The Roles of Libraries in Teaching and Learning
INTRODUCTION:
Libraries have long served crucial roles in learning. The first great library, in Alexandria two thousand years ago was really the first university. It consisted of a zoo and various cultural artifacts in addition to much of the ancient world's written knowledge and attracted scholars from around the Mediterranean who lived and worked in a scholarly community for years at a time. Today, the rhetoric associated with the National/Global Information Infrastructure (N/GII) always includes examples of how the vast quantities of information that global networks provide (i.e., digital libraries) will be used in educational settings. An important aspect of the Library's educational mission is to promote and develop informational literacy in its users. Information literacy, in general, is the ability to identify, locate, use and interpret information effectively.
Role of Modern Libraries:
A library is defined by three fundamental functions:
(1)selection to create a "collection";
(2) organization to enable access; and
(3) preservation for ongoing use.
Although technologies may evolve to add the second function to the Web, the first and third functions are antithetical to the very nature of today's Web. The Web's successor will become more "library-like," and libraries will continue to become more "Web-like," but each will retain some essential differences from the other.
The Web is most definitely not a library now, and it probably never will be. But the Web provides a wonderful mechanism for collaboration between and among scholars and librarians who want to create "libraries" of high-quality resources on a particular topic for scholarship and teaching. Another great concern about Web resources is that they are ephemeral. Libraries select and preserve information resources for generations to come. The longevity of Web-based resources is calculated in days!
How do libraries support teaching and learning?
A library is fundamentally an organized set of resources, which include human services as well as the entire spectrum of media (e.g., text, video, hypermedia). Libraries have physical components such as space, equipment, and storage media; intellectual components such as collection policies that determine what materials will be included and organizational schemes that determine how the collection is accessed; and people who manage the physical and intellectual components and interact with users to solve information problems
Libraries serve at least three roles in learning.
First, they serve a practical role in sharing expensive resources. Physical resources such as books and periodicals, films and videos, software and electronic databases, and specialized tools such as projectors, graphics equipment and cameras are shared by a community of users. Human resources--librarians (also called media specialists or information specialists) support instructional programs by responding to the requests of teachers and students (responsive service) and by initiating activities for teachers and students (proactive services). Responsive services include maintaining reserve materials, answering reference questions, providing bibliographic instruction, developing media packages, recommending books or films, and teaching users how to use materials. Proactive services include selective dissemination of information to faculty and students, initiating thematic events, collaborating with instructors to plan instruction, and introducing new instructional methods and tools. In these ways, libraries serve to allow instructors and students to share expensive materials and expertise.
Second, libraries serve a cultural role in preserving and organizing artifacts and ideas. Great works of literature, art, and science must be preserved and made accessible to future learners. Although libraries have traditionally been viewed as facilities for printed artifacts, primary and secondary school libraries often also serve as museums and laboratories. Libraries preserve objects through careful storage procedures, policies of borrowing and use, and repair and maintenance as needed. In addition to preservation, libraries ensure access to materials through indexes, catalogs, and other finding aids that allow learners to locate items appropriate to their needs.
Third, libraries serve social and intellectual roles in bringing together people and ideas. This is distinct from the practical role of sharing resources in that libraries provide a physical place for teachers and learners to meet outside the structure of the classroom, thus allowing people with different perspectives to interact in a knowledge space that is both larger and more general than that shared by any single discipline or affinity group. Browsing a catalog in a library provides a global view for people engaged in specialized study and offers opportunities for serendipitous insights or alternative views. In many respects, libraries serve as centers of interdisciplinary--places shared by learners from all disciplines.
Formal learning is systematic and guided by instruction. Formal learning takes place in courses offered at schools of various kinds and in training courses or programs on the job. The important roles that libraries serve in formal learning are illustrated by their physical prominence on university campuses and the number of courses that make direct use of library services and materials. Most of the information resources in schools are tied directly to the instructional mission. Students or teachers who wish to find information outside this mission have in the past had to travel to other libraries. By making the broad range of information resources discussed below available to students and teachers in schools, digital libraries open new learning opportunities for global rather than strictly local communities.
