Transcript Making the most of custom pages

Preview
(with a choice of
screen resolutions)
Paste
Copy
Print
Paste
from
Word
Cut
Paste text only (removes all
formatting useful for pasting
from web pages)
Foreground (text) colour
Undo
/
Redo
Search
Bookmark (to create a place to
link to within a page)
Background
colour
Full page
Link (to another web
page, document or
bookmark)
View the HTML
code (use this to
embed code
fromSlide
external sources:
YouTube,
GoogleDocs,
etc)
Text formatting
(as in Word)
Insert image
Clear all
Embed Flash media (needs
to be uploaded as a file
first)
Remove
formatting
Insert
table
Embed video file (.wmv needs to be uploaded as a file
first)
GD/Oct 2010
Advanced JavaScript
Editor
Sound recorder (needs
to be enabled for users)
Line
Edit
table
Insert special
characters
Show/hide table
guidelines
Absolute (avoid using)
Embed YouTube videos, (disabling the links to other
videos), .wmv video and Flash media files into
home/custom pages
Embedding
YouTube
videos
(needs Internet
connection to
play)
There are a growing number of
web applications which allow
their content to be embeded in
the same way on the platform.
View the HTML
code (use this to
embed code from
external sources:
YouTube,
GoogleDocs, etc)
Use tables to organise their learning platform pages – creating a table
Investigate the effects
caused by changing the
values of these options
Use tables to organise their learning platform pages – editing table size
To change
row/column
span click in
the top/left
cell.
Note content
in lower/right
hand cells will
be deleted.
Use tables to organise their learning platform pages – editing table size
Useful –
if you
choose
pixels,
but don’t
set to
larger
than
600pixels
Use tables to organise their learning platform pages – editing cells
Note:
Table effects aren’t
always completely
predictable!!!
Re-size images for inclusion on learning platform pages
Images directly from modern digital cameras are usually too
large to be used easily within the learning platform:
Image re-sizer (powerToy from Microsoft for Windows XP)
VSO image resizer (for Windows Vista) are applications
which add a new line to the right-click menu over an image
in a filer window.
However, if you are unable to install these, - this video clip
shows how Microsoft Office Picture Manager can be used for
batch re-sizing.
These boxes can be used to
change the apparent size of an
image, but if used to resize a large
image, it will still be slow to
download, they don’t change the
amount of memory the image uses!
Consider eSafety and copyright issues
Don’t use Google Images!!!!!!!!!!!!!!