Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Blog Editing Support Links

I've had a few questions about how to include various artifacts on blogs, so I am including the Google support links here. Please remember when including URLs that you are NOT using the link from where you are signed in. You can usually get a shareable link, but if you take the link directly off the page you are viewing from, it doesn't work. DO double-check on a device or computer where you are not signed in to see what your posts look like. This is part of the editing process!

For example, the Photo Essay Rubric, this link here. I got this link by logging into my own Google Drive account, right-clicking the file I wanted, selecting "Get Link" from the right-click menu, then clicking "Sharing Settings." A new box pops up with the option in the top right corner to "Get Shareable Link," which creates the link I copied to use at the beginning of the paragraph. (If I just click on the file and open it, the URL that pops up is https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive, which does NOT direct you to the file. Those of you who sent me your https://www.blogger.com/blogger.?...etc. addresses instead of blogspot.com addresses made a similar mistake, and I imagine this issue is what prevented some of your primary artifacts from displaying properly.

Here are further how-to instructions for adding artifacts to your blog posts.

Link to websites
Include photo
Include video

And lastly, a link to Student Support Services here at school (Rm 443 in the Multidisciplinary Science Building at 725 Rose St., open 8-7 M-R, 8-5 F). Ask for Valerie and tell her I sent you from my WRD class for help. 

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