Copying Images from Inspiration

You can copy images from the Inspiration image library to use in other programs.
Open Inspiration and pull the image onto your organizer from the Symbol Palette.
Right mouse click on the image and select "Copy".
Open the Paint program in Microsoft Windows (on all MCPS computers). Paste the image into the Paint program.
Resize the image or frame around the image if needed. Save the image where you want to access it later. When you save, choose ".jpg" or ".bmp".

Delivering Password Protected Documents to Students

Are you struggling with how to deliver teacher created quizzes and assessments for students to access? One method is to: 1) make a password protected document for each class with its own unique password, 2) add the document into the appropriate folder (e.g. "McGrath" and "Period 2") on the school's "handout" folder. Provide the students that period's password and have them open the document. This can be done in Adobe PDFs (you will need to open the PDF in Adobe Professional, which is on the school network), Word docs and Kurzweil files. Click on the prior links to learn how.

Creating Accessible Worksheets from the Online Curriculum Archive

Screen demo of how to get a worksheet out of the guide on the Online Curriculum Archive and make in an accesible format as a PDF or Word

Creating Comic Strips Online

More and more options are out there for students to create comic strips online. Check out Adrian Bruce's website, The Teacher Toolbox, and the page for online tools for making comic strips. Another interesting option is xtranormal.com

Please share additional sites by commenting below!

Finding digital images you can use freely

Creative Commons is a new copyright designation that is gaining popularity on the web.  Media posted to the web under a Creative Commons license means that you can copy and use that media for your own creations under some conditions.

You can search Flickr for pictures that are licensed under Creative Commons.  This video tells you how.

• More resources for finding digital content is on the Graphics Websites page.
• Help with using digital media is on the Graphics Quick Guides page.

What are your favorite sources for finding digital media?