Much learning in life is informal--opportunistic and strictly under the control of the learner. Learners take advantage of other people, mass media, and the immediate environment during informal learning. The public library system that developed in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century has been called the "free university", since public libraries were created to provide free access to the world's knowledge. Public libraries provide classic nonfiction books, a wide range of periodicals, reference sources, and audio and video tapes so that patrons can learn about topics of their own choosing at their own pace and style. Just as computing technology and world-wide telecommunications networks are beginning to change what is possible in formal classrooms, they are changing how individuals pursue personal learning missions.
Professional learning refers to the on going learning adults engage in to do their work and to improve their work-related knowledge and skills. In fact, for many professionals, learning is the central aspect of their work. Like informal learning, it is mainly self-directed, but unlike formal or informal learning, it is focused on a specific field closely linked to job performance, aims to be comprehensive, and is acquired and applied longitudinally. Since professional learning affects job performance, corporations and government agencies support libraries (often called information centers) with information resources specific to the goals of the organization.
The main information resources for professional learning, however, are personal collections of books, reports, and files; subscriptions to journals; and the human networks of colleagues nurtured through professional meetings and various communications. Many of the data sets and computational tools of digital libraries were originally developed to enhance professional learning. The information resources--both physical and human--that support these types of learning are customized for specific missions and have traditionally been physically separated, although common technologies such as printing, photography, and computing are found across all settings.
Role of Digital Libraries:
Digital libraries extend such inter disciplinarily by making diverse information resources available beyond the physical space shared by groups of learners. One of the greatest benefits of digital libraries is bringing together people with formal, informal, and professional learning missions. Many of the data sets and computational tools of digital libraries were originally developed to enhance professional learning. The information resources--both physical and human--that support these types of learning are customized for specific missions and have traditionally been physically separated, although common technologies such as printing, photography, and computing are found across all settings.
Digital libraries combine technology and information resources to allow remote access, breaking down the physical barriers between resources. Although these resources will remain specialized to meet the needs of specific communities of learners, digital libraries will allow teachers and students to take advantage of wider ranges of materials and communicate with people outside the formal learning environment. This will allow more integration of the different types of learning. Although not all students or teachers in formal learning settings will use information resources beyond their circumscribed curriculum and not all professionals will want to interact even occasionally with novices, digital libraries will allow learners of all types to share resources, time and energy, and expertise to their mutual benefits. The following sections illustrate some of the types of information resources that are defining digital libraries.
conclusion:
As research and teaching increasingly rely on global networks for the creation, storage and dissemination of knowledge, the need to educate information-literate students has become more widely recognized. Students often lack the skills necessary to succeed in this rapidly changing environment, and faculty need training and support to make use of new technologies for effective teaching and learning. The current environment provides an opportunity for librarians to play a key role in the evolution of integrated information literacy. Thus, technology itself may provide a positive impetus as, "developments in education and technology are beginning to help academic librarians achieve new breakthroughs in integrating information and technology skills into the curriculum"
Technology allows library services to be available to students and faculty whenever and wherever they need such services. Technology makes possible round-the-clock library services without increasing investment in human resources. In addition, research materials increasingly exist only in digital form. Such resources are available only with the application of technology. Libraries will continue to exploit the inevitable technological innovation to improve productivity, control costs, enrich services, and deliver the high-quality content that is demanded.
Reference:
1. ls.unc.edu/~march/cacm95/main.html
2. educause.edu/pub/er/erm00/pp069073.pdf
3. informationr.net/ir/3-1/paper24.html
The Roles of Libraries in Teaching and Learning
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Formatting and Editing Pictures in Word 2007
Microsoft Word 2007 offers limited formatting and photo-editing capabilities. To enable these capabilities, you'll need to work with a photo that you've already placed in a document. Select the picture to activate it and choose the Format tab from the Ribbon.
From within the Picture Tools, you can adjust the contrast or contrast of the picture. You can access these functions by selecting the Brightness or Contrast buttons on the leftmost side of the Ribbon.
Picture Tools also enables you to recolour a photograph by adding a colour accent, a sepia tone or a washout to the selected photograph. This button is also accessed at the leftmost part of the Ribbon.
