will depend on the ever fluctuating dollar but is about NZ$45.
I recommend going for the 1 month free trial to have a play first if you are unsure.
Many people are using this as a template ( actually many many templates) for learning stories. The risk is that they get overused with so much colour and detail that they actually are hard to read and the learning is lost in the layout. Tehy can also be time consuming.
A few teachers are using this program really well by using it as a time saver without making every story like a comic strip. In fact often it can be hard to tell that the work was not done in Word. The difference is in the speed and ease of production.
The reason comic life makes things so fast is that you dont have to draw boxes to insert photos and the photo library comes up on the same window so your photos are there just to click and drag.
The cost will depend on the ever fluctuating dollar but is about NZ$45.
I recommend going for the 1 month free trial to have a play first if you are unsure.
Many people are using this as a template ( actually many many templates) for learning stories. The risk is that they get overused with so much colour and detail that they actually are hard to read and the learning is lost in the layout. Tehy can also be time consuming.
A few teachers are using this program really well by using it as a time saver without making every story like a comic strip. In fact often it can be hard to tell that the work was not done in Word. The difference is in the speed and ease of production.
The reason comic life makes things so fast is that you dont have to draw boxes to insert photos and the photo library comes up on the same window so your photos are there just to click and drag.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Elf Yourself
Every year my family waits for the elf yourself site to start up again.
this is great fun although I had to use my PC as it wouldnt work on the Mac for some reason.
from Maureen
http://www.elfyourself.com/
this is great fun although I had to use my PC as it wouldnt work on the Mac for some reason.
from Maureen
http://www.elfyourself.com/
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I have been playing with Twitter for a short while. To begin with it was honestly just to try and work out why anyone would do it. But it is easy to use and there are lots of tools for using it. I havent tried them yet because I cant download to my Mac without it going through IT services and the queue for the PC at home has been too long round exam time
I wonder if it could be a useful place for centres to record everyday successes or barriers arising from their PD programmes. It is easier than email, especially if you do as I have and put it on your google home page.
I wonder if it could be a useful place for centres to record everyday successes or barriers arising from their PD programmes. It is easier than email, especially if you do as I have and put it on your google home page.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Trouble with flip my text
I tried to put htese things in the body of my text but got an errror message and had to try to change the html codes. The site did make suggestions but....
Guess I will have to try to learn a bit about html. My eldest taught himself at 12 so I guess I could if I really try. A fun Christmas project for those rainy days!
Guess I will have to try to learn a bit about html. My eldest taught himself at 12 so I guess I could if I really try. A fun Christmas project for those rainy days!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)