Adding a PDF to a Blog

If you want to add a PDF to your blog as a post, I'd recommend using Scribd.com.

1. Here's my Scribd home page that appeared after I signed into the site. I already had an account.


Note: Click on the image to see it full size.

2. If you have a PDF file ready to upload and know where on your computer the PDF can be found, you click "Upload," as I did. Then you browse to the file, select it, and the file uploads. Here's the web page as it appeared while my PDF file was uploading.

3. Here's the web page with the PDF, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, once Scribd finished uploading the PDF to my Scribd home page.

4. When I clicked on the thumbnail image of the document as it appeared on my home page, the link took me to the page where the actual document resides. Notice that just above the document image, there is a "Share and Embed" tab.

5. When I clicked the "Share and Embed" tab, I got this web page that provides the embed code for the PDF. I clicked "copy" that I found under the embed code and pasted the code into my new blog post (this post you are reading), making sure that I clicked the "Edit HTML" tab on the new post page before I pasted the embed code. Once the embed code wass pasted, I could click the "Compose" tab to return to editing the post.

6. Here is the PDF from Scribd.com that resulted from embedding the code in the new post.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use

Glogster Slideshow

I ran across this Glogster.com slideshow on Slideshare.com and thought I'd post it for all to see.

Glog On!

View more presentations from West Monroe High School.

A Comment about the i3cs21 Learning Summary Assignment

This comment appears on a blog post you can find here: http://tinyurl.com/yk7nmgj

Hi areid30,

I'm going to use other language to illustrate what the Learning Summary could be. Let me know if it helps.

The Learning Summary assignment should be a summary of your learning in this course.

1) Imagine, for example, that you decided to use the "top ten things I learned" as a way to structure the summary.

2) Imagine, for example, that you decided to use a wiki to tell the story; it could be a new wiki you create (1 page for each of the 10 things you want to tell about) or it could be your page on the class learning commons wiki (10 sections on the page you own in the class wiki).

3) Imagine, as you tell about the "10 things," you make reference [to] particular course experiences (e.g., reflections, readings, media, networking, experimentation, etc.) that contributed to your emerging understanding of The Three Cs of 21st Century Teaching and Learning.

4) Imagine you include videos, pictures, links, text, etc. that help me better understand what you want me to know about what you learned.

Here's the same assignment in the words of course requirements:

"You will produce an artifact (e.g., narrative, slideshow, audio, video, concept map, a wiki, etc.) that summarizes the learning experience in i3cs21. The artifact should reference particular course experiences (e.g., reflections, readings, media, networking, experimentation, etc.) that contributed to your emerging understanding of The Three Cs of 21st Century Teaching and Learning, educational technology and media. You will make the artifact available online on or before noon on the Saturday immediately preceding the last session of the course."

How to Eliminate the "Next Blog" Button on Your Blogger Blog

If you want to use blogs with your students, there is Edublogs.org.  No emails needed to add students as contributors and no "Next Blog" button.

If you want students to use a Blogger Blog you have created, I'd recommend you eliminate the "Next Blog" button on your Blogger blog. Students will have to have email accounts for you to be able to add them as authors on the blog.  NOTE: After doing so you have to type blogger.com into the URL address box to access your Blogger dashboard.

Objective: To add #navbar-iframe {height:0px;visibility:hidden;display:none;} to the following.

 

Directions

1) From your Blogger dashboard ( type blogger.com into the URL address box to access your Blogger dashboard) click on the "Layout" link for the blog you want to modify.

2) On the layout page click the Edit HTML tab.

3) Cut and paste #navbar-iframe {height:0px;visibility:hidden;display:none;} into the edit box as pictured above in the first image.

4) When that is done. Click the "Save Template" button. View your blog. Refresh the page.  

The Banner and Nav Bar are gone along with the "Next Blog" button. NOTE: Now you have to type blogger.com into the URL address box to access your Blogger dashboard.

 

Summary of Personal Learning & Major Digital Sharing Project

In the course requirements for "Summary of Personal Learning" it reads:

You will produce an artifact (e.g., narrative, slideshow, audio, video, concept map, a wiki, etc.) that summarizes the learning experience in i3cs21. The artifact should reference particular course experiences (e.g., reflections, readings, media, networking, experimentation, etc.) that contributed to your emerging understanding of The Three Cs of 21st Century Teaching and Learning, educational technology and media. You will make the artifact available online on or before noon on the Saturday immediately preceding the last session of the course.

For the "Major Digital Sharing Project" it reads:

Students will develop a digital project on a significant topic related to 21st Century Teaching & Learning. This project is wide-open to possibilities. Some ideas: series of blog posts, a class wiki or blog, portion of an online course, an online unit, a digital video (e.g., presentation), educational (subject or interdisciplinary) resource wiki, etc. You will make the project available online on or before noon on the Saturday immediately preceding the last session of the course.

As it reads, you are free to decide how you will present your summary of personal learning and your digital project.

If you are looking for ways to tell the story of your learning and to present your digital project in addition to the ones mentioned above "(e.g., narrative, slideshow, audio, video, concept map, a wiki, etc.)" and "series of blog posts, a class wiki or blog, portion of an online course, an online unit, a digital video (e.g., presentation), educational (subject or interdisciplinary) resource wiki, etc" you can check out these resources that include many examples:

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

• If you want to watch the presentation as prepared for an audience, you have to install CoolIris although it may still be visible without that installation.
  
• Listen to the audio of the presentation at the same time for the full experience.
• Be sure to check out the resources and examples further down the page.

50 Ways Wiki

• An expanded resource to complement 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story with more opportunities for learning.
• Read the page details carefully and follow the links to learn from all the resources and examples that are offered.

i3 Wiki Roll
Many examples of wikis.

i3 Blog Roll
Many examples of blogs.

i3 Video Roll
Many examples of videos.

Wiki Page: Editing and Tagging Video Tutorial

On the i3 wiki I just posted a new video tutorial on editing and tagging a wikispaces page. You can link to it from the i3 wiki navigation bar by clicking "Tutorials." Here is the link for your convenience.

• Wiki Page: Editing and Tagging - Part 1
  

Posting to Blogger Video Tutorials

I just finished three video tutorials on how to post to Blogger and thought I'd post them for your use. I also added them to an i3 tutorials page, which I created and which you can link to anytime from the i3 wiki's navigation bar. Here is a direct link to the videos for your convenience.

• Posting to Blogger - Part 1 (5:00)
• Posting to Blogger - Part 2 (4:39)
• Posting to Blogger - Part 3 (3:10)