T3 Technology Tips and Tricks
Edit Images on the Fly using Photo Gadget freeware
As part of our Certificate courses, students share their favorite tips and tricks using technology in their classroom. Often when students select websites that they find useful we will highlight them in our Web Sightings section of our newsletter.Starting in May our students will be selecting their favorite tip and trick from those submitted in their class and post it to our MACUL Space EduTech Group so that anyone can benefit from these great suggestions.
One of our students, Kelly Royer, recently submitted a tip regarding a free software program that you can download to your computer that adds image editing options to your right click menu. She found this program to be very useful for her students by allowing them to edit and save images from the Internet on the fly rather than having to open up a photo editing program.
According to the maker of the program, “Photo Gadget is a free tool designed to eliminate the use of complicated and expensive software in such a simple task as resizing pictures. Its purpose is to make the process of resizing many pictures at once incredibly easy. To use the program, just select pictures you want to make smaller, select new size and Photo Gadget will do the rest.“
To learn more about the program and to download the software visit http://www.xemico.com/photogadget/.
When having your students work with images from the Internet it is important to keep in mind the copyright laws associated with those images. To learn more about these laws you can visit http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm. In addition, a great source for searching for images is Creative Commons. They have images of all different license types. To visit the search area and view a short video visit http://search.creativecommons.org/.