A free tool from Adobe Acrobat: Reduce the file size of a PDF (from 19 MB to 6 MB)

There are several online applications that offer to reduce the size of a PDF file. The resolution of the photos is reduced, but the difference is not easily seen. Here is the link to the site https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html

Who needs Photoshop? I use BingBanners and their Online Design Center to get great "poster quotes" to inspire my students -- and students can show what they can do with what they learned by making posters

Click on the
ONLINE DESIGN CENTER

Here are the steps to making an excellent "poster quote" for social media.   The system at BingBanners.com is easy to learn and it trains students in how to save their work for later improvement.  

See the VIDEO

"Constant improvement" and "it takes time to make good wine" are supported by BingBanners.  The core of writing and learning how to communicate is being abve to re-write.  Rewriting happens when it's easy to get back to what we wrote yesterday.  BingBanners makes that EASY!.

Step 1:  Go to BingBanners.com

Here is the home page.
Click on the Design Center, located
under the upper left hand corner

click on BANNERS

I usually hit  VINYL BANNER

Click on the BRUSH next to STEP 4

Select the size of the banner under the colors

click on SET

SELECT the BACKGROUND color

Click on ADD TEXT (right side of the screen)

Type in the Text at TEXT LINE

Click on DESIGN to save the setup of your poster

Select the colors of the FONT

Select the FONT

Click on UPLOAD FILE to
add a photo

You can get the photo from
many sources

Remember to SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!   I've created over two dozen posters and I didn't buy them.  I just used the screen shot to share with friends.   Then I later ordered some of the posters if the clients liked the design.


Here's an example of a poster that one of my students designed.








I like this system so much, I created a video.

A student's first website.

Here's an example of a website that a student created after he saw Tony Wagner's phrase

CLICK HERE

All Students Should Have a Digital Portfolio.

The world wants to know ... What can you do with what you have learned?

Tony Wagner knows about students who are making a second and third attempt.

Tony Wagner dropped out of college twice and finally graduated from a small experimental college.
He taught at-risk students at a high school for five years before becoming a professor.

Hear his keynote address at Miami Dade College.  Start at minute 34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0j8H2iQAK4&feature=youtu.be

Wagner also advocates Digital PortFolios







http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills
Wagner talked to 200 leaders of companies and organizations and found seven survival skills.

http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills

Where can students find a free site for making websites? Use their gmail accounts

I teach my students how to build digital portfolios to show their work.

BingBanners.com

Websites, blogging, savvy use of social media

Digital Portfolios are used at High Tech High  →

See "Bill Gates Oprah Winfrey visit High Tech High" on Youtube.

Your school could have digital portfolios, just like High Tech High

www.tinyURL.com/exampleDP  an example of a digital portfolio

www.tinyURL.com/HTHDPs  See the list of student work available for the public to view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF06lpwC-ho

Students can learn how to create books.  

Click on www.TinyURL.com/ShowYourWork to see one of the ebooks I've produced.  

-- CreateSpace:  I can show students how to create their own books and get published.  The cost is "free" and the book is available on Amazon.

The ebook is at www.TinyURL.com/ShowyourWork

The webpage is www.TinyURL.com/ShowYourWork1    →

-- Web design:  I can show students how to use Google Sites to make a free webspace.

-- Gaming:  I have designed an app.  I hired someone in India to make the app, but I can show students how to design an app.

I have used "hour of code" with some students.  https://code.org/learn  

--- Photoshop:  I have basic cropping and layering experience.  I can also show students how to use Paint and GIMP and other free programs

-- Photo manipulation, cropping and montage:  BingBanners.com has a free online design center that allows students to create posters.  This is an essential element of Photoshop and the online design center is free to use for anyone with open internet.

-- Blogging:  Blogger.com uses the student's gmail account to build a portfolio.  High Tech High (San Diego high school) uses free websites to let students show their work.  You can see an example of one of these digital portfolios at  www.Tinyurl.com/exampleDP.     

Using the Internet to build skills in math and science

Poster-making:  Combining a photo with a quote is an artform on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  Students learn how to use their time effectively to boost their hits.  Math and science are taught by using the skills that students have acquired on the Internet.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-PqXQyRMH4

My TUTORING SITE

-- Youtube:  www.TinyURL.com/steveMathTeacher   my SAT tips.  (I also teach PERT and ACT test prep)

Steve McCrea  

(I show students how to make posters using BingBanners.com)

954 646 8246

email:  ManyPosters@gmail.com

Thank you for your time.

The website at www.TinyURL.com/HTHdps shows how students display their finished projects.

The students’ work speaks for the school and for the students.  Imagine if admission directors could see the portfolios of your students.   

Students at High Tech High School in California put their work on digital portfolios (websites and blogs). Why not your students?

Your students can make digital portfolios.

Here's how.  

1.  Make a free website with a gmail account.  Google Sites 
2.  Post the school work using and Drive.
3.  Share the link with other people.


See how a digital portfolio looks

Students at High Tech High School in San Diego, California put their work on web pages.

Tour of High Tech High with Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates