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Bloom's Taxonomy
The Madison Metropolitan School District is dedicated to using classroom technology to its full potential. The district uses a range of computers, laptops, mobile devices, interactive whiteboards, and cloud-based web-tools. This blog is to share information with teachers and staff for training, professional development and sharing or gaining ideas across the district. The views expressed are those of the MMSD employees and do not reflect the opinion/views of the district itself.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Khan Academy - Featured on 60 Minutes
In case you missed out this on Sunday night.
60 Minutes - Khan Academy (3/11/12)
Khan Academy Website - Students and staff can login within our domain to use (not blocked).
60 Minutes - Khan Academy (3/11/12)
Khan Academy Website - Students and staff can login within our domain to use (not blocked).
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Embedding A Photo Slide Show in Drupal
Drupal editors, here is a way to embed a photo slide show into a Drupal page. Because our district has opened up Picasa for teachers (Google's photo storage application) we now have an easy way to embed photos that autoplay when you go to the page, like these:
https://staffdevweb.madison.k12.wi.us/node/426
Here are the instructions:
CREATE A WEB ALBUM WITH YOUR PHOTOS:
NOW, EMBED THIS IN A DRUPAL PAGE:
Keep mind that when using student work or showing photos of students, you must adhere to the District guidelines for showing this type of information on the web. Check with your building secretary to run a list of students in IC that are not allowed to have their photographs published online.
If you run into any problems here, you are free to email me at jrwelborn@madison.k12.wi.us
https://staffdevweb.madison.k12.wi.us/node/426
Here are the instructions:
CREATE A WEB ALBUM WITH YOUR PHOTOS:
1. Open FIREFOX and log into your district Gmail account.
2. Open a new tab and go to https://picasaweb.google.com/
3. Click UPLOAD. You are about to create an album.
4. Type in a name for your album.
5. Click "SELECT PHOTOS FROM YOUR COMPUTER"
6. Double click on the folder for your photos and select all of the photos. Click OPEN. All of the photos will transfer over.
7. Click OK when they're finished transferring.
8. At the top left hand side of the webpage are three tabs called "HOME", "MY PHOTOS" and "EXPLORE". Click on HOME.
9. Double click on the album you just created. It will show all of your new photos.
10. On the right side-bar, click the "Click here to enter an album description"
11. Add the pertinent information in the album description. At the bottom is a pull down menu called VISIBILITY. Pull this down and choose LIMITED, ANYONE WITH A LINK. Save your changes.
12. There should now be a new link on the right-hand side-bar called "LINK TO THIS ALBUM". It's small, so look for it. It has a chain-link icon next to it.
13. Now click "EMBED SLIDESHOW".
14. Select the largest slideshow size. Make sure AUTOPLAY is checked.
15. Copy the HTML embed code and click DONE.
2. Open a new tab and go to https://picasaweb.google.com/
3. Click UPLOAD. You are about to create an album.
4. Type in a name for your album.
5. Click "SELECT PHOTOS FROM YOUR COMPUTER"
6. Double click on the folder for your photos and select all of the photos. Click OPEN. All of the photos will transfer over.
7. Click OK when they're finished transferring.
8. At the top left hand side of the webpage are three tabs called "HOME", "MY PHOTOS" and "EXPLORE". Click on HOME.
9. Double click on the album you just created. It will show all of your new photos.
10. On the right side-bar, click the "Click here to enter an album description"
11. Add the pertinent information in the album description. At the bottom is a pull down menu called VISIBILITY. Pull this down and choose LIMITED, ANYONE WITH A LINK. Save your changes.
12. There should now be a new link on the right-hand side-bar called "LINK TO THIS ALBUM". It's small, so look for it. It has a chain-link icon next to it.
13. Now click "EMBED SLIDESHOW".
14. Select the largest slideshow size. Make sure AUTOPLAY is checked.
15. Copy the HTML embed code and click DONE.
NOW, EMBED THIS IN A DRUPAL PAGE:
1. Create a new Drupal page now.
2. Go to INPUT FORMAT and change the editor type to JAVASCRIPT.
3. Now, paste all of the code you just copied. Do not change anything and do not add any text.
4. Click save and revel in how awesome this looks.
2. Go to INPUT FORMAT and change the editor type to JAVASCRIPT.
3. Now, paste all of the code you just copied. Do not change anything and do not add any text.
4. Click save and revel in how awesome this looks.
Keep mind that when using student work or showing photos of students, you must adhere to the District guidelines for showing this type of information on the web. Check with your building secretary to run a list of students in IC that are not allowed to have their photographs published online.
If you run into any problems here, you are free to email me at jrwelborn@madison.k12.wi.us
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