Week 3: Using images
Duncan Hull via Compfight
A post looks a lot more interesting if you have included an image, as long as it relates to the topic you are writing about.
But where can you get these images?
I’ll Google it
NO NO NO
Not every image on the web can be used in your blog. You need to find ones that have a creative commons license and then you need to give attribution to the owner of that image somewhere on your post.
What’s attribution?
A note to show that someone else took the photo and they have given you permission to use it.
But how can I know that?
Using the correct images, clip art, music and videos is a very necessary skill for both teachers and students. Sue Waters has written a brilliant post showing how to find images, how to give attribution and how to add them correctly to your blog posts.
Please read this post before doing the work this week.
If you want lots of other activities for using images correctly, check out our post from the March challenge. This includes a couple of videos you could use in class regarding images.
If you are using an Edublogs blog, you have a plugin called Compfight. Here is part of the teacher’s post that Sue Waters has written about using this on your blog.
To activate, go to dashboard> plugins> find compfight and click on activate> then go to settings and change to look like mine above – #4 is what I actually change.
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Time now to get to the activities:
Many students mentioned in their About Me posts about their love of family and doing things with them like playing volleyball with cousins, or going camping during summer. So the activities for this week will need an image included.
Activity 1: Write a post about a favourite time with your family.
Include an image with attribution. If using an actual image of your own family, you need permission from your parents and everyone shown in the image. Make sure you mention in the post that you have permission to use this and maybe that it is copyright to your family so no one else may use it without your family’s permission.
Activity 2: Write a post about a person who has passed away.
Maybe a family member who you have a picture of in your family archives. Or maybe a famous person from your town or country.
Activity 3. Have a relative write a post about their parents or grandparents
They could tell you about their parents/grandparents or you could interview them and ask questions. Find an image of something that was happening in the world during that person’s lifetime. Remember to give attribution.
Widgets
- Many of you are now starting to get visitors to your blog. They may come from your own country or maybe from overseas.
- How do you keep a record of that?
- You add widgets to your blog sidebar. Sue Waters from Edublogs has written a post including 42 widgets including ones mentioning visitors to your blog.
Activity 4. Add at least one new widget to your sidebar and write a post explaining why you chose that particular widget.
Activity 5. What have you learnt about using images on your blog? Write a post, create a poster or video explaining your understanding now.
Activity 6. Write a post in your native language using an image as a prompt. Make sure you have a translate widget on your blog for your visitors to use. Check out the Serbian students linked on this sidebar.
Still got more time?
- Visit other blogs either class or student – choose bloggers from other countries, maybe you will start getting some dots on your clustrmap or some flags on your widget.
- Look out for another special event post coming soon – lots of creativity for this one.
- Check out the magazine on the sidebar – are you featured in there yet?
- Also check out the One World Our World magazine – this is where I am flipping the Raise Your Voice posts
Visit these posts from previous weeks which can’t be flipped to our magazine:
Online vs real life – Rachel & Kelly, Walaa, Shay, Isabel, Brianna, Pailyn, Jessica,
Avatars – Miss Brunton’s class,
About me – Kaitlyn, Anthony, Hannah, Elijah, Kaylynn, Jaaron, Emilee, Logan, Cheyanne, Cade, Michael, Chase, Jason, Taylor, Mrs Powers, Autumn, Hailey, Kendall, Brieanna, Zoe, Isabel, Roque, Liam, Grace, Mary Ellen, Caitlyn, Liam,
Commenting guidelines – Lucy used Powtoon to create a video, Mrs McKelvey’s Bloggin’Frogs have created a video, Dinah used bitstrips for her guidelines,
Commenting post – Kataeya, Michael,
Check out the comments on this post: Faithful Leadership students, Blog action day suggestions
Darcey included a video she created for her RaiseYourVoice post
Raise your voice posts: Mrs Black, Roybel, Joscey, Jared, Jesse, Isabel, McKayla, Noah, Chloe, Kathryn, Daniel, Calvin, Dalton, Larissa, Kaya, Maddie, Daltin, Ty, Skylar, Nathanial, Alicia, TyW, Addie, Shane, Trae, Shaylee, Amber, Jayden, Kadi, Clove,
Miss W visiting your blogs
Starting next week, I will only be visiting blogs where students or classes have left the URL to the post in a comment with an explanation. If your teacher is moderating your posts, you will need to wait until it has been published before giving me your URL. Check out the difference between a blog URL and a post URL.
Blog URL: https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org
Post URL : https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2015/10/10/raise-your-voice/
99 comments on “Week 3: Using images”
The most interesting blog to me was “Nature”. I learned a lot from writing that post and it is one of the things that interests me most!
This idea is great. A picture is worth a thousand words. Various pictures in detail show that you actually care about the project and that it lets people understand more what you’re doing or what you like do do. Great job! Come check out our educational bogs @cougarnewsblog.com
How do I read other people’s blogs? i do not know how to follow other people because i do not know any other people on here.
G’day Melodious Harmony,
A couple of ways to find blogs to read. First, in the post I write I often have links to other student or class blogs. Second, in the sidebar is a flipboard magazine you could read with student posts in it. THird up above the header is a list of the students taking part.
