Mar 30 2009
How to add pictures to blog posts and pages
This screencast will show you how to take pictures from web pages, and insert them into your blog posts and pages. I use Flickr as the source for the pictures that I use as it has copyright friendly material available on it. This method of inserting pictures should work from other websites as well, but be certain that you are not violating copyright with your picture choices. Due to the size of the screen that I used for this Jing, it might be easier for you to see this by clicking the larger version. This is a large file…it will take a while but it is worth it (if I don’t say so myself)
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Dragging and dropping is so much easier that using the insert picture buttons…how did I miss that? I like your idea of linking the photo back to the site..If I wanted to actually mention the source directly in the blog post is there a way to caption the photo?
Colin Mcauley
http://www.media-literacy.ca
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@grenoble, Jane and I didn’t come across any fancy way to automatically create a caption. Just type out the source, highlight it and link it to the source.
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Hey Jane and Nathan,
Thanks for the great screencast! I have yet to add a picture to a blog post and now I have no excuse. A great little tutorial with a few shortcuts to make the job easier. You guys are the best!
Shannon
p.s. our grade 2 podcasts (way to go Sonia!) are available off our website – http://www.jackdonohueps.ocdsb.ca)
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Another way to quickly add pictures and posts to your blogs is to use Posterous .com. If you can email, you can post and create a blog. I use my posterous account to write up a quick draft, attach pictures, add a photostream, and send it off as a normal email.
Posterous reformats the post for its blog or can autopost it to to number of different blogsites that you may have. Very handy and very quick if you don’t have the time to go through the dashboard on edublogs to create a post every time.
Cheers!
Lee Winik
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Jane Smith Reply:
April 5th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
@leewin, Thanks for the tip. I will check out posterous. Always looking for new ways to make things easier
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Hi Jane,
Your screencast is a perfect for my work with the Young Writers Project. I’ll show this screencast to my 5th grade students and also create a link to it in my write-up for my project. Having a visual of the steps is very helpful and I agree Flickr’s creative commons is a great way for kids to understand attribution. Thank you for sharing.
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Jane Smith Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
@Nilah Cote, Glad that it was useful. I quite enjoy making screencasts. Thanks also for visiting 56js.ca and leaving a comment for my kids. It really validates their work when they see that others have read it.
My only concern with Flickr and kids is that there is quite a variety of pictures there. I sometimes am surprised myself when I search for different subjects that I think are straight forward and safe. I love the pictures but I do use it with caution around the kids.
Thanks again for the comments,
Jane
P.S. If you have any ideas for other screencasts let me know. Nathan is the “King” of screencast…I am trying to keep up.
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Thank you Jane for this excellent and informative video. This is the next thing I’d like to teach my students to use, and this video will be perfect to help explain. I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve added a link on my blog to this video on my “How To Videos” Page.
Thank you again!
Jason Pepper
http://jpepper.edublogs.org
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@jpepper, I am happy that you find it useful. Please feel free to link away.
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