Category Archives: How To

That Elusive “Voice”

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A few of you asked me during our one-on-ones about the idea of “voice” that I mention in my grading rubric. Here’s a nice chat on the writer’s voice – inspired by music – from Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute, a great writing coach I trained with years go: How to incorporate tone, rhythm & voice in your writing. Roy also has a piece on the blogger’s voice: From Pepys to Your Peeps, Finding Your Voice as a Blogger. Let me know what you think of these pieces – good or bad.

There’s also available, free through the Research Center, Poynter NewsU webinars like this one: Write with Voice and Tone: Poynter Writing Series. If anyone’s interested in watching the webinar in a small group, so that we can discuss it together afterwards, I’d be more than happy to arrange and join in.

How To: Upload Photos from an SD Card

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Uploading photos, or video, from an SD card is easy. The best and simplest method is the Drag and Drop.

Insert the SD card (the memory card inside the camera) into the slot on the left-hand side of your laptop.

An icon that looks like an SD card will appear on your desktop.

Create a folder in the desired destination for your photos. Example: Your project is Jobs. Your project folder is named Jobs. Create a folder inside “Jobs” named “Jobs Photos.”

Open both “Jobs Photos” and the SD card in Finder. Inside the SD folder should be a DCIM folder — this is where you files are. Select all your files. Drag them into “Jobs Photos.” The files will transfer. You’re done!

How To: Subscribe to the RSS Feed

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To subscribe to this blog’s (or any other blog’s) RSS Feed.

1. Click the orange icon, shown below, not the “Interactive Glenn Thurs.”

Screen shot of RSS

Screen shot of RSS

2. You will be directed to a Google page. Click Add to Google Reader.

3. You should now see a Google reader page with posts from the blog listed. You are subscribed.

Other option:

On Google reader home page, look in the upper left corner. There is an Add Subscription button. Clicking on it will open a search option. Enter key words and search. A list will come up. Click the subscribe button under the blog you would like to subscribe to, or click the blog’s link and then the subscribe button at the top.