Illustrate the Point
Adding Images to Your Documents
Tagxedo
Tagxedo turns words into word clouds. The more often a word is entered, the larger it appears in the cloud. Great way to highlight key words and terms.
College and Career Ready Students
I copied the information from the Common Core Standards for students that are college and career ready in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. Paste it into Tagxedo, change colors and shape as needed, then save as a .jpg file. Now I can use it anywhere picture is needed.
Why Read
One of my favorite quotes about reading from the author Richard Peck. Quick to create if you have the text already prepared. Since you don't have to create an account, this is student friendly. Just make sure they have typed their text before they open Tagxedo. Then copy and paste, make your respins, then save the image. Remember, you can respin the layout to move words into different positions. There is a history button that will allow you to chose a previous respin.
Screen Shots
Sometimes you just need an image of what is on your computer screen.
- On the Mac press (shift-command-3). The image will appear on the desktop as a jpeg file, ready to use.
- On the PC pressing the "Print Screen" button will copy the screen to the computer clipboard as an image file. Now you can paste it into a document and treat it as a photo.
- The app Skitch is available for iPads and computers to make screenshots and add labels to them, making them a great teaching tool.
Text into Picture
Easy Way to Create an Image From Text
Sometimes the easiest way to add print information to a file is to save it as an image file. Then it can be inserted and manipulated just like a picture. You can use PowerPoint and Keynote to create images. The first step is to get the text on the slide just as you want it to appear in the picture.
In Keynote, File->Export->Images. Follow the on screen prompts to name the file, select the format (.jpg), and the saving location.
In PowerPoint, File->Save As. Change type of file to JPEG. Follow the on screen prompts to name the file and select the location for saving.
Need to add text to a video presentation
I use PowerPoint to create an image of my bibliography to insert into video software such as Animoto. Then I can easily document the sources of the images I use to create the video.
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