Edublogs Tutorials

Please note:

this post is under review as the method outline no longer seems to work – any help or tips would be appreciated

This is now a much easier process as Edublogs is starting to integrate these add-ons into their software – if you want to show our photos simply, then this is the way forward.

Why do I think it’s so important? Quite simply because Bubbleshare is one of the nicest and simplest ways of producing digital stories. You simply take some photographs and upload them to Bubbleshare, where you can add speech bubbles and voice annotation – an excellent motivator for students, also allowing collaborative work between students with different literacy skills.

Here’s how you do it:

1. you can try it, if you wish, without registering
2. or register for Bubbleshare
3. this will allow you to keep more than one album online
4. upload your pictures
5. click on the tab which says my albums
6. click on one of your pictures to load the album
7. click on blog album
8. choose the gizmo player – thi sis medium size
9. copy the code in the box
10. click on  the html  tab at the top of your post
11. paste the code where you want the player to show up
12. Hit ’save’
13. and it’s all done – very simple
14. instant slideshow

I had not really grasped what this involved but I think delayed intelligence (or not) has finally kicked in.

I was working with a teacher today who used the upload function to host a picture on edublogs – click on browse under the edit box, then upload, after uploading, click “send to editor”

This pops the picture into the page and you can then resize it.

As previously mentioned in another post, I have been using Picasa web albums to host my pictures as I can upload them in bulk – whether I’m going to use them or not.

Adding a photo album slideshow using Picasa web albums (Google)

Anyway – to the point

If you go to your uploaded Google picasa web albums you can view your pictures – and use them easily

Just click your mouse just to the right of the top left hand corner of your picture and it will turn bluish, showing it has been selected.

Now simply copy and paste this into your blog post and resize to fit

For this, use the same information as Adding a series of photos as a slideshow

However,

1. instead of selecting all the photos,
2. just click on the one you want
3. then follow the instructions from No. 20 onwards
4. your photo will then appear on the page

From Sissinghurst …

This is a lengthy, but simple, process which is much easier second time around

For some reason this method doesn’t embed a sildeshow into your post and for this reason, I would suggest using Bubbleshare at the moment

Adding a Bubbleshare slideshow to your post

1. set up a free Google account
2. remember your login and password, you’ll need it
3. search for Picasa in Google
4. download this software
5. run Picasa
6. It will ask you to choose from
7. scan the whole computer
8. scan my documents
9. most people would choose “my documents”, as that is where the “my pictures” folder is
10. Picasa will now scan all your pictures and put them into folders
11. Find the folder with the pictures you want to use
12. Select the pictures you want to use by clicking on them
13. ctrl and “A” will do them all
14. ctrl and mouse click will select individual ones
15. Click on web album
16. This will connect you to Picasa Web albums online
17. It might ask you to log in to Google
18. you will be asked for a name for your album
19. upload your pictures
20. wait until complete
21. click on”view online”
22. when in you Web albums online, click on the picture that matches your album
23. On the lhs click on “link to this album
24. Copy the code in the box
25. In your post menu, click on code tab at the top
26. paste in the code
27. click save
28. then save and publish your post

School artwork

To add a photo to your post, if it’s online,

1. select it with your mouse (it will turn a shade of blue),
2. right click on it -
3. select copy
4. go to your post in edit mode
5. right click
6. press paste
7. you can resize as normal
8. Unfortunately, you cannot position as normal (centre, left, right) – all go to the left

With the newly updated Edublogs, you can click on the little tree icon and add your picture with a web address, so a little simpler now