Recently one of my students, Teegan, intrigued me with a link in the side bar of her blog to our class blog. It had a picture of the blog. Last Friday she shared with me what she had done. It also gave me a chance to try out the new Snip It tool I have, since our teacher computers were updated to Windows 7.
1. Step one was to capture a screen shot of the blog. I used the snip it tool, I would suppose you can use any capture tool, or even just a simple screen shot.
2. Place the screen shot into Paint and resize. Click on pixels. These are the dimensions she used. You will need to experiment and see which size fits your side bar.
3.Save it as a jpeg or some other suitable file.
4.Then upload it into a post in visual editor, before placing it in the post, change the link url to where you want the picture to link to. Then insert it in the post.
5.Change to the HTML editor. And copy the code!
6. Depending on the blogging platform now place it in a text widget if you use Wordpress/Edublogs. If Blogger then into a HTML/Java gadget. And save.
If you then see that the sizing does not fit, change the sizing in the html code, and it should be good.
I like this if there is one or two special blogs you want to link to. For example on my class blog when the student challenge starts in March this will be the way I will place a link to it.
1. Step one was to capture a screen shot of the blog. I used the snip it tool, I would suppose you can use any capture tool, or even just a simple screen shot.
2. Place the screen shot into Paint and resize. Click on pixels. These are the dimensions she used. You will need to experiment and see which size fits your side bar.
3.Save it as a jpeg or some other suitable file.
4.Then upload it into a post in visual editor, before placing it in the post, change the link url to where you want the picture to link to. Then insert it in the post.
5.Change to the HTML editor. And copy the code!
6. Depending on the blogging platform now place it in a text widget if you use Wordpress/Edublogs. If Blogger then into a HTML/Java gadget. And save.
If you then see that the sizing does not fit, change the sizing in the html code, and it should be good.
I like this if there is one or two special blogs you want to link to. For example on my class blog when the student challenge starts in March this will be the way I will place a link to it.
