A teacher on the Montessori Cluster discussion forum just asked about inserting a slideshow of their selected photos into their blog.
I can see two easy ways to do this but there are probably more. If you know other tools and techniques please share them here in a comment and we will share them further.
1. A Slideshow Widget
The easiest way to do this seems to be to add a widget.The advantage is that it stays on your blog home page.
In order to do this you will need an account with Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums or Flikr. If you don't know how to do this, go to UTube for some videos that show you how or just follow the on screen instructions.
BUT FIRST!!! Have you considered the cyber safety issues. Do you have informed consent from families and from children? Go to your Cybersafety kit and/or to Netsafe for information.
go to the Layout button ( We are using Blogger), click on that and then click on "Add a gadget". Scroll down through the gadgets till you find 'Slideshow and add this. You will be offered a choice of using your own website, Flikr, Photobucket or Picasa Web Albums.
2. Add a slideshow as a post
You may have seen these on some other ece centre blogs.
These get uploaded as a post onto your blog and so will eventually be moved to the archive section. But perhaps you want to keep updated slidehows visible anyway.
Many centres are using either IMovie ( for Apple Macs and generally comes wit your Mac) Photo Story 3 (for PCs this is a free download) or Smilebox for which there is also a free download. Smilebox videos can be very slow to open but look great.
You make the video and then upload as a video post to your blog using the video button on the tool bar of the post box. its up there on the right at the end.
I hope this answers the questions for now.
I cannot say which is better out of all these applications as I havent used them all that much so please feel free to comment if you have.
regards
Maureen
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