“Behold is a search engine that is designed to help you find the best Creative Commons licensed images for your blog, slideshow, or video project. Behold searches the catalog of more than one million Creative Commons licensed images on Flickr. What makes Behold different from just searching by using the license filter on Flickr itself is that Behold searches not just by image tag but also by the quality of the content of the images. When it works correctly if you used Behold to search for images of “buildings in New York City” you would not only be searching the tags people assigned to their images, but you would also be searching the actual content of the images.

Applications for Education
When students create multimedia projects in my classroom, I require them to use either Creative Commons or Public Domain images if they don’t create their own images. I do this to teach and reinforce the point that they cannot just grab and re-use images without regard for Copyright. Behold could help my students find quality images that meet my Creative Commons requirement.”

(via. FreeTech4Teachers)

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I Work in Pages: Design a holiday greeting in Pages:

“With the holiday season approaching many of you will be looking for ways to do greetings projects. Pages is a fun tool to accomplish them – with all the family taking part.

Clipart is one way of designing a greeting card. But there are tools in Pages that let you design your own original holiday greeting. Here, I have put together a list of posts about tools, techniques and tricks that can help you design an original greeting. (The apple image top right  is designed in Pages, read how to here)

It seems that many Pages users are simply unaware of the power that Draw Tool gives. It is not just curving lines you can create with it,  with drawing tool you can do exactly what it says – draw. And ‘write’ too. In fact, you can create your own full alphabet in any language – and original cards and drawings. I have published several articles here on various uses of the drawing tool.

Here is a list of posts about curving lines and irregular shapes:

Curving lines and shapes – make them in Pages

Doodling memorable dates in Pages

Creating clipart and original shapes in Pages

Designing D-Day map in Pages

Doodles: Picasso’s room

Jigsaw cutouts with Pages

Christmas graphics and clipart: a few easy tricks

Valentine: make your own in Pages

Drawing letters and numbers in Pages: Happy New Year

Yes, we can: drawing in Pages

Keeping your lines straight

How to design folders

Maps in Pages

(Via I Work in Pages.)

by Sang Tang via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

In Apple’s iWork suite, the ‘Paste and Match Style’ or ‘Paste Style’ options, as implied in their names, allow you to paste the style from one element onto another; or to paste an element into a document and to match the style of the document that it’s getting pasted to. In many ways, they’re the iWork equivalent of ‘format painter’ found in Microsoft Office. And, in many ways, they’re much better.

For example, say I’m working on a presentation on my company’s frozen banana sales in Keynote. I’ve created my first slide, with a title of ‘Frozen Bananas Sold.’

But, I also have a Numbers document that I’m working on, and I want to take the ‘Frozen Bananas Sold’ title to have the same font and color as the ‘Bluth’s Frozen Bananas – Balance Sheet.’ To do this, I’ll need to click on the ‘Bluth’s Frozen Bananas – Balance Sheet’ element and select ‘Copy Style’ (or command-option-c) from the Format menu within Numbers. Then, I’ll need to move back to the Keynote document, click on the ‘Frozen Bananas Sold’ element, and select ‘Paste Style’ (command-option-v) from the Format menu. Now, the title of my Keynote presentation has the same font formatting as title from my Numbers document.

While the ‘Paste Style’ option allows you to apply the style elements from one element onto another, ‘Paste and Match Style,’ on the other hand, applies a document’s style onto the object that’s being pasted. For instance, in my Numbers document, I have a sales chart that I’d like to paste onto my Keynote document.

Unfortunately, the font is dark, which would clash with the colors of my Keynote presentation. With the ‘Paste and Match Style’ option, my chart will take on the style elements of my Keynote document.”

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com).)

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What: Pages Workshop
When: October 29, 3:30 pm
Where: Madison School MRC

Madison School 32&U representatives: Julie Vladika, Lorene Himpelmann, and Kathy Muller will be hosting a hands on workshop on Pages after school October 29, in the Madison MRC. A great opportunity for hands on training from some very talented people.

For a full listing of upcoming 32&U training opportunities check out the 32&U Training Calendar.

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What: Pages Workshop
When: November 2, 3:30 pm
Where: The Lane School MRC

Stephanie Stieglitz, Lane School MRC Director, and member of the 32&U will be hosting an after school session on Pages at 3:30 PM, November, 2 at the Lane School. This is great opportunity to work in a small group with a very talented instructor.

For a full listing of upcoming 32&U training opportunities check out the 32&U Training Calendar.