Mark Christie 
I emphasise that I am sharing my personal perspective here, not my employers… as education departments across Australia have only just started to consider the ramifications of the law. My intention when preparing this was that I wanted to self-inform so that my multimedia storytelling musings in SMOOTHIES shared with teachers and other educators were … Read more
Table of Contents Purpose You have a presentation, a lesson, a vlog post, podcast or knowledge nugget you want to record and share with others. What tools do you have to make this easier to produce and hopefully assist you in producing a high-quality recording. For the purpose of this sample, I will assume that … Read more
Topics for this week include The calendar containing invites to SMOOTHIES is on this page Subscribe to SMOOTHIES – Join SMOOTHIES Live | Learnshifting you can add them to your own calendar if you like. The link to the Teams meeting for this Friday is here
This post is about adding an editable event calendar to your website. I also cover how to add a pdf file and turn it into a cool flipping book/magazine and finally how to add, remove and edit menu items on your website. You can click on any of the links to jump to that section … Read more
Snagit is the first application I install on a computer after the standard work related applications and operating systems are installed. It allows me to visually share software related queries, problems or explanations with recipients via email, teams or even in blog posts like this. 🙂 Because Techsmith, the company that makes Snagit is all … Read more
PhotoShop Express – Free app on mobile devices and computers. It does have premium features that require a paid account but I like it because I can use it offline when I am waiting in the airport looking through photos and wanting to add some simple looks to my photos. Of course it does a … Read more
The image below has clickable hotspot links to URLs, in this case mainly Lightroom albums of photographs taken on my trip to South America in 2023. I am using a free software Generate Responsive Image Maps | ImgMapper. It is very easy to use and implement responsive clickable websites. The process of creating a scalable, … Read more
I was pleasantly surprised when I went to podcast.adobe.com and found that my request to gain access to enhanced speech version 2 had been approved. If you work at a school and have access to the education version of Adobe Express or the Adobe Creative Cloud, go to Adobe Podcast | AI audio recording and … Read more
熊猫 Xiongmao is Panda in Chinese. I have adopted the persona of a “Panda Dad” as I balance out the “Tiger Mum” in our parenting Yin and Yang life model – a model shaped by our own temperaments and characteristics rather than any conscious effort to shape our parenting and coaching style. I can’t draw … Read more
Reference Links (I googled these for you 🙂 – They are from Microsoft and I include them here to share with folks that already have Planner available as part of our work teams environment. Microsoft planner has been around for quite a while, and now it’s a new version. It integrates the features of Microsoft … Read more