Pedagogical Tools For PDP

FacebookTwitter
ContentSupport for Writers

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/05/what_exactly_is_a_blog_anyway.html

PBS Teachers | learning.now . What Exactly is a Blog, Anyway?

Skip Navigation Advanced Search Log In
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/

Using Primary Sources - For Teachers

Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience. Examining primary sources gives students a powerful sense of history and the complexity of the past. Helping students analyze primary sources can also guide them toward higher-order thinking and better critical thinking and analysis skills. Before you begin:

Insert Into a Word Document - How To Information

http://www.ehow.com/insert-into-a-word-document/ Trouble Inserting a Picture Into an Organization Chart Shape in Visio 2007 Creating organizational charts using Visio can help organize your business as it and your list of employees or your merchandise structure begins to grow and become complex. You can even embed images of employees or products in the shapes used to create your charts. However, you can run into problems while using images, including increased file size, image quality, disappearing images and synchronization problems. By understanding a few common issues you can avoid frustrating time spent trying to understand problems that are easily fixed. How to Insert Speech Into Websites
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/workshops/biomed/ppt/download.html

PowerPoint Tutorial - Downloading images

Downloading Images from the Web searching the web for images | Inserting images to PowerPoint | Editing images Searching the web for images There are many image repositories out on the web, but a quick-and-dirty way to find images is through a search engine. Most major search engines allow image searching, but since we, librarians, are big fans of G o o g l e for its effectiveness and simplicity, this is what we will use in this tutorial to demonstrate image searching. You may, of course, use your favorite search engine -- just make sure you are searching for images only (look for the 'Image' link on the search engine's home page). Go to image search .

PowerPoint tutorial – how to insert a picture

Inserting Pictures Onto Slides The following article is a transcript from a our video product, "Intro to Powerpoint XP." Now that you’ve collected some pictures, let’s insert them onto a slide. There are two ways to do this: The Traditional Way (most obvious way) The easiest way to insert a picture onto your slide is by going to the menu-bar, and selecting [Insert – Picture – From File]. This will bring up the file-selection window and you can search through your entire computer for your photo. http://www.mightycoach.com/articles/powerpoint/ch4-insertingpicture.html

Quest - Make text adventure games without programming

What is Quest? Quest lets you make interactive story games – you can make text adventure games (like Zork , or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ) and gamebooks (like the Choose Your Own Adventure books). Your game can be played anywhere – in a web browser, downloaded to a PC, or even turned into an iPhone or Android app. On the desktop for Windows 7, 8, Vista or XP It’s free http://www.textadventures.co.uk/quest/

YoYo Games | Make

http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/studio With GameMaker: Studio™ 's built-in GameMaker Language (GML), you can control every last detail of your game – pathfinding, physics, object interaction, particles, data structures and more… And should you find that even that is still not enough for your project, you can easily expand GameMaker: Studio™ by using GML extensions – or creating your own – to include social networking, payment systems or any other feature you can think of.