Creative Blogging: Your First Steps to a Successful Blog
ISBN: 1430234288 | 336 pages | PDF

"Trainers have to be creative if they want their participants to feel excited, challenged, and involved. The Creative Training Idea Book is packed with instructions for using activities, games, puzzles, toys, and props to increase energy and active participation in the classroom, and reveals how to think creatively about training in any situation. Based on the author's nearly three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment. Readers will learn new methods for: * setting the right tone * uncovering participant needs * grouping participants and selecting leaders * avoiding and reclaiming turned-off learners * encouraging and rewarding participation * and much more! Filled with checklists, forms, resources, and dozens of ""Bright Idea"" blurbs, The Creative Training Idea Book will help trainers and their learners achieve maximum learning results."

Artistic cropping can improve a photo's focus, and a decorative element to a page or even make up for a poorly taken photo. It is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways for scrapbookers to transform standard, everyday photos and album pages into unique works of art. Step-by-step instruction introduces a whole wealth of distinctive cropping techniques; Takes beginners beyond the initial fear of cropping photos; Shows creative uses for scrapbook cropping tools; Introduces photo slices, segments, rings, silhouettes, weaving and layering for special effects; Teaches how to crop for dynamic mosaics, stained glass, kaleidoscope and quilt photo collages; Artistic photo cropping can make the difference between a plain scrapbook page and a truly great scrapbook page because the photo art speaks for itself. Whichever techniques are used, the results are guaranteed to be a "shear" delight.