Classroom Website Tune Up

Thanks for coming!  I hope you all have a chance to make your websites a little more useful and functional today.

Based on your intake slips, here are a few tips to go on:

Abby:
Article on Content Creation

Beth:
How to add a calendar:

• From your dashboard, click on Layout
• Click on "Add a gadget"
• Click on "More gadgets" and in the search box type "calendar"
• Click the + button next to the calendar you'd like to add

How to add weather:

• There are lots of weather gadgets out there, but you could try The Weather Channel's:
• Enter the Woolwich zip code
• Click "Get the Code"
• Copy the code
• From the Blogger layout screen, choose "Add a Gadget"
• Click on HTML/JavaScript
• Paste in your code
• Click Save

Susan and Jackie:
Adding a photo album from Picasa:

• Go to Picasa Web Albums (log in using your RSU1 Gmail account)
• Click on Upload to add new photos; once they are uploaded, give your new album a name
• Choose the album that you would like to embed by clicking on the title of the album from your Picasa home page
• On the right-hand side, click on the "edit" button next to where it says "Only you" and change it to "public on the web"  
• Once you've made your album public, click on "Link to this Album" and then "Embed Slideshow"
• Choose the album size that you'd like and also whether you'd like it to autoplay and then copy the HTML code that appears in the box
• Open a new tab in Firefox (go to File -> new tab) and go to Blogger
• Click on New Post (or page, depending on where you want your slideshow to be) and then click on the "HTML" tab.  Paste your slideshow embed code 
• Publish!  

Jackie and Beth:
Adding a video to your blog:

The easiest way to add a video to your blog is to connect to one that is already in YouTube.  Just click on the "Insert a Video" icon and put the title of the video you want in the search box.
Another easy option for video is to use QuickTime (software you have on your MacBook Air) to create a video:

• Open QuickTime Player
• Click File -> New Movie Recording
• Hit the red button to start and stop recording
• Click File -> Export
• Name it and save it
• In your blog post click the "insert video" icon