Miss W,
What is the website that provides pictures with attribution as it is time consuming to find pictures randomly with the same properties.
-Reece
https://reecemorris112.edublogs.org
HI Miss W,
Some of my students have finished their posts on Week three: Images. I thought this was a great activity that students would flow into quickly. The students are still working on adding details to their posts. : ) I liked the Creative Common image search cite that you shared. I added it to my library website for easy access for the students to use. I know I enjoy reading your comments as do my studetns. I hope you can visit the published posts for both classes:
https://kidblog.org/class/mrs-arendts–library-class/posts
https://kidblog.org/class/mrs-arendts-5r-library-class/posts
Thank you.
Hello Miss W,
This is the link to my Activity 1of Using images. I would really like it if you could have a look at my post.
http://gauriw06.edublogs.org/2015/11/12/my-family/
Hello Mrs W,
I have finished my post for week three – sorry it is a bit late. I really enjoyed doing this because using images is fun. But I have a question how do you get the translate widget into your blog?
Thanks,
-Elspeth
http://bloggingwithelspeth.edublogs.org/2015/11/
-I think this is the way to do a post URL. Sorry if it isn’t.
G’day Elspeth,
Here is a post written by some of the support staff at Edublogs about how to add the translation widget. Take it slowly, step by step. https://www.theedublogger.com/2014/06/23/how-to-add-a-google-translate-widget-to-your-blog/
Hey Mrs. W! Here is my post for week 3. I’m sorry it’s so late. https://farhiyam.edublogs.org/this-i-believe/
Hello Miss W,
I have completed my Week 3 Blogging Challenge. The activity that I liked doing the best was a Favorite Time with my Family. Please feel free to look at my post. Here is my link http://abbyas21.edublogs.org/2015/10/24/a-favorite-time-with-my-family/
Abby
Hi Miss W. I have finished my BAD2015 it’s about animal cruelty. We torture animals it’s like torturing yourself. It’s got lots of facts about animals that have been through animal cruelty and people who try to stop animal cruelty. Anyway here’s my post URL:
http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou19iggy/2015/10/15/bad-2015-animal-cruelty-shouldnt-be-allowed/ . Best regards Iggy.
Hi Miss W.,
I have finished my BAD2015 post.
It is about helping poor people and human rights.
Come read it!
Just click on this URL and it will be right in front of your eyes! : http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou19vinnie/2015/10/16/humans-should-have-the-right-to-have-or-do-the-things-they-want/
Hi Miss W.
I have completed my BAD2015.
Mine was about raising money for girls in Africa suffering abuse and neglect.
When a child has a baby when is not good because they know much at all and I don’t like that at all so I connected the website to the post so people can raise money and sponsor.
Here it is URL:
http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou19madeleine/2015/10/26/help-young-girls-who-are-forced-to-marry-when-young/
Hi Miss W,
I love the blogging and I especially like the blogging challenge .
I did a topic on animal cruelty for BAD 2015.
Here is my post address:http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou20matthew/2015/10/15/animal-abuse/
Hello there Miss. W,
The persuasive post I wrote for Blogging Action Day, with Conserving Power as my topic, was a fun but challenging activity. I appreciate that many people will hear what I need to say.
Here is a URL to my post:
http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou19esther/2015/10/15/blogging-action-day-conserving-power/
Hi Miss W,
I think that BAD is a wonderful idea.
When Mrs Moore told us that we had to keep writing for this challenge she said: “bad people”, and it sounded like she was saying we were naughty!
Anyway here is my post:
http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou19claudia/2015/10/16/my-post-for-blog-action-day/
Bye!
Hi Miss W,
I’ve completed my BAD2015 post and would like you to see it. I feel that for the health and safety of this world, people should stop smoking. I think its awesome that people will get to see what I have to say around the globe and if they’re smokers; think about how their smoking effects everyone. Here’s my BAD2015 post URL:
http://www.xpress360.net.au/gou19penelope/2015/10/15/bad2015-stop-smoking/
Hi Miss W,
I have made a post on my family, please look at my post and comment on it:
http://maryellenw06.edublogs.org/2015/10/19/my-family/
Mary-Ellen.
Dear Mrs. W,
This is my activity 2.
http://hmszach.edublogs.org/2015/10/26/sbc-32-famous-death/
Sincerely Zach
Hi Miss W,
Here is the link to my blogpost
http://bloggingwithemme.edublogs.org/
Emme
Hi, we all did our own posts for this week on our own blogs, but we chose Ella-Joe’s Maori language post for our class blog.
http://rm12otonga2015.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/student-challenge-week-3-native-language.html
Room 12
Hi again Miss W,
I’m really sorry I didn’t finish my picture blog post until now. Actually, I’m still not sure I did the whole “Compfight” thing right, or how I should have been able to tell if I did it right or wrong. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it!
Mackenzie (http://mackenziec206.edublogs.org/2015/10/27/my-beautiful-cherished-memory/)
Hi Miss W.,
Thank you for the advice about creating a class summary post. Here is the link to the stories my students wrote:
http://helpernshelpers.edublogs.org/2015/10/25/week-3-summary/
Sincerely,
Mr. Helpern
G’day Mr Helpern,
It is also a great way to showcase half a dozen posts each week. But it also makes it easier for visitors to see a variety of posts from your students.
