A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words

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 :

  1. Use original images or photos where possible
  2. If using online images, ensure you follow creative commons requirements (Flickr Creative Commons)
  3. Remember images may need to be resized for online use
  4. Make sure the file extension is  jpg or png not bmp. bmp is too large for online use.
  5. A good image size in blogs is 500 pixels wide by 375 pixels high.
  6. 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?

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