Thing 12: Media Skills

I've been wanting to learn for some time how to get rid of backgrounds of images, so I was excited to see your Silly Palm Tree.  When I went to play around with ClippingMagic I was disappointed to find there was a monthly fee to use it.  I did a web search for free image background removal programs and came across Background Burner by Bonanza. (https://www.bonanza.com/background_burner)

I took Mo Willems' Cat the Cat image to add to a class photo for a book created by kindergartners, creating the overlay using Microsoft Word.  When doing this, I noticed Word also has a background image remover! I'm looking forward to playing around with these more in the future when adding characters to pictures for student books and more.




For online photo albums I often use Smilebox and share student videos on Vimeo, which is very easy to upload to from an iPad. Examples of how I've used these to share student work can be found on my library wiki. Most recently, 4th graders created video commercials to advertise products they will be selling to raise money for a local charity.