I have completed week 3. Here is the link to my blog:
http://6shayc.edublogs.org/
This image is pretty boring though. Try to make it look more cool.
Our class bloggers have completed this challenge. Here is the link to our main page: http://mrskoudelka.edublogs.org/2015/10/18/student-blogging-challenge-week-3/
Hi Miss W,
I really enjoyed this week’s task and did all 6 activities. Thank you for the helpful links and information.
Here is the link to my blog: http://bloggingwithanjali.edublogs.org/
Happy blogging!
-Anjali
Hi Miss W,
I completed all 6 tasks. I had a lot of fun doing this week’s challenge. Thank you for the helpful information about how to use images. Here is the link to my blog: http://bloggingwithanjali.edublogs.org/
Hello Miss W,
We chose to do some of the activities from the March challenge, you can find them at: http://www.flags8.org/category/about-our-class/
I chose to have my students do these activities instead so that they could practice using various sites with Creative Commons images, as well as adding the attribution to the caption. Next time I’ll show them how to clean up the attribution and hyperlink the URLs!
-Mrs. Lepre
Hi Miss W
I liked this week’s challenge. Sadly, I couldn’t get to activity #6, but I hope thou enjoy the other ones I did. Here is my link:
https://6lukasl.edublogs.org
Hi Miss W,
Here is our Week 3 Post.
http://missharrisgrade.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/student-blogging-challenge-week-3.html/
We have written about a favourite time with our family. Unfortunately we don’t have any images, yet.
In IT, we have spoken about asking permission to use a photo of someone else in a collages we made, even though we may be in the photo. We will share some of our collages this week.
Hi Mrs W
Sorry to bother you again but you haven’t commented on this weeks post yet. I realise you are extremelly busy but was wondering if you got my comment or not? http://bloggingwithclaire.edublogs.org/2015/10/22/454/ sorry to bother you if you already got my message.
Claire
bloggingwithclaire.edublogs.org
Hi Ms.W,
Such an interesting challenge this week yet again. I have finished it and here are one of the posts but if you look to the left sidebar at recent posts or at the top page called posts you’ll find the rest of the challenge. URL:http://hmsotomi.edublogs.org/2015/10/22/sbc-week-31-my-abnormal-family/
Thanks a lot,
Otomi
Soaring Through The Pen
http://aishoa.edublogs.org/
Hello Ms.W! Finally, I know how to give credit to pictures I use! I completed my first challenge (the rest are soon to come). I decided to do Activity 2…but I added a twist to it. However, I’m still not sure if I was supposed to explain why I used the picture because my post clearly shows why. All in all, if you’re curious as to what I changed in the activity (It’s really creative) please check out my blog!
Hi Miss W,
Here are the last three activity post links that I have done for this week.
This is for activity four about which widget I chose to add and why: http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/2015/10/22/sbc-34-new-widget/
This post is for activity five on what I learned about using images: http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/2015/10/23/sbc-35-what-ive-learned-about-using-images/
This is a link to the preview of activity six that I wrote about my home in my native language. Sorry, it’s still pending because I just submitted it. http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/?p=73&preview=true
You have such great activity ideas and I can’t stop admiring your work! All of your activities are great and I can’t wait to start the activities for next week.
Sincerely,
Angela
Hi Miss W,
This is the link to my first activity about my favorite time with my family: http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/2015/10/21/sbc-31-my-favorite-moment-with-my-family/
This is for activity two about one of my passed away relatives: http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/2015/10/22/sbc-32-passed-away-relative/
This is the link for activity three about one of my family members: http://hmsangela.edublogs.org/2015/10/23/sbc-33-about-my-mom/
I have enjoyed how you explained how to properly insert other people’s images with credit included. So far, all the activity links in this comment are great!
The other three links will be on another comment.
Sincerely,
Angela
Hi Mrs W,
I loved this weeks challenge. Unfortunately I couldn’t do all of the activities but i tried my best.
My Blog: http://bloggingwithcatie.edublogs.org/
My Post: http://bloggingwithcatie.edublogs.org/2015/10/23/images-speak-a-thousand-words-week-3-student-blogging-challenge/
Thanks
Caitlin G
Dear Miss. W.,
Here is a link to my story. I hope you enjoy.
http://helpernshelpers.edublogs.org/2015/10/23/lynns-present/
Sincerely,
Prestyn
Dear Miss. W.,
Here is a link to my story. I hope you enjoy.
The Basketball Game
Sincerely,
Tristen
Dear Miss. W.,
Here is a link to my story. I hope you enjoy.
The Ice Skate Dream
Sincerely,
Malia
Dear Miss. W.,
Here is a link to my story. I hope you enjoy.
The Day at the Beach
Sincerely,
Amanda
Dear Miss. W.,
Here is a link to my story. I hope you enjoy.
The Dragonfly
Sincerely,
Brendan
Dear Miss. W.,
Here is a link to my story. I hope you enjoy.
The Orphans
Sincerely,
Juan