This week in my teacher challenge I learned that it is important to spice up your post with a picture. I thought I would try the same idea of posting 1 picture and having my students and online visitors describe the picture in 5 words or less. I am gathering this data in a Google Form (creating a Google Form was new to me, so I wanted to learn how to do this too). I used Paint.net to change the size of the image (width = 500 pixels, height = 375 pixels, resolution = 100) then I licensed my picture by uploading it to flickr – for this picture I chose to embed the small size from flickr. If you do not want your picture licensed then you can directly upload it in your blog post. In addition, I got some great tips that I wanted to share with my students by Murcha. My students also need to follow these guidelines – If you are using pictures of people, do not include their names, and make sure there is more than 3 people in each picture. Also remember to get their permission 🙂
Quick Tips By Murcha :
- Use original images or photos where possible
- If using online images, ensure you follow creative commons requirements (Flickr Creative Commons)
- Remember images may need to be resized for online use
- Make sure the file extension is jpg or png not bmp. bmp is too large for online use.
- A good image size in blogs is 500 pixels wide by 375 pixels high.
- Search for online converters or if you use a PC, try downloading irfanview (a personal favourite). This free tool allows many editing functions.
Here is my picture… Can you give it 5 words?
Fill out the survey below the picture then
Click Here to see what other people have said!