Elphi Students work on iMacs and MacBooks

Elphistudents
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I worked with some Elphi students today, teaching them how to create a blog using Blogspot. I also visited another class where the students were using the computers to do research about universities, colleges, and other post secondary institutions to attend in the coming years.

The other day, a teacher had asked me how to get a jpeg from Pages for Mac. So, I decided to create this collage using Pages. Pages won't export as a jpg, but it will as a pdf. I then opened the PDF in Apple's preview program which allows files to be exported to jpg. Once I did that, I opened it in iPhoto, trimmed off the white margins, header and footer, and voila. Good practice for me, and now to post this on my blog for the teacher to see.

Morning

Morning
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Left early this morning to go to a school where I was delivering a blogging workshop. It is a non instructional day in our district and I was looking forward to introducing blogspot to the teachers. On the way, I was captured by the way this foggy morning appeared.

The workshop was a lot of fun for me, and valuable, I think, for the participants. At least they gave me some nice comments about how the morning went. There were about 8 attendees and that made for a nice class size. We explored lots of options for them to use their blogs both personally and as a classroom / teaching tool. Good day!