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Its Tuesday again!  For a while, the poll was acting screwy, but the votes were all restored just in time!  The winner was "How to Make a Simple Frame in PowerPoint!"



For next weeks poll, Im going to add how to add an easy border to your pictures... like I did with the pictures on the post about my pumpkin bulletin board!

This weeks tutorial is one that many people have asked me about over time... how do I lock down clipart in PDF documents for TPT?  Well, the long-awaited tutorial is finally here!


Heres the poll for those of you who are curious!


I wrote up two separate tutorials... one for Mac users and one for PC users.  The steps are totally different on the two computers so it warranted two separate write ups!





For next weeks poll, Ill be adding how to save your files as ZIP files!

Cutting out lamination can be such a pain... but if you make your classroom games/signs yourself, you can actually make them incredibly easy to cut! the cards that I have in the preview only took me three slices to cut out!


Here are the poll results!



Now onto the tutorial!








As far as cutting the lamination, I also recommend getting a nice paper cutter. I have one like the one below, which seems to cut nicely through cardstock/lamination.

As for next weeks tutorial, Im going to add something a bit more specific... how to make your own cut/paste items in powerpoint!

This week was very close in the polls... but the majority of you voted for me to blog about how to make a form to post on your blog or website!


 Heres the poll so you can see just how close it was!


Now... onto the tutorial! 





Now, I know that I didnt detail how to embed the form on your blog... if thats something youre interested in doing, be sure to vote on the poll for "How to add HTML/embed code to a blog post!"  For those of you who are familiar with how to add the code on your blog, you can use the embed code from the drop-down menu in the picture just above this text!




For next weeks poll, Im going to add another request - how to take the background out of a photograph (so that the photo has a white background!

Its Tuesday again... and its shockingly much earlier in the night than my typical Technology Tuesday post!  The winner for this weeks poll is a nifty option that is sure to save you some time when you create your own items!


Here are the poll results:





As for next weeks poll, Im going to add how to turn your hand drawn images into clipart.  I had a few people request this a while back and I promise I didnt forget about you!  Ive been keeping an ongoing list of things to add to the poll eventually and I will eventually get to all of them!!!

Its time for another late night Technology Tuesday post... how to easily add a border to your pictures!


 This was the closest poll ever I think!  It literally couldnt have been any closer! 


This tutorial uses the program Picasa, which is a free program offered by Google (and I just love it!).  You can download it here.

If you already have Picasa installed, click "Help > Check for Updates" and update your version.  Its not entirely necessary, but it may give you some neat new features!



 


For next week, Ill add an option thats been requested by a few people: how to make an editable powerpoint that locks down clipart and other images!  For example, this freebie (which reminds students to write their name on their paper) locks down the border so you cant move it around or copy it to another program.

This weeks technology tutorial is something that is easy but SO awesome!  I have to give a big shout out to my friend Katie for showing my this one!  Shes one of my lovely co-workers and has the most amazing ideas!  And she absolutely needs to start a blog!  (Hint, hint!!!)  :)










For next weeks poll, Im going to add how to use both portrait and landscape lines in PowerPoint.  Be sure to vote!

You probably wouldnt believe me if I told you that at 2:00 this afternoon, this post was almost completely written!  Then... I got sidetracked for eight hours (doing something fun and exciting for a friend... a surprise)!  Now, here we are again, posting the Technology Tuesday post so close to the stroke of midnight that its almost a Technology Wednesday post!

Regardless, I am SO excited by being able to blog about How to Make a Collage of Words in Any Shape!  So many people know about Wordle which lets you make awesome "word clouds," but today were going to play around with a fun website called Tagxedo, which in my opinion, is like Wordle on steroids!