Todd's Tuesday Tech Tip #16 Be Funky! Fast, Fun and Free Online Photo Manipulation

Hello Colleagues,

Happy Tuesday!

This week's tip is an all time favorite site for photo manipulation.  This one has been used by several teachers (Tammy and Dayle for sure) to create some pretty awesome artistic images of their students to go along with pieces of poetry or writing. 

What is Be Funky?  Here's what the website says:  With BeFunky anyone can transform their pictures into extraordinary works of art in just a few clicks.



Here is a quick video on how to use BeFunky! 

As it says on their banner, it is free and you don't have to register to use it.  This means that students could also easily use this on our network computers in your classrooms.

How do you think you or your students could use BeFunky?  Please be sure to leave a comment on the T4 Website so that others can learn from your ideas too!

Thanks,
Todd

Todd's Tuesday Tech Tip #15: How to scan (even color images) on our Xerox Machine!

Dear Colleagues,

I have just recently learned that our old scanner (CanoScan LiDE 25) is no longer supported on Mac OS systems from 10.6 or higher.  What's that mean to you?  Well, it means that our CanoScan LiDE 25 no longer works on most computers in the building!  We do have one computer in the RC (oddly enough, it's the really big and super fancy nice one we use near the massive printer).  Never fear, there is always another way around this and that's the focus of today's tip.

Did you know that our awesome Xerox machine up front can scan?  Did you know you could have those scans sent to your e-mail?  You can. 

Please see the attached PDF with step by step instructions.  Special Thanks to Matt Boyer from Washburne for making us this cheat sheet!


Here is a link to the article about 18 ways iPads are being used in classrooms.  How many of these do you think we could implement?

Here is a link to the PDF of the instructions.

Stop on over to the T4 Blog and leave your comments.

Todd's Tuesday Tech Tip #14: Ten Mac Tips

Dear Colleagues,

This week I have a tip that will help you work smarter on your Mac.  For some of you these might all be old hat; for others they might be brand new.  These ten tips come in the form of a video from How To Learn.

I hope you find them helpful.

Here's the LINK:




TB