Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
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?
If [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Always wanted an online tool that creates cool graphs after seeing how Kathy Sierra used them effectively to enhance her blog posts.
Thanks to Steve Dembo I’ve now found Crappy Graph — excellent for creating quick, easy graphs. Below is the Crappy Graph I created (one handed while drying my hair) titled the Web [...]
Pepper Dellinger asked a really good question “Is it safe to add pictures of students doing class activities to your blog?”.
Since educators have differing views on the use of student images I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for us to discuss the issues while sharing tips and links to resources.
So can you please [...]
Taking your own photos to use as images in blog posts are an excellent idea. But uploading photos directly from your digital camera directly into your blog posts isn’t!
The photo size our digital cameras produce are:
Very large e.g. my 4.0 mega pixel digital camera photos are about 2272 x 1704 pixels and 700 KB [...]
