Thing 13: Media Skills

Lots of great stuff in this module! I downloaded Picasa and made an album of My Family's Christmas Celebration held on Dec 22.  I have used the snipping tool in Windows before. It comes in handy when submitting an IT work order to be able to show the IT staff exactly what error message is on my computer screen. I downloaded Awesome Screen Shot and played around with it. I tried Snag.gy by following the directions on the screen, but nothing happened. I really liked Clipping magic to change the image's background. Pixlr has some extremely interesting editing tools. I read "25 Sites for Creating Interesting Quote Images". I might try this with the next English class that comes to the library. I have used Wordle before, but Tagxedo was fun to play with too. I have made "Fiction" signage for my library shelves using Wordle. I have had classes in the library using Windows Movie Maker to put together presentations. I personally find it not very user friendly and the students (and teachers)get very frustrated with it. Youtube editor is blocked from school, but from home it looks pretty easy to use. I wish I could convince the powers-that-be to unblock Youtube and it's tools. I read "Using Digital Images: An Educator's Guide" because I am always interested in copyright issues. I have made this a link to the article for easy future access.