Bedford Ed Tech

Monday, October 19, 2015

7 Great Chromebook and Google Drive Apps for Editing Photos

from:

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/

In response to a couple of requests we received from our readers here in EdTech & mLearning, we went ahead and curated for you this collection comprising some of the best photo editing tools in Chrome web store. Most of these apps work perfectly on Chromebooks and some of them are also integrated with Google Drive allowing you to easily edit and save photos directly to your Drive account. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: editing photos, cropping, resizing, adding effects, adjusting contrast, rotating, removing unwanted parts, adding frames and many more.

1- Pixlr Editor

‘Pixlr Editor is a browser photo editor for all your editing needs. Have full control over your images, including layers and effects…If you're used to working with Gimp, PaintShop Pro, or Photoshop you will feel right at home with this online image editor. It contains a lot of the features that you normally see in desktop graphic design applications. Jump in and start using this tool with no registration required.’

2- PicMonkey

‘Free photo editor with Collage, Touch Up, Teeth Whiten, Fonts, Effects, Filters, Frames, Stickers & more…When you install our chrome photo app, the PicMonkey icon appears in Chrome's app launcher on the New Tab page, along with your other Chrome apps. So you can fire up the Monkey from here, instead of pinned tabs or the address bar. Go forth and photogrify!’

3- BeFunky

‘With BeFunky’s photo editor, you can play with hundreds of amazing photo effects that you can’t find anywhere else, like our world-famous Cartoonizer®, oil painting, and pop art effects. You can also add extra flair to your photo with hundreds of one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn graphics, like hats, beards, jewelry, photo frames, and graphic overlays. If text is your thing, BeFunky photo editor has tons of fonts and customized text layouts for you to choose from, or use any of the fonts stored on your computer! ’

4- Fotor Photo Editor

‘Online photo editing & photo creatives made simple and fun with Fotor. Fotor's free photo editing features including photo collage, photo frames, photo effects, photo retouching, color splash, tilt-shift, clip arts, text, photo cards, online HDR and more.’

5- iPiccy Photo Editor

‘iPiccy provides new, easy-to-use tools for modifying pictures, using advanced image processing. iPiccy offers the easiest user interface and workflow of any photo editing application, allowing users to easily pull images from any Web site or file folder. iPiccy includes an extensive variety of easy Web-based photo-editing tools such as Auto-fix, Rotate, Crop, Resize and Color adjustment and Sharpen - all in one place and in real-time. ’

6- Pixlr Express

‘Pixlr Express is a fun and powerful photo editor that lets you quickly crop, resize, and fine-tune any picture, all in a completely ad-free experience. Choose from over 2 million combinations of free effects, overlays, and borders to further personalize your images. Pixlr Express makes you look like a pro, even if you’ve never edited a photo before. ’

7- Pixlr Touch Up

‘Smart, easy offline photo editor. Touch up, clone, crop, resize, rotate, adjust color, add effects, and more. Put the finishing touches on your photos with this free offline photo editor from Autodesk. Automatically remove unwanted details from your photos so it looks like they were never there.’

Monday, October 12, 2015

A Deep Dive Into Google Classroom - video tutorial/overview

A Deep Dive into Google Classroom video

For those of you interested in Google Classroom, and would like a video overview, here is a good one for you to try from The Gooru.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Create Collaborative Google Maps

Monday, August 17, 2015

Free Technology for Teachers: A Quick Way to Access a Countdown Timer on Your Computer

Friday, January 30, 2015

Become an ed tech ninja with your friends

Technological change evolves much faster than institutional change can keep pace, so we need a way to learn in a way that fits our busy lives. Your teacher feedback has shown this to be the case, and you are looking for a way to quickly collaborate and share ideas in an organized way.

This video will show you how to use Bedford's Ed Tech blog the post and comment on your ed tech successes and challenges.

Your posts do not need to be formal. The idea is that you have a place to quickly share thoughts and ideas when it is convenient for your schedule. You are extremely busy and getting everyone together for a regular meeting may not be realistic, so a blog like this is ideal in this situation.

Using video, images, audio and links can greatly enhance your ideas. Most people agree that face-to-face collaboration is the most desirable way to work as a team, but adding something like a short video explanation can get us pretty close.

If you can think of Blogger, Youtube, Facebook, Google, etc. as the modern versions of the slide-rule, abacus, pencil, paper, etc., we can accomplish great things while keeping pace with the way the world works today.

Our students desperately need us to help them navigate the wide open world of technology. If we can help our students to avoid getting lost in all of the garbage out there, we can show them how to use technology to love to learn...to become creators of information instead of consumers.

A great place for us to start would be to sign up to follow this blog from the "Follow by email" box in the upper-right corner of this page. Then I would recommend finding a couple of other blogs that interest you to follow by email. In this way, you will get frequent updates of other teachers' thoughts and experiences which can provide great motivation and inspiration for your classroom.

Here are a couple to start with:

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/

All Bedford school teachers have been invited to be an author on this blog. If you can't find it in your email, send a request to support@bedford.k12.ia.us. If you are not a Bedford school teacher and would like contribute a post to this blog, contact our tech team at support@bedford.k12.ia.us to be added as an author.

Tools used to create this post:

blogger.com

Screencast-o-matic (free)

iMovie

youtube.com

update: it appears that we are only allowed 100 authors per blog, so if you didn't receive an invitation and would like to post, let me know and we'll make it work. :)