Category Archives: How to

Pictures to Picassa Web Albums

Posted on April 16, 2014 by

Here’s a quick video showing how to upload and share picture collections within Google’s Picassa Web Albums. Any problems or questions, let me know.

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Schoology – login & enabling notifications

Posted on March 26, 2014 by

Here’s some useful tips for Schoology. Company web site: https://www.schoology.com/home.php Required URL for HKIS login : http://schoology.hkis.edu.hk   How to Login : http://blog.hkis.edu.hk/wp/mleicht/2014/03/26/schoology-logging-in/ How to enable notifications: http://blog.hkis.edu.hk/wp/mleicht/2014/03/26/schoology-enablingdisabling-notifications/ Any questions, let me know.  

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Using Quicktime to record a Google Earth Tour

Posted on November 22, 2013 by

Here’s a quick video that explains how to use QuickTime to record and narrate over a Google Earth Tour. The reason we are not doing this within Google earth is that the resulting Google Earth voice tour seems to be … Continue reading →

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How to set iPhoto to use Preview to resize images.

Posted on November 20, 2013 by

A quick video to show how to set iPhoto preferences so that iPhoto will use Preview as an “external editor” that can be used to resize images within iPhoto.  

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Grade 7 Social Studies – Google Earth Tour

Posted on November 18, 2013 by

Here’s a Google Presentation that explains how to set up and create a narrated Tour within Google Earth. Click below URL to go to presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cD_Wu4aDwLl1frUa27pWjEL0QJJ7K_6XXXePyRKBm88/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 In addition to slides showing the process, this presentation includes a video based explanation … Continue reading →

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Social Studies – Images to Google

Posted on November 13, 2013 by

Below is a link to a Google presentation that outlines how to get images uploaded into  Google Photos and then placed into a Google Earth placemark. The presentation was recently used with the grade 7 social studies students.     … Continue reading →

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Images from Desktop to Picassa to Google Earth

Posted on October 21, 2013 by

Here’s an image detailing how to Upload an image to Google Picassa Copy the Image URL Add the Image into a Google Earth placemark. Any problems , let me know.  

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