Images

Images make your blog or wiki more interesting to look at and tell a story by themselves. To add images to a Classblogmeister blog, they must first of all be stored online.

=Online Storage of Images = [|Flickr] This is the site that Maria and Kathy use. [|Photobucket] [|Picasa]

=Using Stored Images =
 * Children who cannot yet "write" a story can "draw" a story, or the drawings can be used to enhance the text of students who are beginning to write. Children's drawings can be uploaded and then added to your online space.


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Other Resources for Adding Images to a Blog or Wiki
These resources take still photos and make them into a movie-type format, including music and some text:

[|Animoto] - Takes your photos and makes a movie. You can choose background music from different genres, and add text. Then the site makes it into a movie which you can embed into your blog, wiki etc.
 * [|Grade one] students with their "big" blogging buddies

[|One True Media] - also allows you to upload photos, add music and special effects and then share or embed your movie.
 * [|Kindergarten students] show examples of symmetry

[|Rock You] - Lets you add music, special effects, text and lots of bling to your photos. Also gives you embeddable html.
 * [|Grade one] example

[|Voicethread] - Add voice to pictures. Also allows voice comments.
 * [|Grade two] students give reports on various countries from around the world