Free Stuff Friday: FreeMind
In a nutshell: FreeMind is opensource software useful for brainstorming projects, taking notes, and organizing, well, almost anything. Useful for: Teachers Students Writers Nonprofit administrators Anyone who needs to organize stuff Why I Like It: I was skeptical about “mindmapping” software at first. What could this do for me and my writing that I couldn’t [...]
Free Stuff Friday: Scribus
In a nutshell: Scribus is an open-source alternative to Adobe’s InDesign which allows the user to design a page (or a book, brochure, etc.) in a format similar to Photoshop (or Gimp) but with a focus on multiple pages in one document. Useful for: Students Nonprofits Writers (who like to play around with book layouts [...]
Free Stuff Friday: Fun with Flash
Free Stuff Friday is back! (Cue the cheers!) For those of you who don’t know, I love websites. I love to create them, design them, and obsessively tweak them. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’ve been playing around with flash lately. I don’t know a lot about how to make [...]
The Importance of Being Flexible
A couple weekends ago, I gave a brief presentation to a group of high school students attending their very first opera. It was exciting to have them there and to share the performance with them. I love opera – the music, the drama, the sets and costumes, the voices – so being able to talk [...]
Budget Increase for Arts and Humanities Endowments
“This important budget increase recognizes the essential role the arts play in our lives, schools, and communities,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and chief of Americans for the Arts, an advocacy group, in a statement. Click here to read the full article that made my day.
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