Add Slideshows to your Blog with Picasa

I was fortunate enough to attend (and present at) the eTech Ohio Conference (state technology conference) this week in Columbus. I was able to get some great information (as always) to bring back and was selected to be a presenter for one of the sessions! I can't take all the credit though. Stacy Strawser, Jenna Rahrig and Lisa Hodits all presented with me for, 'Using Blogs and Picasa for Classroom Communication'. We came up with the idea, submitted our proposal in the fall and were selected!

The presentation was great! Everyone did a wonderful job. We taught a hands on session that covered setting up a blog, setting up a Picasa account (picture management software) and using Picasa to add a slideshow into our blog (blogger.com). We wanted a way to add your own pictures into your blog as a slide show. Picasa makes that possible through the use of 'Web Albums'. Basically, you can create a folder that is stored on the Picasa server (internet) instead of your own computer. That way you can get to your picture from anywhere with internet access instead of having to be on your computer. The process is pretty smooth and since Picasa and Blogger are through Google you use the same username and password for both accounts. This means less passwords to remember. Yea!

I have uploaded the handouts from the presentation (as a slide show) and added the links to both sites we used. Feel free to check it out for your self or ask for help! Click on the slide show to make it bigger and control each slide.

The link below is Stacy's music blog. She has a slide show running in the yellow bar on the right side of her blog. It is the 'Elda Music Slideshow'. Check it out:
http://eldamusic.blogspot.com/

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