Learning in the Lou

What are you doing this Friday from like 8-12? Why not join us in St. Charles for this great learning event. Why should you attend? I went last year and had a series of great conversations about education. I believe it is worth a few hours of your time. Sign up for this free event.

The purpose of this post is to serve as a guide for our summer class Making Beautiful Art. If you did not attend, no worries! You can read the post and gain some new skills to help your punch up the images you take on your mobile device. By the end of this course you will be able to: Use the Rule of Thirds when you take a picture. Edit images on your laptop. Edit images using a variety of apps on your mobile device. Prerequisites Download, install and set up Google Photos  on your mobile device. ( iOS / Android ). Download and install PicMonkey ( iOS / Android ) Download and install Snapseed ( iOS / Android ) Task 1 Take a picture of that. We started the session by taking a picture of a random table. The table was littered with assorted things just to make it a little interesting. The big idea is to start with a common object we all take a picture of. We will come back to the table and apply new skills to see how we develop throughout the session. Evaluatio...

I'm sure you are reading something this summer, why not join this program offered by the St. Louis County Library ? Signing up for the Summer Reading Club  is just a few clicks. You can even track everything online, no need for the paper forms. Can it get any better? You bet. Check out the calendar for a bunch of fun activities at the surrounding libraries. Some of these require you to register for the free classes. Examples: Story Time/Lap Time - story time for the youngest readers Art Experiences - from crafts to sewing Minecraft - have your kids go and play on the library server

Check this out! There is a free event happening soon at the Grant's View library. The event is sponsored by the Academy of Science , a St. Louis organization to help promote science interest and education in students and adults.  Why not sign up and join us for an upcoming session on June 8th from 7:00-8:30 PM. Interested? Sign up before all the spots are filled .

Check this out! Not sure if there is any room left but sign up if you are interested. Looks pretty fun.

I am a digital pack rat. I never delete emails, I just move them into a folder to give the appearance of an empty inbox. I keep all pictures, never delete even the blurry ones. All that deleting takes too much time and way too many clicks. I have the same issue with bookmarks, I have a ton. Years ago I would save them to the browser but after a while I could never find what I needed. It was nearly impossible to figure out which folder sites belonged to. Did the district page fall into the school folder or work? Sometimes I would make a folder for finance another for bank and a third might contain stocks. It was a messy system. I kept seeing all these tweets for Diigo, some type of site, app and extension for saving bookmarks and once I signed up I never looked back. Using Diigo has saved me time and now all bookmarks are a simple search away. This tool allows me to tag each site I save with different key words. I could pick a stock I want to follow ( Apple ) and tag it with ...