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How To NOT Have Problems Uploading Photos And Using Up Storage Space

Photos from digital cameras should always be resized to optimize their file size before uploading them to your blog.
Why?  Our digital cameras are designed to produce good quality photos for printing but aren’t optimal size for the web.
Reasons To Optimize Photo Size
Optimizing the file size of your photos before uploading to a post does three [...]

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Here’s My CHEATS Method For Adding Images to Blog Sidebars

I’m frequently asked how to add images to blog sidebars — so I thought it would help to share my quick and easy cheats method.
So what do you need to know to do this?
To start with you need to understand that you need to:

Write HTML code which links to the location of your image
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Want A Comment Avatar That’s Globally Recognised By Most Blog Platforms? Here’s How!

I confess!  I hate default avatars next to my comments on other bloggers posts.
It makes me feel both naked and like a newblie
I’m know I’m not the only one.  The solution is simple — set up a Gravatar account!
About Gravatar
Gravatar is a service that provides globally unique avatars.
Most standard blogging platforms support Gravatar.  [...]

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Is a picture always worth a thousand words?

What’s wrong with this picture?

Spotted it yet?
Yes, I know we’ve had similar conversations but some conversations NEED to be continuing for new educators starting their online journey.
What are your thoughts on:

Student photos and how much information is appropriate to use with photos?
What else do educators need to consider when starting to blog with their students?

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The Edublogger’s Student Competition!

The 2009 Student Blogging Challenge is now nearly half way through and the students have been working REALLY hard on the weekly challenges!  Currently 52 class blogs and 150 individual students blogs from 13 different countries are participating.
To celebrate the success of the challenge while also creating an opportunity to collect examples of student work [...]

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Embedding A Flickr SlideShow In Your Blog Sidebar

Have you speculated if it is possible to embed a Flickr Slideshow in a sidebar rather than in a post? Well Betsy asked because she wants to add one to her Merit School of Music blog.
Your options
The size of most embed code can be adjusted by pasting it into a simple text editor like Notepad [...]

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Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part III

Quite a few readers have been asking why Flickr not Picasa or Photobucket.  With any luck this last post in our Flickr series will help explain as I demonstrate some of the creative ways Flickr can be used.
Creating Cool Stuff From Your Flickr Photos
One of the best aspects of Flickr is they allow outside (”third [...]

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Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part II

Hopefully our Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part I post helped you set up and start using your Flickr account.  Now its time to learn how you can use Flickr as part of building your your personal learning network (PLN) in this second post of our Flickr series.
Connecting With Others
An important aspect of [...]

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Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part I

With time you realize taking your own photos to use in your blog posts is often easier, and more fun, than searching for and attributing creative commons images. And sharing these photos online with your friends, using photosharing websites like Flickr, is even more fun!
This post is part of a series to help people [...]

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Creating Equations Using An Online Graph Creator

Can you use too many graphs in blog posts?  Like any ideas for using images in blog posts you do need to use a mixture  to keep it interesting for readers.
However I’m sure you would want to know about more online graph creators, especially one that can be used to as an equation editor.  Thanks [...]

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