I love my beautiful iPhone and the ten million apps and games I have on it. Well, there’s about 10 apps and the rest are games. Buckingham Palace Mysteries, Bookworm, Yard Sale, bloons, Myst (which I still hate after these many years of trying to complete that incomprehensible *%#&)….love the games. And I love the [...]
Ok, its a self-publishing archive. I get it. They call it “democratized publishing.” I get that. Even our President has a Scribd page with 100 friends. We can use it to embed documents into websites. Like that. Check! Please do not say that this is the future of the book or I will totally lose [...]
In this installment of I’m Learning Photoshop, I took on the Working with Masks and Layers chapter from PS CS4 Classroom in a Book. Ok, masks are not easy. This lesson took me two hours. Masks are like taping off things you want to retain like taping off the trim when you paint a room. [...]
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Ok, so librarians get all twittery when they encounter masses of full text. Myself included. It doesn’t matter what kind of full text either: journal articles, research reports, newspaper articles and, of course, books. Though we love the fact that google is cranking out the e-books as fast as we can catalog them…there’s a big [...]
Here’s something nifty! This tool, brought to us by our friends at GE, allows the user to make animations using a variety of tools. Students could use this to express themselves or one could sit a child down in front of it for hours of free time. I just used the Stamp and Text tools [...]
Google docs now has a share option where you can select a form. So, you share your spreadsheet, make up your questions or whatever you need people to fill in on the spreadsheet, then all of the responses to your form are recorded on the spreadsheet. Brill!