Compress Pictures enables you to reduce the overall size of the document by compressing the pictures that have been placed into the document. This setting applies to all photographs in the document.
Change Picture enables you to substitute a new picture for an existing one. Selecting this tool will enable the Insert Picture dialogue box.
Reset Picture will restore a picture to its original, unedited state.
In addition to the modifications you can make using Picture Tools, Word also includes several other enhancements in the Picture Styles group. Within Picture Styles, the Picture Effects tool enables you to change the appearance of the picture by adding pre-configured effects to it.
Shadow enables you to apply a drop shadow or perspective shadow to a picture. This effect will make the photograph appear to hover over the page.
Reflection will create a reflection of the photograph.
Glow adds a glowing effect around the border of a photograph.
Soft Edges softens the edge of a photograph in one of several pre-defined effects.
Preset and 3-D Rotation apply 3-D effects to a picture, and enable you to customise the appearance of 3-D effects.
Other basic tools enable you to resize, crop or rotate a photograph that has already been added to the document. To resize, select the object and drag it to enlarge or reduce it, as you would any other graphic object. To crop a photo, click the Crop button and then click and drag over the section of the image you want to preserve.
Formatting and Editing Pictures in Word 2007
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Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
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How to Draw a Graph Using Excel
Microsoft Excel has got a great feature called Charts. Charts help us to draw graphs based on a given data. This is an excellent tool to convert your data into graph within no time. Visualize a scenario, wherein you are asked to draw a graph on sales made during different quarters by your company. Let us do this task right away.
Open your Excel program. Input Quarter names in one column (say A1). This is going to be our X-axis in our graph. The next column should be filled with the sales figures corresponding to each quarter you entered in the first column. This column is our Y-Axis. Your basic data is now ready to be drawn. All you have to do is to select the entire region of data and click on the chart wizard icon provided in the menu toolbar.
The first step in the wizard is to provide the type of graph we want to plot. Choose a type of graph. For this example, let us choose Bar graph. The subsequent steps are for further customization of the graph. You can try out different customizations to make your graph better and eye appealing. These steps will ask you to provide a Chart Title, Name for Category X,Y whether you require grid lines in your graph etc. Once you are done with customization, click finish and your chart is drawn.
There are other types of chart types, which are pie, line, area, doughnut etc. These charts can be chosen according to the type of data you want to draw.
How to Draw a Graph Using Excel
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How to Re Size Your Doll Clothes Sewing Patterns
Firstly and most importantly, you need to have access to a photocopier that can make copies in different sizes. The next thing to do is have the measurements of the doll that your present patterns fit and the same measurements for the doll you are adjusting the pattern for. You then work out how much smaller (or larger) the new pattern needs to be as a percentage. To do this you divide the measurement of the doll you are adjusting the pattern for by the measurement of the doll of the existing pattern and then multiply by 100. Repeat this for each of your measurements.
The table below shows the measurements of the Existing Pattern on a Cabbage Patch doll and the New Pattern a Little Baby Born doll that I am wanting to adjust the patterns for. I am using centermeters (cm) as it is easier for me to calculate.
Length 44cm (existing pattern) 32cm (new pattern) 32cm/44cm x 100 = 72.7%
Torso 18cm (existing pattern) 13cm (new pattern) 13cm/18cm x 100 = 72.2%
Waist 31cm (existing pattern) 25cm (new pattern) 25cm/31cm x 100 = 80.6%
Neck 20.5cm (existing pattern) 15cm (new pattern) 15cm/20.5cm x 100 = 73.1%
As the resultant percentages are between 72.2% and 80.6% I am going to use 75% as an average and the amount that I will be reducing my pattern to i.e. 75% of the original size. Now go to the photo copier, find the reduce button, set that to 75% and take copies of all pattern pieces at this setting. Then make small adjustments where necessary. In my case above, I will add a small amount to the waist as I have reduced the pattern more than I should have on this particular measurement. Now make the outfit up using scraps of fabric and test it on your doll. At this point you can determine if any further adjustments need to be made.
