Beyond The Desk

We had some fun today with a new website. The site is called PicLits. It is a neat site where you can add descriptive words and phrases to a picture. You can see the example below.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

It’s great for Language Arts. We did a couple as a class and suggested that they may want to add some to our blog. However, they will only be able to add a link not the actual picture. Anyway, I thought I would try a step by step to do this:

1. Go to PicLits.
2. Sign in. Students can use the same user name and password as the one I gave them for Animoto.
3. Students create their picture with words.
4. When you are done, click on the word save.
5. Then click on the button for “blog or share” which is on the right hand side of the picture under the save.
6. Highlight and copy the link in the first box by clicking the mouse and dragging it over the words in the box. Make sure you have them all! When it is all highlighted, click on the right mouse button and choose save or go to the top of the screen and click “Edit” -> “copy”.
7. Go to our class blog.
8. On the most recent post, click on the “Post a Comment”
9. Type in your message like normal than “paste” in the link by right clicking with your mouse and choosing paste or got to the top of your screen, click on “Edit”->”Paste”.
10. Click submit and wait for me to approve it
11. And You’re done!

Have fun making your piclits! I will look at any of the ones done and maybe paste them into a post so we can all see them!