Making tutorials for my students and other colleagues is a daily activity as a teacher. I already use Snagit program that helps me to capture my screen, add my annotations, and then save it as an image file. For many years, it works well with me. However, one needs more. That's why I share with you a free screenshot tool from Microsoft called Snip with many other fabulous features.  |
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Connecting to other educators online and listening to their experiences, tips, and successful practices is my primary pathway to lifelong learning and improving my teaching skills. Teacher Entrepreneurship Week held on August 24-27, 2015 is a great opportunity for teachers to update their expertise and try to cope up with all the recent trends of teaching and learning. 
As a writer or a teacher, sometimes one needs some images of high quality for inspiration or reusing. Unsplash provides you with lots of them for FREE.
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Life is short and all we leave behind us is some small things we do touching others' hearts. Mine is my BIG SMILE that I always draw on my face. It is my brand, hahahaa. It doesn't only recharge my energy and make me feel happy, comfortable, self-confident, and full of hope, but it also leaves a huge impact on all people around me and make them smile as well. It is contagious, isn't it? It can make a big difference in people's lives. 
Are you interested in bringing life into your classrooms and motivate your students to learn and develop their skills in a different way? It is not an easy job I know, but you can do it. In case you missed the online event held by the British Council Seminar Series on Wednesday 24 June, 2015, don't worry you can watch it now and enjoy all the stuff shared by really creative people like Alan Maley, Marisa Constantinides, Malu Sciamarelli, Nik Peachey and more. 
In case you missed this webinar about some advanced tips of Canva; an amazingly simple tool for graphic design, here is all the stuff you need. In this webinar, Canva senior designer Poppie Pack presented some great techniques that can help you to get started your journey of creativity in the world of design. She played with colors, font, text spacing, some photo editing tools like brightness, contrast, saturation, tint, blur, x-process and vignette, and adding transparency. 
How it would go if I were a creative teacher? Is it an easy job to start learning creativity? What tools should I have to bring creativity into my classrooms? A lot of questions like that come out when opening discussions around this term. Today, I have found 2 free online opportunities that can help teachers to discover some new ways to improve and foster creativity in them or their students ... 
Canva is an amazingly simple graphic-design tool for free. It gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. You can create designs for Web or print. 
