Educational Technology | Instructional Design | Learning Theory
Canva is an online graphic design platform which makes it easy for anyone to create designs that look professional. Users can choose from professionally designed layouts or create their own designs. It’s drag and drop interface is intuitive so anyone can create posters, infographics, social media graphics, brochures, flyers and business cards. The designs can be downloaded as graphic files (JPG or PNG) or as print or web optimized PDF files. Continue reading
Hyperlinking, a critical feature of the internet, is frequently used in online educational content. Typically, the hyperlinks can be identified by text that is in a different colour or underlined.
Online learning content often utilizes hyperlinking to make connections to other online information and website outside the course content. From a student perspective it can be confusing to distinguish which hyperlinks are critical to review as part of the course and which ones are included as optional course links. Course designers can use a number of approaches to minimize or eliminate that confusion. Continue reading
ThingLink was originally created for online interactive advertising. But many educators are adapting it for creating interactive images in the course content. It only takes a few minutes to create an interactive image which you can add several types of Rich Media tags. This makes it possible to have multiple social content links to be accessed from one image.
To see how ThingLink works, first make sure this post is completely open, so the “continue reading is not visible below the image. Then just mouse over the image and click on the green icons to learn more about this enigmatic print by Francisco Goya.
This print is work No. 43 of Goya’s “Caprichos” series (1st edition, Madrid, 1799). Public Domain .
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One of the most charming tools available in Photoshop is the eyedropper tool. It’s so handy to sample colours from images already open in Photoshop. For online, images or web site elements that I wanted to know the colour for, I just copied and saved the image, and then brought it into Photoshop to sample. Continue reading
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates
Using Flickr images is not a hard job, nor is attributing the author correctly, or linking to the source of the image, or even understanding the Creative Commons licenses correctly. But all of this together can be difficult and is a time consuming nuisance. Especially so when you are developing course content under a tight deadline. (Of course, that never happens!) ImageCodr is a great online tool to make this process easier and faster. Continue reading