In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #12–Wrap Text around a Picture
Category: Images
Sub-category: MS Office, Google Apps
Q: I want my text to wrap around the picture I inserted, but it goes under/above it. There’s a big white space I can’t type in. What do I do?
A: I get this from students a lot. Here’s what you do in MS Word:
- select the image
- select the ‘Pictures’ tab at the top of the screen
- select ‘wrap text’ from the ribbon
- select ‘tight’ from drop down menu
Text now flows around the picture
In Google Apps, click the image and select ‘wrap text’ from the three options:
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
