December 3, 2007
- Textease CT on your SMART board - have you tried?
This is the last of Doug Dickinson’s recent Textease CT CPD sessions in South Gloucestershire - comments for which can be seen here.
Highlights include going on a multi-modal bear hunt, animating the moon around the Earth (anti-clockwise of course!) , kinetic calligrams and showing how to easily create videos and put them on a [...]
November 23, 2007
- Doug Dickinson and Textease CT now on Google video
These are edited highlights from Doug Dickinson’s presentation at the second Textease CT workshop in South Gloucestershire on Monday November 19th.
Despite a few issues with production (an audio glitch within the first couple of minutes, a debutant’s camerawork and the real difficulty of editing HD video on an ordinary-spec PC…) hopefully the many key [...]
July 12, 2007
- Using the colour picker in Textease Paint CT
The colour picker permits you to pickup colours that are in images and match them exactly in the colour palette.
1. Open Textease CT and drag a picture on to the page from the ‘Resource Bank’ . Resize the picture as necessary.
2. Click on the ‘Toolbar control’ button and select the ‘Paint’ toolbar.
3. Click on the [...]
July 5, 2007
- Stop frame animation
Stop frame animations can be created using clipart images or paintings that have been drawn in Textease Paint CT.
1. Open a Textease Movies CT page and click on the ‘Add Videos & Pictures’ button.2. Find the images needed by locating the folder they are saved in. If still images are being used change the ‘File [...]
June 28, 2007
- Using the calliper tool
This tool allows you to measure the lengths of sides of objects on screen. It can also be used to help you draw to scale.
1. Click on the ‘Toolbar control’ button and select the ‘Graphic’ and ‘Draw’ toolbars.
2. Select the ‘Polygon’ tool and draw a shape.3. Click on the ‘Calliper’ button . You will notice [...]
June 21, 2007
- Creating a link to a website in Textease CT
Links can be made from a Textease page to a webpage.
1. Click on the ‘Toolbar control’ button and open the ‘Additional’ toolbar.
2. Select the words or image from which you want to make a link. Click on the ‘Link’ button from the ‘Additional toolbar’. The ‘Links’ window will appear.3. Select the ‘File’ tab and enter [...]
