Published on
January 14, 2010 in
BlogIT.
The idea behind this blog is to increase awareness of information technology that can be useful for the educator and the class. blogIT searches for available solutions (mostly free!), reviews them and suggests them to teachers.
I hope you can find some time to experiment with opportunities mentioned on this blog, while sharing your positive thoughts and experiences with other readers by leaving comments.
Last but not least, if you are already using IT to make teaching more effective, please let us know what software you are using, and how!
Conrad Fenech
Other contributors
Winston Attard, Rosalie Zammit
In this easy to follow Gimp tutorial you will learn how to remove the ‘red eye effect’, caused by camera flash, from a photo. To do this, we resort to the Filters drop-down menu.
1. Open a photograph with red-eye effect.
Red eye reduction tutorial
2. Use the Magnifier to enlarge the view to focus on one eye.
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Published on
February 2, 2010 in
Software.
Tags: Adobe, download, editing, free, GIMP, image, manipulation, painting, Photoshop, Software.
If you ever felt the need to retouch, edit or manipulate an image in any way, you would probably use Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately, this excellent, industry standard piece of software does not come in cheap so if you did not have access to it, you would have been left pretty much stranded – unless you knew about Gimp.
Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is an open-source paint program that can be used to perform complex tasks such as photo retouching and image manipulation or simply as a paint program. GIMP is growing in popularity at a rapid rate as a complete graphics package – it is free and a good substitue of Photoshop.
Continue reading ‘Gimp – A free Photoshop alternative’
A couple of weeks ago BlogIT introduced Scribus, an opensource desktop publishing program with advanced features. Today we will look at its runaround feature – through a simple to follow step-by-step tutorial you will see how to get text to flow around an irregularly shaped picture.
1. The first thing to do is to launch Scribus and create a new document. For this tutorial, an A4 one page document will do.
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Two days ago, Steve Jobs, CEO at Apple has unveiled the company’s latest gadget, called iPad. At first glance it looks like a very shiny, keyboardless computer, easy to use and needless to say, ultimately desirable. Measuring at 9.7 inches, the screen uses LED technology and is sensitive to multitouch allowing the user to pinch and stretch to zoom in and out when viewing photographs. The iPad also features an accelerometer meaning that is sensitive to tilting – the screen rotates automatically whenever it is turned around. In Apple’s own words “there is no right way to hold it”.
Next generation computing?
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Published on
January 21, 2010 in
Hardware and Technology.
Tags: brain training, camera, chat, console, DS, DSi, handheld, Nintendo, Software, touch.
The Nintendo DS (dual screen) range of handheld videogame consoles has been selling like hot cakes since released in 2004. The system features two screens placed vertically on top of each other with the bottom one being responsive to touch via an included stylus or finger. Similar to the Wii, Nintendo has widened its target audience when compared with their previous gaming devices. Games are now being designed with the ‘casual user’ in mind, the library of software available covers both traditional type of videogames as well as a diverse choice of programs covering a myriad of topics, from cooking to brain training, from virtual books to puzzles, from sudoku to edutainment.
Continue reading ‘Nintendo DSi – a review’
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