Uploading Documents to Bloomboard

Here's a step by step guide to uploading items to Bloomboard.

1. Go to supporting documents.

2. Click on ADD ANOTHER DOCUMENT

3. A box appears.  Click on UPLOAD... if you need to upload something.  If you uploaded something previously to your E-Portfolio, select LINK DOCUMENT....

4.  Go find the document to upload.  Click on it, then click OK.  

5. DO NOT CLICK CLOSE WHEN IT SAYS 100% UPLOAD.  Let the window close on its own.  If you close it, the document will not upload and you will have to start from the beginning.

6. You will then see the document uploaded.  You may highlight the document (if a PDF) or highlight lines of text (if a word document) to tag to the standards or your goals.

Thank you Monica for letting me take pictures as she uploaded a document.

Copyright Safe Websites

This email was sent out from Bernadette Kunkemoeller.  It provides as list of sites you can use to get copyright free images.  Many of these sites has been added to the district's online resources page under MISQ.

From: Kunkemoeller, Bernadette

Sites to See:
Free Photos on the Web

Looking for copyright-friendly images you and your students can use? Want hard-to-find historical images or photos from a country halfway across the world? Check out these Web sites filled with images you can use in the classroom today.

Check out more than a dozen Web sites containing free images -- including filtered and unfiltered collections, online photo albums, virtual tours, and opportunities for you and your students to share your own images with others on the Web!

Pics4Learning
Pics4Learning should be one of the first places you and your students look for photos and other images online. Educators and students have donated thousands of images for Pics4Learning, so anything you find is free for use in the classroom. Pics4Learning also encourages you and your class to donate digital pictures. (No photos of minors or faces of adults). The site even includes a collaborative project with a frog named Jacques who documents his visits across the world through photos. Don't miss it!

SURWEB
Originally a state-based project out of Utah, SURWEB now includes 10,000 images from around the world. Just like other sites, SURWEB provides photos free for use in educational settings. What sets this site apart is the more than 800 categories of images, allowing students to find images on extremely diverse topics. Plus, the media basket feature gives teachers and students a chance to quickly create a slide show on a topic by simply clicking "use in my show" button at the top and bottom of every image. Also, the virtual locker (available to those who sign up for the free resources) gives you a place to save any images you like -- great for the teacher just beginning to use images in the classroom.

Digital Saskatchewan
Don't let the name fool you! While this project was initially designed for classrooms in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, the nearly 8,000 images are available for use by teachers and students worldwide. Like SURWEB, you can create slide shows -- called Virtual Tours. However, those Tours allow you to add both text and hyperlinks, making them easy-to-use presentations much like PowerPoints, and not simply photo slide shows. Students and teachers can create Virtual Tours, as well as Personal Photo Albums -- repositories for their favorite images. The albums are a good choice during research time, when a student might be working on computers in class, at home, and the library, so saving images to just one computer is problematic. Be sure to check out the digital postcard feature as well.

The Library of Congress's American Memory Project
With a goal of 5 million items -- from speeches to images to video to digitized text and more -- the American Memory project is by far the best source for digital content specific to American History. More than 100 thematic collections make it easy to find images specific to your class's needs. The Browse feature allows you to look for images based on U.S. regions, media type (photos? maps?), time period, or topic. Be sure to click the Teacher link on the home page to find excellent tips for using this Web site in your classroom. The teacher-based resources include a monthly chat, guiding questions to teach students to respond to the images they find, lesson plans, interactive games, and much more.

ALSO WORTH A LOOK

·         Quick! Get the (Digital) Camera!

·         Smile! Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day!

The following are links to lists of classroom-appropriate photo sites.

·         Kid's Image Search Tools

·         Online Image Libraries

·         Multimedia Presentation Resources for Educators

The following links are to sites with thousands of free-to-use photos. Beware, however, that these are not education sites and they might contain images inappropriate for K-12 students. You might choose to use these as sources for your own presentations, or for use in secondary or some high school settings.

·         Flickr

·         FreeFoto

·         PublicDomain Photo

Learn about more great sites for students, parents, and educators by visiting Education World's Site Reviews Archives.

Article by Lorrie Jackson
Education World®
Copyright © 2007 Education World

Originally published 09/07/2005
Links last updated 05/23/2008

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Sharing Your Reflection for Bloomboard

After writing your reflection, you must 'share it' for your observer to see it.  You can do this two ways...

First way - at the bottom of the screen, click SHARE.

Second way....

1. When in your reflection, find the gear at the top right corner of the reflection window and click on it.
2. Click on WHAT's BEEN SHARED?
3. Next to Teacher Reflection, click on SHARE under the you column.
4. Then, your observer will be able to see your reflection.