Thursday, October 18, 2012

Your photo jigsaws on iPad, iPod Touch, wikis and blogs

A great way to start off and introduce your wiki/blog at the beginning of the year is to add a jigsaw using photos of your students or places around the school. Jigzone allows you to upload your own photos and embed jigsaws into your wikis and blogs. (It will not embed into Google Sites).
The jigsaws will also work on your iPad or your iPod Touch.
  • set up an account at Jigzone
  • Click on 'New to Jigzone'
  • Click on Add Photo (Make sure that the photo is smaller than 1 megabyte)
  • Click Browse, find the photo and then click Upload 
  •  Click Embed/Link
 Choose how many pieces you want the jigsaw to end up as



















Embed in Blogs
Select Fixed size for Blogs, click in the html box and copy the code.
Go back to your blogger page, click where you want the jigsaw to go, click on the HTML button next to compose, paste code, click back on Compose, add a label to the right, click Publish




Embed in Wiki
Scroll down to Stretch to Fit. Click in the html box and copy the code. Go back to your wiki page, click Edit, click where you want the jigsaw to go, click on Widget, click Other, paste in code, click Save and click save again to save the whole page.





How can I use this with an iPad or an iPod Touch?
Go to Safari and enter your blog or wiki address, tap on the Share button and select Add to Home Screen.

Now you have a direct link to your blog or wiki.

You might want to consider setting up a Jigsaw blog or a Page on a wiki.
Ideas for photo jigsaws
  • kids in the playground
  • class trips
  • favourite areas of the classroom
  • kids learning in the classroom
  • pose a question and have a photo of the answer
  • spelling words jigsaw