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Click through this demo slideshow to see a better way to showcase photos using PowerPoint. View on SlideShare See below for the how-to’s. STEP BY STEP (quick version for now; …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: PowerPoint

If you make a PowerPoint presentation that contains a lot of images, the file might end up being quite large in size, particularly if the images you used were very …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: Mac, PDFs, Preview

ALSO POTENTIALLY RELEVANT: How to make images web-ready (cropping and resizing in Preview) and How to annotate PDFs (in Preview). How to Change the Default PDF Reader to Preview Preview …

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Categories: Composing with Video, Using Other Tools

Because you can find so many tutorials on Windows MovieMaker on the web, I don’t have a lot of details here. I recommend that you start by browsing Microsoft’s MovieMaker …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: Mac, PDFs, Preview

Being able to highlight passages and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t want to have to print out lots of documents but …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: PDFs, Windows

Being able to put highlight passages in and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t want to have to print out lots of …

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Categories: Using Other Tools
Tags: MovieMaker, Windows

I don’t have easy access to a computer with Windows 7 and screencasting software, but thankfully lots of tutorials are available online. The 7Tutorials.com site has many useful handouts, including …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: audio, QuickTime

This screencast shows you how to make a simple audio recording using QuickTime X Player for Mac, which comes with Macs running 10.6 or 10.7. Older versions of the free …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: Mac, PDFs

If you can print it on paper, you can most likely save it as a PDF. That goes for documents, images, web pages, emails, or whatever. PDF stands for “portable …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: MovieMaker

While you’re working on a project in Movie Maker, you should periodically choose Save from the File menu to save your project file. But when you’re ready to share your …

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Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools
Tags: MovieMaker, photo essays, Windows

MovieMaker for XP and Vista is pretty easy to use as it guides you through the process of adding photos, adding audio, creating title cards, and inserting special effects and …

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