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Spark up your professional / social images

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Created August 8, 2017 by Carole Hunter • 613 views • 1 responses • 3 resources

Spark up your professional / social images

Good design takes time and skill…some of us have it, some of us don’t. So what do you do if you find yourself in a situation where you need a well-designed image or graphic, FAST, but are still building your design skills? There are a few web apps that are perfect for this kind of task. Two that are particularly useful are Canva and Adobe Spark. Both offer a range of preset templates (mostly but not solely for the most… Read more »

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How can you be more creative???

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Created August 6, 2017 by Liz Bracken • 527 views • 2 responses • 1 resources

Mind maps are a great way to unlock your creativity. Essentially mind maps are a visual way to organise your thoughts, do some brainstorming or planning and even make you more productive. Mind maps allow you to investigate lots of ideas quickly and then you end up with a visual overview of the problem. The software mindmup is a free application that allows you to develop a mindmap (and it’s fun!). There’s also an excellent tutorial to show you how… Read more »

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Organise your resources

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Created June 21, 2017 by Carole Hunter • 548 views • 2 responses • 2 resources

To be productive, you need to be able to keep track of, and easily find all those wonderful resources that you will accumulate throughout your degree. Luckily, there are some great tools to help organise your work. While there are a multitude of tools that allow you to pull together and publish information from various source, we’re going to suggest you have a go with Diigo – a bookmarking tool that allows you to tag and comment on individual resources and… Read more »

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Make your images look more professional with Pixlr!

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Created by Carole Hunter • 371 views • 0 responses • 3 resources

Make your images look more professional with Pixlr!

One of the common requests we have received in the workplace learning subjects is from students who want to improve their skills in image editing so that they can take their business publications to a whole new level. Many ask for support in learning Photoshop…which is fine for those with a budget for it. But what if you are on a student budget, but still want to look as professional as those with more to splash around? Enter Pixlr…a free,… Read more »

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