If your doll was larger than the original doll clothes pattern you have, you would simply find the enlarge button and set it to the bigger size e.g. 110% to make the original pattern 10% larger. You will notice that I did not worrying about the length of the arms or legs as these are easy to shorten or lengthen as necessary. If my original doll has an arm length of 14cm and the doll I am making the pattern for has an arm length of 12cm, I would simply adjust the smaller photocopied sleeve pattern so that it was 2cm shorter than the original sleeve pattern length. The same would apply for the leg measurement if you are making long pants.
Although this method does not take into account all measurements and is based on the premise that the proportion of the dolls are the same (which is not necessarily correct), it is a great method to use to get the basic pattern for you to start from and is much easier than drafting the pattern from scratch each time you wish to make a new smaller or larger pattern.
How to Re Size Your Doll Clothes Sewing Patterns
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Video Clips. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
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The Roles of Libraries in Teaching and Learning
INTRODUCTION:
Libraries have long served crucial roles in learning. The first great library, in Alexandria two thousand years ago was really the first university. It consisted of a zoo and various cultural artifacts in addition to much of the ancient world's written knowledge and attracted scholars from around the Mediterranean who lived and worked in a scholarly community for years at a time. Today, the rhetoric associated with the National/Global Information Infrastructure (N/GII) always includes examples of how the vast quantities of information that global networks provide (i.e., digital libraries) will be used in educational settings. An important aspect of the Library's educational mission is to promote and develop informational literacy in its users. Information literacy, in general, is the ability to identify, locate, use and interpret information effectively.
Role of Modern Libraries:
A library is defined by three fundamental functions:
(1)selection to create a "collection";
(2) organization to enable access; and
(3) preservation for ongoing use.
Although technologies may evolve to add the second function to the Web, the first and third functions are antithetical to the very nature of today's Web. The Web's successor will become more "library-like," and libraries will continue to become more "Web-like," but each will retain some essential differences from the other.
The Web is most definitely not a library now, and it probably never will be. But the Web provides a wonderful mechanism for collaboration between and among scholars and librarians who want to create "libraries" of high-quality resources on a particular topic for scholarship and teaching. Another great concern about Web resources is that they are ephemeral. Libraries select and preserve information resources for generations to come. The longevity of Web-based resources is calculated in days!
How do libraries support teaching and learning?
A library is fundamentally an organized set of resources, which include human services as well as the entire spectrum of media (e.g., text, video, hypermedia). Libraries have physical components such as space, equipment, and storage media; intellectual components such as collection policies that determine what materials will be included and organizational schemes that determine how the collection is accessed; and people who manage the physical and intellectual components and interact with users to solve information problems
Libraries serve at least three roles in learning.
First, they serve a practical role in sharing expensive resources. Physical resources such as books and periodicals, films and videos, software and electronic databases, and specialized tools such as projectors, graphics equipment and cameras are shared by a community of users. Human resources--librarians (also called media specialists or information specialists) support instructional programs by responding to the requests of teachers and students (responsive service) and by initiating activities for teachers and students (proactive services). Responsive services include maintaining reserve materials, answering reference questions, providing bibliographic instruction, developing media packages, recommending books or films, and teaching users how to use materials. Proactive services include selective dissemination of information to faculty and students, initiating thematic events, collaborating with instructors to plan instruction, and introducing new instructional methods and tools. In these ways, libraries serve to allow instructors and students to share expensive materials and expertise.
Second, libraries serve a cultural role in preserving and organizing artifacts and ideas. Great works of literature, art, and science must be preserved and made accessible to future learners. Although libraries have traditionally been viewed as facilities for printed artifacts, primary and secondary school libraries often also serve as museums and laboratories. Libraries preserve objects through careful storage procedures, policies of borrowing and use, and repair and maintenance as needed. In addition to preservation, libraries ensure access to materials through indexes, catalogs, and other finding aids that allow learners to locate items appropriate to their needs.
