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Photo Editing & Photo Enhancing Using Apps June 25 Starting point was this original photo: New Territories on top of Cloudy Hill, Hong Kong, September 2022 .  Taken by myself on an iPhone 13 MaxPro whilst out on a hike. It a good composition, in terms of diagonal balance and proportions, however I wanted to used the mountain and floral foreground as a starting point for a digital watercolour composition , in a square format. I used Procreate to edit this photo, bringing the foreground over the background to form a square.

Note. Image generated with the prompt "What is an 'ism'? It is described as a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement." by OpenArt Creative, Realistic Vision V5.1 2023. ( https://openart.ai/history ) Well thanks to my colleague, I was encouraged to post some of my thoughts about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how we might use it in an educational setting.  I was looking for a simple effective platform, looked at WordPress (considering I am tech-savvy for my dyslexic brain this is and has never been intuitive! Then I looked at resurrecting my WIX website. This has strangely disappeared into the ether. So instead of starting from scratch to build a blog and as I already have my thoughts in written form in my Google Drive, I am going to resurrect this Blogger site, and drag it into the 2020s - the last posting was in 2012! So,      Hello!       Guten Tag!     ...

Learning Vision This morning I found a really good link for educators who are iPad beginners. It gives you a both practical and pedagogical reasons for integrating the use of mobile learning tools such as iPhones and iPads.  The web link is:  www.interactioneducation.com There are two great Scribd presentations  which you need to read through and digest the content, but are very eloquently put together and reflect my own experience with using iPads, iPhone and a whole host of mobile devices within my classrooms.   This image is taken from the first presentation, and is from another great educator Stephen Heppell from his website  http://www.heppell.net/ .  Listened to Stephen as a keynote speaker  and attended his workshops  a couple of years ago at the annual 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong.  http://21clhk.org/ . Check out his Be Very Afraid events and Cloud Learn . Online software mentioned i...