{"id":2161,"date":"2013-12-13T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2014-02-01T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:46:51","slug":"app-8-of-10-apps-to-countdown-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/app-8-of-10-apps-to-countdown-season\/","title":{"rendered":"App #8 of &#8220;10 Apps to Countdown Season&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>App #8:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Image editors are the tools that help your ordinary images dance off pages.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>IrfanView<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is a free program (on your school computers) that does a variety of basics like compression. \u00a0I love the &#8220;batch conversion&#8221; feature when I need a ton of images resized for the web. \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/web-resource\/editing-images-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here for instructions<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.wordpress.com\/expanding-toolkit\/irfanview-image-ed\/picmonkey_icon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"picmonkey_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/picmonkey_icon.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I need to add pizzazz to my images, I go to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picmonkey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>PicMonkey<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>. This simple online editor uses a drag-and-drop display that is easy to master. \u00a0Every change you make shows immediately. \u00a0The site requires no signup and is used successfully with students as early as Kindergarten, not to mention all teachers. \u00a0More importantly, you save your images anywhere you wish.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2013\/12\/picmonkey_editor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"picmonkey_editor\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2013\/12\/picmonkey_editor-166x300.png\" width=\"166\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Basic Editor gives quite a few options to choose such as Crop, Color, Rotate, Resize. \u00a0Each option opens up further options giving you lots of choice including the ability to upload your own layers and special effects<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" alt=\"picmonkey_slider\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2013\/12\/picmonkey_slider.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"186\" \/>Most all areas use a slider for control. \u00a0When you like what you see, press &#8216;Apply&#8217; and you now have a brand new image &#8211; something that you can call your very own! (This is definitely a fan favourite in our workshops. \u00a0Just imagine adding this to powerpoint, publishing pieces, newsletter reports or even bulletin boards.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2011\/09\/Picmonkey_howto.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for instructions on using PicMonkey.<\/p>\n<p>How can you see this tool being used in your classes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App #8:\u00a0\u00a0Image editors are the tools that help your ordinary images dance off pages.\u00a0IrfanView\u00a0is a free program (on your school computers) that does a variety of basics like compression. \u00a0I love the &#8220;batch conversion&#8221; feature when I need a ton of images resized for the web. \u00a0(click here for instructions) When I need to add&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,83,14],"tags":[76,25,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}