Third, libraries serve social and intellectual roles in bringing together people and ideas. This is distinct from the practical role of sharing resources in that libraries provide a physical place for teachers and learners to meet outside the structure of the classroom, thus allowing people with different perspectives to interact in a knowledge space that is both larger and more general than that shared by any single discipline or affinity group. Browsing a catalog in a library provides a global view for people engaged in specialized study and offers opportunities for serendipitous insights or alternative views. In many respects, libraries serve as centers of interdisciplinary--places shared by learners from all disciplines.
Formal learning is systematic and guided by instruction. Formal learning takes place in courses offered at schools of various kinds and in training courses or programs on the job. The important roles that libraries serve in formal learning are illustrated by their physical prominence on university campuses and the number of courses that make direct use of library services and materials. Most of the information resources in schools are tied directly to the instructional mission. Students or teachers who wish to find information outside this mission have in the past had to travel to other libraries. By making the broad range of information resources discussed below available to students and teachers in schools, digital libraries open new learning opportunities for global rather than strictly local communities.
Much learning in life is informal--opportunistic and strictly under the control of the learner. Learners take advantage of other people, mass media, and the immediate environment during informal learning. The public library system that developed in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century has been called the "free university", since public libraries were created to provide free access to the world's knowledge. Public libraries provide classic nonfiction books, a wide range of periodicals, reference sources, and audio and video tapes so that patrons can learn about topics of their own choosing at their own pace and style. Just as computing technology and world-wide telecommunications networks are beginning to change what is possible in formal classrooms, they are changing how individuals pursue personal learning missions.
Professional learning refers to the on going learning adults engage in to do their work and to improve their work-related knowledge and skills. In fact, for many professionals, learning is the central aspect of their work. Like informal learning, it is mainly self-directed, but unlike formal or informal learning, it is focused on a specific field closely linked to job performance, aims to be comprehensive, and is acquired and applied longitudinally. Since professional learning affects job performance, corporations and government agencies support libraries (often called information centers) with information resources specific to the goals of the organization.
The main information resources for professional learning, however, are personal collections of books, reports, and files; subscriptions to journals; and the human networks of colleagues nurtured through professional meetings and various communications. Many of the data sets and computational tools of digital libraries were originally developed to enhance professional learning. The information resources--both physical and human--that support these types of learning are customized for specific missions and have traditionally been physically separated, although common technologies such as printing, photography, and computing are found across all settings.
Role of Digital Libraries:
Digital libraries extend such inter disciplinarily by making diverse information resources available beyond the physical space shared by groups of learners. One of the greatest benefits of digital libraries is bringing together people with formal, informal, and professional learning missions. Many of the data sets and computational tools of digital libraries were originally developed to enhance professional learning. The information resources--both physical and human--that support these types of learning are customized for specific missions and have traditionally been physically separated, although common technologies such as printing, photography, and computing are found across all settings.
Digital libraries combine technology and information resources to allow remote access, breaking down the physical barriers between resources. Although these resources will remain specialized to meet the needs of specific communities of learners, digital libraries will allow teachers and students to take advantage of wider ranges of materials and communicate with people outside the formal learning environment. This will allow more integration of the different types of learning. Although not all students or teachers in formal learning settings will use information resources beyond their circumscribed curriculum and not all professionals will want to interact even occasionally with novices, digital libraries will allow learners of all types to share resources, time and energy, and expertise to their mutual benefits. The following sections illustrate some of the types of information resources that are defining digital libraries.
conclusion:
As research and teaching increasingly rely on global networks for the creation, storage and dissemination of knowledge, the need to educate information-literate students has become more widely recognized. Students often lack the skills necessary to succeed in this rapidly changing environment, and faculty need training and support to make use of new technologies for effective teaching and learning. The current environment provides an opportunity for librarians to play a key role in the evolution of integrated information literacy. Thus, technology itself may provide a positive impetus as, "developments in education and technology are beginning to help academic librarians achieve new breakthroughs in integrating information and technology skills into the curriculum"
Technology allows library services to be available to students and faculty whenever and wherever they need such services. Technology makes possible round-the-clock library services without increasing investment in human resources. In addition, research materials increasingly exist only in digital form. Such resources are available only with the application of technology. Libraries will continue to exploit the inevitable technological innovation to improve productivity, control costs, enrich services, and deliver the high-quality content that is demanded.
