Cutout People for Digital Narratives
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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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