Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Hello everyone. I hope that all of you are enjoying this nice Spring weather that we have been having here in Idaho. I don't know about you, but I love it when the sun shines. This week I have been learning about infographics. Infographics is a creative way to portray information for flyers, presentations, and other things. One of my instructors introduced me to a website called Piktochart. This website has many free templates and tools that you can use. You can go to the following link to check it out:   https://piktochart.com/  I work at a college here in Idaho Falls in the recruitment department. We are always looking for new, creative ways to portray information about our campus to our students and potential students. I showed my supervisor Piktochart today and she was thrilled. We have already started brainstorming ideas for using Piktochart, and I have starting making a few flyers to put up around campus. I am not including the flyers that I started for work because they are not finished. I did play around with Piktochart yesterday, and I will post it shortly. On top of the free version of Piktochart, there is also a version that you can pay for. With the paid version, there are 3 different prices that you can choose from. If you choose to stick with the free version, then you cannot download pictures as a PDF. You can only download them as a PNG. I would definitely suggest looking into Piktochart and trying it for yourself.


Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Screencast-O-Matic

Hello everyone, this week I have been playing around with some free software called Screencast-O-Matic. It allows you to record video on your computer while you narrate. I find it to be fun. This is also a useful tool to use for explaining how to do things. I have recorded a small video talking about editing images with Word. I will post the video below. I welcome any and all feedback. Please let know what you think.