Bootcamp Week 3

Technical

Widgets

Widgets are used to add features and functionality to the sidebar (usually) of your blog. Widget placement is dependent on themes.

Widgets on Glow Blog Help blog
Download: Widgets docx or Widgets PDF

Images

Adding an image wp4 | Glow Blog Help
Adding an image to a post MS docx
Adding an image to a post PDF

You might want to find out about Galleries too: Adding an image gallery on the Glow Blog Help

Discussion

Talk about why you should or could use images. How do they help communicate? What advantages to they bring? Discuss using images safely & legally, see the Finding Images post here for more information and some sources of images.

Blogging Challenge

A picture of learning This weeks Blogging Challenge

As part of #DigiLeanScot Week:

Blog photos of ‘a picture of learning’

What Does Learning look like in your class?

Remember to categorize your posts bootcamp!

3 thoughts on “Bootcamp Week 3”

  1. My pictures show up okay in the post. but they appear as great long strings of letters and symbols until I publish – I don’t see the wee picture with the cross and the pencil. (sorry, I know those strings have a name – URLs?) What am I doing wrong?

  2. Hi,
    I expect that you have your editor set to show Text, you can swap it with the tabs at the top right of the editor.

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