Reference:
1. ls.unc.edu/~march/cacm95/main.html
2. educause.edu/pub/er/erm00/pp069073.pdf
3. informationr.net/ir/3-1/paper24.html
The Roles of Libraries in Teaching and Learning
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Video Clips. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
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Vintage Crochet Patterns - As Old As Time
Crocheting, I bet you've heard of this before. Most people have, it's a hobby as old as time. It's been around for years, and it's been estimated that the hobby started as far back as the 1500s! Unfortunately no proof has ever been brought forth as to when it actually originated.
Have you ever wondered where and when this needlework hobby started? According to the September 1997 newsletter of the Crochet Guild of America, a researcher theorized that the art of crochet could be traced as far back as 1500s in Italy. However, there is no solid evidence for this statement.
But even so, we can only imagine that this craft has been around for the longest time. And it has evolved from making only home décor works to stitching clothes and other fashion accessories as well.
Reminiscing
Crocheting can let you do a lot of things. From small purses to jackets and sweaters, there are a lot of options to choose from. But there are probably some hobbyists that are looking for those old, classic patterns that can usually be seen during the early 1900s or even earlier. To help you in finding those hard-to-look for patterns, here are some resources that you can check out in the World Wide Web.
- Vintage Crochet Patterns. Tabitha Gibbons, the owner of this web site, offers several volumes of crochet patterns books. She sells a wide selection of vintage crochet patterns, from little doilies, rugs, afghans to bed covers and table cloths. By visiting her web site, one can fill out the name and email form to receive a free pattern book.
- Crochet Treasures. "Patterns from the past; Creating heirlooms for tomorrow..." This is the slogan of this web site with a collection of classic patterns. It is a member-based site that offers over 950 vintage patterns to its subscribers. For visitors, it also offers about 25 free vintage crochet patterns for personal use. However, it is not accepting new members at the moment until further notice by the owner.
- Celt's Vintage Crochet. Yet another vintage crochet patterns site, this really has a wide variety of vintage patterns to choose from. And the best thing about this site is that all of these patterns are for free! It also showcases the owner's finished projects, most of which are doilies and other table accessories.
- Soft Memories. This site brings you back to the past with its collection of more than a thousand vintage crochet patterns. The patterns are grouped in different categories - doilies, bed jackets and slippers, hanky edgings, potholders, ruffles and flowers, doll clothes, and other home décor pieces. All of these patterns can be viewed and printed out by subscribing to the site. There are also a few free patterns available for visitors to get a peak of what the site has to offer.
- Vintage Crochet Patterns e-book. This sort-of e-book contains 20 wonderful vintage patterns that are easy to crochet and can be hits in fairs and bazaars. Some examples of the patterns available are the crochet work bag, beaded doily, and the wedding ring bedspread. This is a portable document file (pdf) that can be downloaded for free from Crochet and Knitting web site.
- 1800's to Early 1900's Vintage Pattern Links. This site, authored by a lady named Martha who is also known as StarGazer, has several links to patterns that were designed way back 1800s up to 1930s. These patterns can be accessed for free. The site also has links to other web sites that offer vintage crochet patterns.
- Antique Crochet Patterns. This section in the web site Knitting-Crochet has almost a hundred of vintage patterns categorized into baby pieces, men's or ladies' wear, slippers, tablecloth, doily, and many others. It also offers to convert your knitting patterns to crochet and vice versa. Best of all, these patterns are free to access and print for personal use!
- Antique Crochet Patterns. This one is different from the site above as this is the web site name itself, not just a section. This site offers vintage crochet patterns from 1850s to 1950s and all of these are baby items such as bonnet, booties, hat, jumper, afghan, and a lot more. It also provides free lesson for the wannabes and beginners of this needlecraft.
These are just a few of the tons of resources you can find online that offers hard-to-find vintage patterns. Whether free or fee-based, these sites and resources can surely take you back in time with the wonderful, classical patterns that they offer.
