Fusion Finds » k12 http://jgarton.edublogs.org Educators Integrating Technology Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:42:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Edublogs’ Missing Buttons http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/edublogs-missing-buttons/ http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/edublogs-missing-buttons/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:22:28 +0000 Janetta Garton http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/edublogs-missing-buttons/ You may have noticed that your Edublogs’ Visual Editor is missing the Embed Flash and the Media buttons. mediabuttons.jpg These buttons are no longer need. Which is good news. The sky’s the limit on what we can now embed. The embedding process is now even easier, but with a quark.

Sue Waters, The Edublogger, provides step-by-step directions for embedding flash or media in an Edublogs’ post. An important tip she shared recommends pasting the embed code as the last step before publishing. Clicking Save and Continue Editing button may break the code and cause your embed not to display. Embed then publish, embed then publish, embed then publish. Got it?

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]]> http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/edublogs-missing-buttons/feed/ 1 Podcasting in Plain English http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/22/podcasting-in-plain-english/ http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/22/podcasting-in-plain-english/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:47:18 +0000 Janetta Garton http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/04/22/podcasting-in-plain-english/ Here’s the latest video from the Commoncraft show by Lee and Sachi LeFever.

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We found Photostory, free software from Microsoft, very easy to use. The program leads you through the steps of creating a digital story. Recording a separate audio file for each slide worked great. Customizing the motion and adding text was easy. The provided music options are a great time saver for those not wanting to find and import music. If you can’t find any tunes to your liking, you can import you own music. The trickest part was creating title and credits slides, since the program doesn’t provide options for creating such a slide. We used PowerPoint to create a credit slide, saving it as a jpg. We then imported this jpg into Photostory, just like we did all the other images.

We uploaded the production to Archive.org, because it is free and not blocked by the school’s filter. Then I used the Embed Media button in Edublogs to embed the production in this blog post. If you intend to embed the production in a blog post, be sure to click the Settings button during the Save Your Story step of Photostory, and choose “Profile for computer -1 (320×240).” The default setting is too large.

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