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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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While it is easy to listen to our podcasts on this website, Jane and I recommend you try finding the PortablePD Podcast on iTunes as well.  That way, whenever  a new show becomes available, it will automatically be downloaded to your computer. Now that the podcast is on iTunes, it can easily be added to your iPod.  Imagine, listening to Jane and Nathan when you do aerobics, jog, drive, or take the dog out for a walk.

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Frequent visitors to PortablePD.ca will be familiar with our screencasts.  Screencasts are movies of your desktop and come in handy when explaining how to deal with software and websites.  Jing offers free and very easy to use software for creating such movies.

Until recently, we weren’t able to embed these screencasts directly into our blog.  Instead we would have create a link to another website.  Being self-centred types, Jane and I much prefer to keep our readers on our site at all times!

Predictably enough, I’ve created this screencast explaining how to embed it into a post.

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This post has been written on “Using tools like VoiceThread, Voki, mystudiyo, Animoto, SlideShows, Google Documents with students and embedding in blogs posts” as part of The Edublogger’s Birthday Celebration Competition.

This post won!

This tutorial is meant to support those working with Windows and Audacity.  I hope it proves to be helpful.

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Here’s a quick how-to on deleting files from your Sony ICD-UX70S MP3 Recorder.  It’s currently available at the big box stores like Staples, Best Buy and Future Shop. For more thoughts about this particular voice recorder, and why we like it so much, visit this post.

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I’ve put together a tutorial on adding a linked image and embedding a Google Translator into your Edublogs blog using a text widget.

Here’s the code you need. It’s a Word file.

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We recently received a question about how to create a student login on our edublogs blog.

Here’s a screencast on that very topic:

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We were recently asked how to go about getting your finished audio onto the Internet.  One easy and free way to do this is through Edublogs.  Other blog providers will work much the same way.  Here’s a screencast showing how it is done:

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Prefer to read instead of watch?  The following document from Round Rock ISD takes you through the same process:

Uploading Your Podcast to Edublogs

We often have our students record little pieces of sound for our podcast (station ids, announcements, etc.). A fast way to deal with the different student recordings is to take advantage of the built in capacity to Export Multiple sound files on Audacity. This allows you to work in one Audacity project and yet keep your audio tracks separate. Watch this video (created with Jing) for directions on how to do this.

We recently received a question about how to embed Google calendars into your blog.  Here’s a screencast showing how to do just that, at least if you are using Edublogs.

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If you would prefer to learn how to embed by reading – check out this How To Embed a Google Calendar in a Blog Page! (Thanks Sue Waters for the link).