Are scrollbars showing up in Clicker 5® activities you download from the Attic? Got students who cannot access them and get to all the text? Do some text boxes have text that is out of sight? Here is how to make the scrollbars go away and get all the text to show! Bonus: PDF version of this tip to download!

Digital cameras, graphic editing applications, and multimedia applications are natural partners. But with so many choices for graphics formats, resolutions, display size, and print out size, it can be very confusing! The tips in Pixels and MegaPixels, Oh My! will hopefully make it a little easier to get those graphics into a project. Bonus: Example Photos and tutorial!

This Classroom Suite® activity has a new frame animation, a green spinning frisbee, to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. The animation is contained in a toolbar button. Bonus:
It also explains how to save the green frisbee button into your User Library!

Classic activities in Classroom Suite have a button with a speech balloon. Clicking this button gives the student audible instructions or directions about the assignment. It would be even better to have the instructions visible as well as audible. Here’s how! Bonus: PDF you can use as a handout for presentations.

Text-To-Speech is a powerful computer option, particularly valuable for struggling readers and students with visual issues. Once and while though, you’ll hear a word pronounced incorrectly, most often if it’s a proper name or a technical term. You can correct the pronunciation of a word in Clicker 5®, IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, and My Own Bookshelf®. Detailed instructions and screenshots for all three!

If you have several related grid sets, it makes sense to link them as an integrated study unit. This can be moved as a unit, so it is easy to share. It can be copied into the Clicker 5 shared files folder, so that it appears in Clicker Explorer. It can have a menu grid with links to all the activities of the unit, and instructions telling the student which to open first. Detailed instructional PDF. Bonus: Menu grid template!

When I did the Halloween activities, I needed a sound clip for the finale with several people talking at once. Since there was only me to do it, this could have been a problem. But luckily I had Audacity, a powerful, and better yet, free sound editing program, to help me out. I was able to generate what sounds like four different people talking together, their voices overlapping but not precisely. Download PDF with detailed instructions!

This Classroom Suite activity has a new frame animation, a blue butterfly, to use in creating IntelliMation in your activities. The animation is contained in a toolbar button. Instructions on the page explain how to reach into this resource holder document from an activity you’re building, and bring in the blue butterfly to use in animation.

Design Layers shows you how to decide what goes in front of what in your Classroom Suite activities. The tip download is a short Classroom Suite activity that will teach you how to use design layers with a frame animation in about 15 minutes! There is a demonstration, with screen shot instructions, and then you can try it for yourself.

The freeware sound editor Audacity (Mac/Win) is powerful and easy to use. After a short time with it, I could record, change the pitch so that my voice sounded like a baritone or a child’s voice, convert a sound effect to match the format of my recording, and paste in my sound effect after the recording to create one long track. Get Audacity, a tutorial, and a link to 5,000 free sounds!