Quicksilver

Sometimes we want our students to be able to REALLY see a message. Quicksilver can help us do that. Look at this image. See how the word 'quicksilver' really pops out at you?

Want to see how to do this?


The following video explains how to download and set up Quicksilver so you can create those large easy to read messages on your screen, too. Although there are many other uses for Quicksilver, this post discusses the 'large type' effect you see in the images here.

http://screencast.com/t/PyEHKMjh

You can download Quicksilver from www.blacktree.com or just Google "Quicksilver for Mac". It will be the first or second hit. Download and set it up as shown in the video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Mouseposé

Some teachers have purchased Mouseposé from Boinx Software and have asked me to create a tutorial on how to use it. So here it is: Mouseposé Tutorial.

Mouseposé highlights the screen area around the mouse pointer and visualizes keystrokes and mouse clicks. For more information about Mouseposé, go to www.boinx.com.

This program is not free. I am posting this tutorial by request.

Helpful Resources

By now you are probably using your document camera daily and other teachers in your building are asking and hopefully getting document cameras. Here are some helpful links that will give teachers ideas to continue to use the document camera in many new ways.

eThemes Classroom Use of Document Cameras
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002162.shtml
Be sure to check out the one titled: 101 Ways Teachers Use Document Cameras