Soft Technology

The original idea “a digital history is more than a footprint” came from Adina Sullivan ( @adinasullivan ) whose session Matthew Lahey ( @m_lahey )attended at ISTE 2013. For our local digital citizenship campaign, we’ll be sharing these images as appropriate and discussing the digital legacy each of us creates daily as we post online. Images: Purchased from Bigstock (highly recommend! We buy the 5 images a day license) Ideas: Adina Sullivan, Matthew Lahey, Amy Mayer Further notes: “420 #4LIFE” Created with PicMonkey “Forever Wasted,” “Only Babies Love Dora,” and “Dying of Bieber Fever” created with various purchased offline software Download Images/Files: http://bit.ly/DigitalTattoo

Guest Blogger Charly has been a camp counselor, K-12 math tutor, and collegiate print and digital journalist. She’s currently enjoying writing and snowboarding in Utah. Have you ever wished there were an easy-to-learn design tool which would let you and your students fry up print and digital documents in the cloud? What if it were completely free and ran from your browser? Lucidpress leverages a powerful yet user-friendly interface to bring image and text editing capabilities to your fingertips. Both beginning and advanced teachers and students can jump into Lucidpress and learn the tools the first time they use it. The best part is that unlike other programs, Lucidpress allows for real-time collaboration: between teachers, between groups of students, and between teachers and their students. Lucidpress is a web-based design tool that is ideal for making posters, flyers, and digital yearbooks and newsletters. You can create professional-looking documents—both print and digital—withou