Teen Tech Week March 8-14

In honor of Teen Tech Week, I’d like to share some free online tools with you that I find very useful. I made sure to only include websites that don’t require you to register and create a user name and password. I hate it when you have to do that! Who can keep track of all that info anyway?

So here is the first one. If you don’t have Photoshop or Paintshop, try Fotoflexer.

It is a great image editor that will let you do almost everything the commercial products will. You can even clone yourself by copying a “region” of a photo. There are various filters, fonts, stickers, layers, distortion effects, and collage options to choose from. You can also draw or doodle over your picture, or resize it. The editor is quite impressive. Try it out! If you need a little help getting started, there is a demo video.

Should you ever be in need of a background removal tool for a picture, I can recommend FreeBackGroundRemoval. I've tried a few other removal tools, but this one seems to work the best and results are instant, not by email.

Try an Hour of Code! Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries in over 30 languages.
It is a one-hour introduction to computer science meant to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. Check out the tutorials and learn about the basics of coding, JavaScript, phone apps, or games.

Most of you are probably familiar with Wordle, but do you know Tagxedo? Tagxedo creates word clouds in a variety of visually stunning shapes you can choose from. It is highly versatile as font, theme, color, orientation, shape, and frequency of individual words can be customized. Check out the examples I made through automatically importing text by simply entering the address of this blog. Of course, you don't have to use random text, but you can customize your words. 

 Stay tuned for more tech related stuff this week!