The image tools in this week’s sandbox have limitless potential in the classroom. The combination of creative commons image sources such as Pixabay, Unsplash, and Photos for Class and image editing software like Tuxpi, Pixlr, Pizap, and Big Huge Labs allows for students to create a variety of projects. Students can write their own stories…
Category: Course Work
Editing and Citing Images
Siimon, A (2020). Heart [photograph]. Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/I6B4wQAhvRw . CC Zero. Unsplash’s license page says, “Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the…
Word Cloud
Of all the word cloud website choices in the Sandbox, Word Art was my favorite. Tagxedo required a link from a website or blog from which to glean popular words. I’m interested to try this service at the end of the MLIS program when my blog has many posts in it. MonkeyLearn asked for a…
Font
When I started my blog, the first thing I did was explore all the themes until I found one that suited me well. Upon trying to change the font for my first assignment, I hit a roadblock. After thoroughly exploring WordPress and then consulting Google, I discovered that not all themes allow you to change…