Apple+Tools

= Provided by Glenn Story at = Te Akau ki Papamoa School = =

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Use the Spore Creature Creator to inspire a poetry or literacy experience!

The Spore Creature Creator is a neat free game that allows you to create 3D monsters and interact with them. Even better, it allows you to export the creatures as movie to iMovie or Windows Movie Maker and voice over your poetry.

Spore Creature Creator is a free download from here: []

It's on Youtube!



Comic Life word picture.

I saw this first in Annette's class at Mount Primary School - grab a nice clear picture and use the comic life LETTERING tool to drag similes, adjectives, ideas, concepts, onomatopoeia - anything that can be written that is related to your picture. Resize the words so they fill the picture nicely, delete the picture and you've got a word picture.

= = = Provided by Dorothy Burt at Pt. England School. =

**Keynote to create web images**

Whether for your blog, a wiki or your school website

Keynote is a really simple, free tool to create some cool images for your online spaces.

If you have a size restriction eg a blog header that you need to be 600 x 150 pixels




 * Start with a blank white slide in Keynote
 * Use the rectangle shape tool and draw the shape you want
 * Get the size exact using the inspector tool
 * Now this is your background - just to guide the size - we will delete it at the end
 * Layer your image and text on top of the shape
 * When it looks how you want, delete the original shape in behind it all
 * Use Shift/ Command /4 to snap it
 * Upload to your online space - prefect size fit for the space!



= = = Provided by Matt Thomas at Selwyn Ridge School .=

**Use text shortcuts to type repetitive words and** **fractions quickly**

Open up System Preferences and select the "Language & Text" option. Select the "Text" tab, and then tick all of the fractions options. You can also put in shortcuts for text you write all the time, and it automagically expands! I have 'SRP' set to turn into 'Selwyn Ridge Primary' and 'm@' to turn into my school email address.

Provided by Allanah King at Appelby School
 * // Writing macrons, arrows, and other less used text on an Apple is really easy and really handy for writing Māori texts. //**

// To get there go to System Preferences ☛ Language and Texts ☛ Tick Keyboard and Character Viewer ☛ Tick Māori in the list of languages. Now you will get the Māori flag in the top menu bar. To type a letter with a macron now just hold down the Option key while typing the letter ā, ē, ī, ō, ū. To get other characters click on the Maori Flag //// ☛ go down to Show Character Viewer and select the character //// ☛ Either double click it or select it and insert it. //

// Here are some that I have used a lot. ☺ ® ✂ ✓ ✗ 6° £ © ℃ ℅ ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ //