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For Kids
For Teachers
For Genealogists
For Librarians
For Digital
Camera Photographers
For Artists
and Crafters
For Web Users
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What They Say About
Scanning for Kids
of All Ages
Florida
Media Quarterly; Spring 2004
published by
Florida Association of Media in Education
Looking for a workbook to use with a multimedia class? Try this
short book which teaches your students how to scan and edit
all sorts of pictures, articles, etc. Yes, I thought I knew
all there was to know about sanning too. Just put the picture
in and press "scan".
But this little book shows a step by step process to get the most
out of your scanner and help studens edit images to create a presentation
they can be proud of. Younger students will learn vocabulary such
as "resolution", "bit", "histogram" and
more. The workbook includes quizzes and suggested projects,
both of which could be used easily with a class or with individual
students to show them the many uses of a scanner. You might
even arrange an in service for teachers so that they can better
use the scanner for scanning items for professional presentations
or for personal use. Recommended for all ages.
Connecticut
Nutmegger Vol. 36 #4
published by Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.
If you’re interested in scanning some photos or documents but don’t know how
or just don’t
feel secure, this is the book for you. The author teaches a course on Scanning/OCR
at the Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut and her expertise
as a teacher is clearly apparent in this book. The material is often technical,
but the author has presented it in a manner that is clear to the novice and not
beneath the more experienced scanner. Interwoven with the explanations are numerous
illustrations, some serious, some lighthearted, but all helpful in understanding
the text. Even the explanation of items such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
are clear and to the point. One will find projects suggested that will keep the
interest of the younger set but if undertaken will also help the more experienced
scanner gain proficiency. Among the subjects appearing in this book are “Scanning
Basics”, “Image
Editing”, “Pesky Formats”, and “Optical Character Recognition”.
The discussions of resolution and image editing, while technical,
are stated in terms that anyone can understand.
11th
Annual Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards,
Judge's Comments
This is a well structured book. Its format is easy to follow
and the graphics are well placed and relevant to the subject on the page. The
instructions are concise and can be followed by even the least proficient of
computer users. The quick quizzes along the process help reinforce previously
covered material. I had fun trying several
of the projects for myself.
Betsy
Lampe, FPA booth manager
at (Florida Association of Media in Education)
FAME 2003 conference
I think yours is the best-looking Xlibris book I’ve ever seen...and such a great
topic! Many, many folks wanted a copy for themselves, in fact. I knew it was
going to be a good draw, which is why I put it out on the spinner next to the
aisle (see picture at right).”
Dorothy
S. Wright,
teacher of computer basics to children and adults
Scanning for Kids of All Ages is an excellent step-by-step reference for first
time scanner users. The simple directions were easy to follow to produce
fantastic graphic productions. The information was used in my college course
at Becker College, Worcester, MA, for scanning graphic images into my Adobe
Photoshop projects.
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