If you are a crochet hobbyist you may seriously consider checking out these online resources. You should be able to find a huge variety of patterns for free, as well as purchasable ones. Whether you're a crochet master, or a novice of this eloquent hobby, these patterns will surely please you in many ways.
To learn more about getting started in crochet please visit [http://www.startcrocheting101.com] now.
Vintage Crochet Patterns - As Old As Time
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Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
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Ideas for Mixed Media and Altered Art Projects
As more craft instruction moves to the Internet, it is getting easier to find a wide range of ideas for mixed media and altered art projects. Mixed media and "altered art" are often considered buzzwords for craft techniques that bridge the gap between crafting and fine art. In fact, many craft artists regularly show their altered art pieces in galleries and fine art shows.
So what is altered art? Altered art is a combination of techniques that can include anything from making collages to stamping; enameling to embellishing. It is usually done on a household item or book to reflect a creative theme, or narrative.
On one crafting web site, it is possible to learn the mixed media techniques that are most commonly used to create altered art. These include layering paper and other mediums to make a beautifully collage mask, using polymer clay as a painting medium to create a still life floral clay painting, and learning how to make your own travel altar.
If you are looking to expand your skill set to include collage, clay painting, and other textured effects, online art instruction classes for beginners, intermediate and advanced skill levels are available in the internet. Their range of offerings includes ideas for mixed media and altered art projects, as well as numerous crafting disciplines.
Experienced artists teach these techniques in easy to follow craft instruction videos, most of which can be viewed again and again for one price. Before you purchase, the site should offer you brief previews of each video so you can see what supplies are required. On some websites each video also provides you with written instructions on a PDF document.
Summary
You can learn mixed media techniques commonly used to create altered art and mixed media which will expand your skills in including collage, clay painting, and other textured effects. They are contained in easy to follow craft instruction videos. So for the best ideas for mixed media and altered projects, as well as numerous crafting disciplines, search the internet for "online craft instruction" to take a look at websites that offer online fine craft and art instruction.
Ideas for Mixed Media and Altered Art Projects
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Tube. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
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How to Draw a Graph Using Excel
Microsoft Excel has got a great feature called Charts. Charts help us to draw graphs based on a given data. This is an excellent tool to convert your data into graph within no time. Visualize a scenario, wherein you are asked to draw a graph on sales made during different quarters by your company. Let us do this task right away.
Open your Excel program. Input Quarter names in one column (say A1). This is going to be our X-axis in our graph. The next column should be filled with the sales figures corresponding to each quarter you entered in the first column. This column is our Y-Axis. Your basic data is now ready to be drawn. All you have to do is to select the entire region of data and click on the chart wizard icon provided in the menu toolbar.
The first step in the wizard is to provide the type of graph we want to plot. Choose a type of graph. For this example, let us choose Bar graph. The subsequent steps are for further customization of the graph. You can try out different customizations to make your graph better and eye appealing. These steps will ask you to provide a Chart Title, Name for Category X,Y whether you require grid lines in your graph etc. Once you are done with customization, click finish and your chart is drawn.
There are other types of chart types, which are pie, line, area, doughnut etc. These charts can be chosen according to the type of data you want to draw.
How to Draw a Graph Using Excel
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Video Clips. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
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Ideas for Mixed Media and Altered Art Projects
As more craft instruction moves to the Internet, it is getting easier to find a wide range of ideas for mixed media and altered art projects. Mixed media and "altered art" are often considered buzzwords for craft techniques that bridge the gap between crafting and fine art. In fact, many craft artists regularly show their altered art pieces in galleries and fine art shows.
So what is altered art? Altered art is a combination of techniques that can include anything from making collages to stamping; enameling to embellishing. It is usually done on a household item or book to reflect a creative theme, or narrative.
On one crafting web site, it is possible to learn the mixed media techniques that are most commonly used to create altered art. These include layering paper and other mediums to make a beautifully collage mask, using polymer clay as a painting medium to create a still life floral clay painting, and learning how to make your own travel altar.
If you are looking to expand your skill set to include collage, clay painting, and other textured effects, online art instruction classes for beginners, intermediate and advanced skill levels are available in the internet. Their range of offerings includes ideas for mixed media and altered art projects, as well as numerous crafting disciplines.
