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Friday, December 25, 2015




Welcome to Mr. Shih's Blog!

Here you will learn about our adventures in Media Literacy at 
Westmount Junior School.  I am very excited to share with you the projects and
collaborations we have.

 from:http://sitnalta.deviantart.com/art/Media-Literacy-202184795


Pictures of students used in this blog are blurred out to protect their identities.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Embedding a PDF into your Blog

It took me about half an hour to figure this out.  I had to Google quite a bit until I found the link below:

http://www.steegle.com/websites/google-sites-howtos

From the site:

Instructions

  1. Find the PDF file in Google Drive
  2. Preview the PDF file in Google Drive
  3. Pop-out the Google Drive preview
  4. Use the More actions menu and choose Embed item
  5. Copy code provided
  6. Edit Google Sites page where you want to embed
  7. Open the HTML Editor
  8. Paste the HTML embed code provided by the Google Drive preview
  9. Use the Update button and Save the page

What is crucial is clicking the "Pop Out" icon and then going to "More Actions" to get the embed code!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Powtoon Intro

I've used Powtoon in my Classroom.  My students and I love it!  I was invited to present a tool I used in the classroom and decided to present Powtoon.  Here's the introduction video I created: