Some Pointers & Currently

I know how hard it is to get started blogging...and so many things seem like a mystery.  

I struggled in the beginning and had to do a lot of investigating to solve some of the mysteries.  

And then factor in TPT and TN...creating documents...WOW- that was a learning experience.  

Well, I was thinking the other day how it might help some of you out there if I shared a few things that alluded me in the beginning.  And you pros out there, you already know all this I bet! =)

1.  When you comment on a blog, it helps if you provide a link to your own blog under your name... you can do this by typing the following code below your name
(or copying and pasting it off a 'sticky note' on your computer desktop):

<a href="PUT IN YOUR BLOG ADDRESS">PUT YOUR BLOG NAME HERE</a>

2.  If you are curious as to how folks create a picture that has all the small shots of their documents' pages (as shown below), and if you are using a MAC , then all you have to do is open your document, and press control, command, and the number 4 you can take a screen shot of  whatever you are looking at.  The screen shot will come up as a picture on your desktop and you can insert it into a new document along with all the other pictures of pages from your unit.

3.  This is a good one that I recently found....  If you use Pages (in Mac) to create your documents...(before you convert them to pdfs) you can go to "file" and then scroll down to choose "Reduce File Size" and this will compact all your pics, inserts, etc into a smaller size.  It still looks great, but will make your document SO much smaller.  My last unit was like 180MB...it reduced it to 8MB! Why does this matter?  Well, when you are trying to upload it to TPT, it will go MUCH faster if it is smaller.

4.  I get a lot of questions about clip art.  Here is the most important thing you need to know: CHECK THE TERMS OF USE..and then know that the seller can change those terms anytime they choose...so be aware of what you purchase and from whom.  Sellers may or may not give you permission to use the clipart (even if you paid for it) for things you sell...or things you use as freebies.  You may have to have a commercial license for either of those purposes.  So check and then check again.  When in doubt, email and ask specifics.

Hope that someone out there might find those tips helpful!

And then there is the March Currently...

3 words...has to begin with the first letter of your last name...

First word--How students would describe you

Second word-How family would describe you

Third word--How friends would describe you

Can you tell I had a hard time with "W"?? lol

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