This IntelliTools Classroom Suite® activity has a toolbar with buttons containing four new frame animations to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. Meet Gary, Emily, Todd, and Rita, four detailed walking kids who are eager see what adventures and learning experiences you can design for them! Bonus: Tips on how to get the most out of any frame animation in Classroom Suite!

I’ve found an excellent source of free photos and clip art. The free images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net are of high quality and fairly small (400 x 260, for example), ideal for including in activities. The site specifically states that the images may be used for educational work and included in software.

Page buttons make handy graphics placeholders in IntelliTools Classroom Suite®. The placeholder determines the position of the graphic and its maximum width or height. If you are setting up a template page for an activity, something you plan to duplicate and perhaps share with others, this is a great time-saver, and it relieves the user of the task of sizing and positioning graphics.

Someone recently asked me how I was able to set the trademark light blue color you see for the border and page color in the IntelliTools Classroom Suite® activities you download from the Attic. The answer involves using some built-in settings, plus putting buttons to uses for which they were never designed. Here’s how to do it! Bonus: PDF version of this tip to use as a hand-out!

Have you ever wished you could get IntelliTools Classroom Suite® to read out a text box while the activity is in Paint mode? It certainly would be handy for giving instructions in a coloring activity. Here’s a trick to make a button read out a text box in Paint mode.

Remember the fun you had as a kid reading those choose your own adventure stories? Here is a Classroom Suite® template that enables you and your students to create your own! Bonus: Tutorial explains how to use IntelliMation to create virtual reality effects!

Have you ever been building an activity, and needed a good animal photo? Browse the collection of photos Trisha Shears has made available, and you’ll almost certainly find what you need!.

I’m always on the lookout for web sites that offer free educational resources, so I was delighted to find a web site that enables you to make a scale model pyramid. If you are doing a project on Egypt, you’ll love this site! It has a printable full-color template and step-by-step instructions to assemble the four sheets into a remarkably realistic small pyramid. Bonus: Two printable sheets of stone patterns to make more models!

Just because everything is blooming, I decided to upload a selection of flower photos. You can print these out in a fairly large size to hang up in a classroom. However, if you plan to use them in an activity or on a web page, you will need to re-size them in a graphics application.

Have you been toying with the idea of setting up a web page? Aren’t sure where to start? I developed a set of step-by-step instructions for doing your first web page using Google Sites®, and some additional tips on web safety, copyright, digital photos, and other web-related issues. Bonus: Link to a site where you can publish online FREE!