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For the last few weeks, the poll has been temperamental, but I  hosted it through PollDaddy this week and all of the votes counted!  Sorry for the issues the previous weeks! The poll looks a little different, but it's far more stable!!! Now... for the tutorial! You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! For  next week's poll, I'm going to do something I haven't done before... I'm going to leave the three remaining options up without adding a new options.  Don't worry... I have plenty of ideas to add to the poll and plenty of requests I plan on adding to the poll in the near future, but I really want to blog about one of those options that's been on the poll for a long time!  I feel so bad every time someone contacts me that they've been voting forever on an option that hasn't been pi...

I am just in love with the font options in PowerPoint!  I used to do so many of these things in Photoshop, but doing it in PowerPoint makes it so much easier! This was a definite winner on the poll! For those of you who saw my previous tutorial on placing a pattern over your text, you can add these options on top of the pattern to make your font extra special!  You can view that previous tutorial below: Now... onto the tutorial! You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! As for next week's poll, I'm going to add a question that so many people often ask... how can I find "royalty-free" clipart, pictures, and textures for free?  Be sure to vote for your favorite choice on the poll!

I have to say, when I realized how easy it was to put a pattern over text right in PowerPoint I was floored!  I had been doing it in Photoshop forever and it's much more time consuming!  More than half of the votes were for how to give text a pattern/texture!  If you're looking for some textures to put over your text, scroll to the end of the document to grab three free textures!  You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! Now, for your three free textures! To save the files, just click the image to get to the higher quality picture, then right click (or Mac: Ctrl + Click) to save the image onto your computer!  As for next week's tutorial, I'll be adding a Smart Notebook option... how to "Erase to Reveal" an answer.

Happy New Year everyone!!!  I am so excited to be writing up the first Technology Tuesday tutorial on the very first day of 2013!  The winner of this week's poll was how to make text boxes that are transparent and semi-transparent/translucent! This week's poll was pretty spread out, but this choice was the clear winner! I've outline how to do this in both PowerPoint and Word!  Enjoy!  You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! For next week's poll, I'm going to add an iPad/smartphone tutorial.  Lately when I've been visiting blogs on my iPad, the mobile version of the blog has been loading, and it doesn't look as pretty!  So, I'll be adding how to change the view so it shows the full version of the blog you're visiting!

It's Tuesday again... which means it's time for another technology tutorial!  The winner for this week was how to make an outline of any text! This option won the poll its first week! So you know, the tutorial has three parts: Outline of Any Font in Microsoft Word (Mac or PC) Outline of Any Font in Microsoft PowerPoint (PC) Outline of Any Font in Microsoft PowerPoint (Mac) I hope that makes it a little easier for you to find the option that works best for you! You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! For next week's poll, I'm going to add how to make any picture into a coloring image.  I really hope this comes up before the holidays!  I think it would be so cute to make a coloring book with pictures of the students and give each student a copy as part of their holiday gift! This definitely works be...

Before I write up this post I want to take a minute to thank everyone for your sweet words on all of the other tutorials I've written!  I'm so glad that people are actually using them! This week the winner of the poll was how to make an editable powerpoint!  For anyone who has purchased clipart online for your teacher products, you'll notice it always says that the images need to be locked down... but how do you lock the images down and still keep an item editable!?  Well... here's how! This was a close one in the poll! Now, onto the tutorial! You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! You can also download those editable labels for free by clicking the picture below!    Again, this file is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download ...

It's Tuesday again!  For a while, the poll was acting screwy, but the votes were all restored just in time!  The winner was "How to Make a Simple Frame in PowerPoint!" If you want to make a more complex frame,  be sure to check out my previous tutorial:      Anyway... here are the recovered poll results! Yes, yes, I know it says 5 hours left to vote, so the votes aren't final, but I'm writing this up in NY (it's currently Monday as I type this!) and I'm not sure how much longer we'll have power!  For everyone else being affected by this hurricane... stay safe! Now, onto the tutorial! You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture! Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs.  To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer! For next week's poll, I'm going to add how to add an easy border to your pictures... like I did with the pictures on the post about my pumpkin bulletin bo...