Learnshifting

Making a clickable web picture – SVG Hotspots

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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

Adobe Podcast V2 Enhanced Audio

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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

Panda Diplomacy – Giving Back

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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

Revisiting the merged MS Planner

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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

Adobe Portfolio and Lightroom

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I take a lot of photographs and many of those photographs are taken on a mobile phone. I use Lightroom CC to make sure that those photographs are stored within albums so I can share them with people. Lightroom is part of the paid creative cloud suite from Adobe. If you have the creative cloud, … Read more

Add your signature to a PDF form using Adobe Express

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Adobe Acrobat has some amazing document automation tools but, in many cases, people will send through a form as a PDF document expecting the recipient to print it out, sign it, scan it and resend it with the signature on the document. There are a variety of ways to get around this if you don’t … Read more

Hierarchy of Basic Digital Literacy Needs

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is very popular among educators, and I have modelled a basic digital literacy needs, skills, tasks and tools for young primary students on a similar look to show the hierarchy of competencies students should accumulate in order to take on learning in an education technology centric learning environment. It is about … Read more

Duolingo Streaks and AI Masterclass

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Truth be known I’m including these two videos because I’m afraid that I’ll forget the links. The first video provides a really easy to understand and fun to watch masterclass on what generative AI is all about. The second video is a TED talk by one of the founders of duolingo describing how their company … Read more