Experienced artists teach these techniques in easy to follow craft instruction videos, most of which can be viewed again and again for one price. Before you purchase, the site should offer you brief previews of each video so you can see what supplies are required. On some websites each video also provides you with written instructions on a PDF document.
Summary
You can learn mixed media techniques commonly used to create altered art and mixed media which will expand your skills in including collage, clay painting, and other textured effects. They are contained in easy to follow craft instruction videos. So for the best ideas for mixed media and altered projects, as well as numerous crafting disciplines, search the internet for "online craft instruction" to take a look at websites that offer online fine craft and art instruction.
Ideas for Mixed Media and Altered Art Projects
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Tube. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
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Formatting and Editing Pictures in Word 2007
Microsoft Word 2007 offers limited formatting and photo-editing capabilities. To enable these capabilities, you'll need to work with a photo that you've already placed in a document. Select the picture to activate it and choose the Format tab from the Ribbon.
From within the Picture Tools, you can adjust the contrast or contrast of the picture. You can access these functions by selecting the Brightness or Contrast buttons on the leftmost side of the Ribbon.
Picture Tools also enables you to recolour a photograph by adding a colour accent, a sepia tone or a washout to the selected photograph. This button is also accessed at the leftmost part of the Ribbon.
Compress Pictures enables you to reduce the overall size of the document by compressing the pictures that have been placed into the document. This setting applies to all photographs in the document.
Change Picture enables you to substitute a new picture for an existing one. Selecting this tool will enable the Insert Picture dialogue box.
Reset Picture will restore a picture to its original, unedited state.
In addition to the modifications you can make using Picture Tools, Word also includes several other enhancements in the Picture Styles group. Within Picture Styles, the Picture Effects tool enables you to change the appearance of the picture by adding pre-configured effects to it.
Shadow enables you to apply a drop shadow or perspective shadow to a picture. This effect will make the photograph appear to hover over the page.
Reflection will create a reflection of the photograph.
Glow adds a glowing effect around the border of a photograph.
Soft Edges softens the edge of a photograph in one of several pre-defined effects.
Preset and 3-D Rotation apply 3-D effects to a picture, and enable you to customise the appearance of 3-D effects.
Other basic tools enable you to resize, crop or rotate a photograph that has already been added to the document. To resize, select the object and drag it to enlarge or reduce it, as you would any other graphic object. To crop a photo, click the Crop button and then click and drag over the section of the image you want to preserve.
Formatting and Editing Pictures in Word 2007
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Tube. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
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How to Draw a Graph Using Excel
Microsoft Excel has got a great feature called Charts. Charts help us to draw graphs based on a given data. This is an excellent tool to convert your data into graph within no time. Visualize a scenario, wherein you are asked to draw a graph on sales made during different quarters by your company. Let us do this task right away.
Open your Excel program. Input Quarter names in one column (say A1). This is going to be our X-axis in our graph. The next column should be filled with the sales figures corresponding to each quarter you entered in the first column. This column is our Y-Axis. Your basic data is now ready to be drawn. All you have to do is to select the entire region of data and click on the chart wizard icon provided in the menu toolbar.
The first step in the wizard is to provide the type of graph we want to plot. Choose a type of graph. For this example, let us choose Bar graph. The subsequent steps are for further customization of the graph. You can try out different customizations to make your graph better and eye appealing. These steps will ask you to provide a Chart Title, Name for Category X,Y whether you require grid lines in your graph etc. Once you are done with customization, click finish and your chart is drawn.
There are other types of chart types, which are pie, line, area, doughnut etc. These charts can be chosen according to the type of data you want to draw.
How to Draw a Graph Using Excel
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Tube. Duration : 7.50 Mins.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Watch all my video & photo tutorials here: bit.ly Filmmaking DVD's etc are all here: www.tlapro.com In this tutorial I explain basic camera framing, angles and lens choice. I show that lens size really has nothing to do with framing.
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
Photography Tips: Composition & Camera Angles - Filmmaking Tutorial 14
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