When you create a video, you often want to fade music in or out, fade images in and out. Sometimes you also want to speed things up and slow them down. This blog post is going to cover those three things in a way that’s quite easy. Additionally, I will show you how to slow … Read more
I am really excited about this latest release from Microsoft of Reading Coach. For anyone wanting to learn or improve their reading skills in any one of 14 languages, this is a fantastic, fun and functional way to learn. New in this release is streaks, something I mentioned in another post as a positive social … Read more
In my previous post I mentioned that the new Social Media Law for under 16 year olds had passed in the Australian Parliament and included some information about the law. It’s a good step and is still a year away so there is time for refinement. While the focus of the law is about preventing … Read more
Creating a floorplan and keeping it up to date is harder than you think. Here is a simple solution that makes use of a Windows 365 Onedrive environment where we have a PowerPoint containing a read only viewable floor plan that links to an excel spreadsheet with the names of people sitting at the desk … Read more
These are fun to do and now with AI you can combine that family photo with some creative genius help from a digital artistic sidekick. Click the button below to get started building your card. Here is the one I created on the right. One is a static printable Christmas card and the other is … Read more
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
