Technological Tidbit: Use Images to Make Social Media Buttons

Hello Everyone,

Do you visit educator or personal blogs and long for those cool Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest buttons that come with pro accounts which make it so easy to network a blogger on other platforms?

Ta-da! I have found a way to make my own social media buttons while staying with my free Edublogs account.

On Flickr, I found free social media button images, which the uploader has graciously made available for personal use without demanding attribution; the Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube images I used can be at this link. I used my own personal cropped screenshot of the Google Drive image.

To learn how to create image links in Edublogs, please check out the “Use Images to Make Social Media Buttons” PDF help sheet I uploaded to Google Drive by visiting this link or clicking on the Google Drive image in the sidebar.

I hope this technological tidbit was helpful!

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler

Images, Copyright, and Creative Commons

Hello Everyone,

It has been almost a month since I last posted anything; graduate school is keeping me busy since I am taking two online classes for a degree in library media education and will start field work in a local elementary school library media center soon.

I am enjoying the 2014 Edublogs Teacher Challenge and have learned a great deal about image copyright and Creative Commons in Step 6. Images cannot be taken from the Internet and used in blog posts or classroom presentations without proper attribution. Please see The Edublogger’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons for more detailed information. I believe for images to use in my classroom presentations I will rely on Compfight, a Flicker Search Tool, and the clipart provided by Microsoft Office, when I do not already have an appropriate image in my personal collection. Below is an image from Compfight with proper attribution beneath it (I hope).

Like flowers, everyone has the opportunity to grow!
White Daisy

Photo Credit: Mukumbura via Compfight cc

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler