John Johnston

  • Multiple image uploads on iOS

    It is now possible to upload multiple photos on iOS using Mobile Safari to Glow Blogs. I am not sure when this change happened and if it is due to upgrades to iOS/Safari or the recent WordPress upgrade on Glow Blogs. Here is a gallery uploaded from my iPad. And here is another one showing […]

  • Learning about copyright

    Today I am in Glenboig Primary talking about copyright. Primary 4/5 are learning to blog. We looked at pics4learning.com where I got this nice photo of a Mountain Lion. It was taken by Michael D. Hall.   It is important only to use picture you are allowed to. Pics4learning.com allows you to use their pictures if […]

  • Embed Slideshare Example

    I used the embed code copied from slideshare:   This is a quick example of how to use the slideshare embed code. You can upload PowerPoints and other presentations to slideshare.net to share. These can then be embedded. To find the code to embed a slideshare slideshow: Visit the page on slideshare. Click the Share […]

  • Adding a Word Doc

    Uploading a word doc to you blog will let visitors download it. Example Word Doc    

  • Merry Christmas

    Freesound.org – “Christmas loop 1D69” by Setuniman licensed under the Attribution Noncommercial License.

  • Office 0365 Video Embed

    To embed an O365 video into your Glow blog just paste the URL to the video into the post editor. Visitors to your blog will need to be logged on to O365 to view the video. If they are not a link to logon on will show on the post.

  • e-mail subscription in Glow Blog

    This is a test of feedburner’s e-mail subscription service. Feedburner allows you to provide email alerts for updated to your blog.  

  • Sway share with organisation

      This sway is only share with my organisation so if you are not logged into to Glow O365 you will see a screen that lets you log in.

  • Sway

  • Image Slider

      Pauses on hover. I’ve heard a few folk mention that they would like image sliders in Glow Blogs. A plugin may come at some point, but it is possible at the moment with a wee bit of work. Based on You Don’t Need JavaScript for That!. I added some CSS using the Custom CSS […]

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