Deb Norton Tech

This post is about taking a capture of something on your screen.  I decided to share this since recently I made a poster in Poster Maker and tried to email the poster to myself.  The email never came through (Quarantine Summary is my guess).   My co-teacher tried to have her students make Wordles and when they went to print, the computer would not load the Wordle as an image.  So I found another way to get my poster and the Wordles onto our computers for printing. HERE IS WHAT I DID: I used the Snipping Tool.  It is already installed on your computer if you have Windows.  I went to the start bar and typed in snipping tool. Then I clicked on Snipping Tool.  I drew a box around what I wanted to capture on my screen.  Next I saved the picture to my desktop.   I plan to show my students how to use the snipping tool this week and we will no longer have to worry about not being able to print our Wordles or get our posters...

Poster Maker is a new site for making posters.  Here are some examples of posters from the gallery: Aren't these great?  The Poster Maker allows a person to bring in their own pictures.  Add borders, text, titles, backgrounds, and shapes.  When you have finished making the poster you can have it emailed to you.  I am surprised to find that when I tried to email my poster I created to myself, it never came through.  I'm guessing it went right into Quarantine Summary.  :(  (I see a post coming about how to screen capture your poster tomorrow!) Here is the poster I created for National Bully Prevention Month (October) Another great thing about Poster Maker is that in the gallery there are posters to view for bulletin board ideas.  The more I played around with Poster Maker , the more impressed I was.  I foresee that our students will soon have an account to Poster Maker and will be using this tool for class projects....