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Four Ways To Emphasize the Subject in Instructional Graphics

Four Ways To Emphasize the Subject in Instructional Graphics

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

Sometimes we want to emphasize some part of an image we are using for instructional purposes. Here are four methods that we can use on instructional graphics and teach our students to use when they are creating informational materials. Adding a Highlight Color In a...
Cutout People for Digital Narratives

Cutout People for Digital Narratives

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

One of the most effective ways for students to gain (and demonstrate) understanding is through the creation of a digital narrative. Although digital narratives can be used in any subject area, I especially like to see them used in History classes. Students are great...
Converting Raster Clipart to Vector

Converting Raster Clipart to Vector

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

The ClipArt ETC website includes over 70,000 images for classroom use. The majority of the images are scans of illustrations from 19th-century textbooks, but there are also many thousands of vector illustrations created by FCIT staff. I frequently receive questions...
Signs for the Times

Signs for the Times

by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

Normally in this space, I share a digital resource for students and teachers. Today, I’d like to share a resource collection that was originally created for students and teachers, but may prove even more useful for administrators and staff of schools and...
Photo or Illustration?

Photo or Illustration?

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

FCIT provides over 100,000 copyright-friendly images for students and teachers to use in the classroom. The two largest collections are ClipPix ETC (our stock photography collection) and ClipArt ETC (our collection of illustrations—mostly black and white line...
Hidden Gem: 4,000 Drop Caps

Hidden Gem: 4,000 Drop Caps

by Roy Winkelman | Working with Graphics, Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content

ONG BEFORE THE PRINTED BOOK and before our modern conventions of paragraphs, sentence punctuation, or even spacing between words, writers of manuscripts would mark the start of a new section with a large (and often embellished) initial letter. These decorative...
Paper People for Your Preso

Paper People for Your Preso

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

If you make presentations and want to avoid “Death by PowerPoint,” here’s a collection of unusual nineteenth century illustrations of people, animals, and word balloons that might just be what your presentation needs. They probably won’t be...
Colorizing ClipArt: Using Gradient Maps

Colorizing ClipArt: Using Gradient Maps

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

This week as I was creating a colorized illustration for our TIM website, I thought it was time to add a second installment to a series on colorizing clipart. The first post was “Colorizing ClipArt: Intro to Blending Modes”. That first post included...
Using ClipArt ETC for Flyers and Newsletters

Using ClipArt ETC for Flyers and Newsletters

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

We all want to reduce paper usage and waste, but there are times when printing is necessary. You may be serving a community that does not have ready access to digital devices. You may be in a situation where posting announcements in public places is the best way to...
Colorizing ClipArt: Intro to Blending Modes

Colorizing ClipArt: Intro to Blending Modes

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics

The ClipArt ETC website has over 70,000 line art images for teachers and students. There’s a lot of great black-and-white content there, but sometimes we want to add color to an image. In this post, you’ll learn one simple coloring technique that will...
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