What Happened to the Clip Art Gallery?: Microsoft's Clip Art Now Powered by Bing Images as of January 2015

The new Microsoft Office option to add clip art or images that are not already saved to a Word or PowerPoint document, is to click Insert, Online

Pictures, Bing Image Search (Bing Search is Microsoft’s version of Google Search). According to Microsoft, Bing Image Search provides images that are higher in resolution and more relevant. Copyright laws prohibit the use of a portion of images students find online. To solve that problem, Bing Image Search will automatically apply a copyright filter to show only Bing results that are royalty-free using a filter based on the Creative Commons licensing system. These are images that you can use, share, or modify for either personal or commercial use, however, they do suggest validating their use. Hovering over the image with your mouse will reveal the image’s source.

Creating Page Background Themes in SMART Notebook 14

Learn how to create page background themes for holidays, special events, units and topics, and save them to use again and again.

 

Directions:

1. Open SMART Notebook and click Format > Theme > Create New Theme. The Theme window opens with customizing tools on the left.
2. Type a name for your new theme at the top.
3. Select a background color for your theme on the left.
4. Click the theme text style box and customize the text options.
5. Locate images from the gallery or copy and paste images from a web site such as Google images. With the image selected, adjust the transparency using the slide bar on the left.
6. Click Save. Your new theme will be saved to Backgrounds and Themes in the SMART Notebook Gallery. You will be able to use the search tool to search for your theme by name.