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This screencasts video is intended to walk students through resizing
a photograph.
before they upload it to blackboard.
I am not going to first start
by selecting the file.
the photograph file'll that I want to upload.
Now I instruct students to
upload a picture of themselves but
for the purposes of... demonstration
I am going to just pick
a photograph I think will be appropriate.
I'm going to select
this photograph which I've entitled the Juvenile height marker. Now rather than
open that photograph
I'm going to right-click on it
and I'm going to have open it with
Paint. Now
this demonstration assumes that students use Microsoft Office.
So I've collected this
or chosen this picture and put it into the Paint
program. I'm going to come up here and click resize.
If you notice in this little insert box I've got an option between percentage
and pixels. I'm going to click pixels.
If you'll notice it's four hundred and twenty three
pixels
wide.
so I'm going to...
I have my choice of maintaining the aspect ratio
or i can and unclick that box and just make the picture square.
now you need to use size your photos
at one fifty
pixels
horizontally and vertically in order for them to fit properly
in the profile picture on blackboard.
so I'm going to click ok and again I unchecked the maintain aspect ratio box
because i don't really care.
it's not going to make me look like and funhouse mirror
but if i wanted to
resize it
and check the maintain aspect ratio
if you remember before
it would have been a hundred and six on the protocol
so i want to show you what that looks like
it looks a little bit different
you can decide whether or not you wanna maintain d aspect ratio
just note that when you resize it the pixels
me to be mail larger than
one hundred and fifty
so there I have my photograph size at one hundred and fifty pixels and I'm gonnna
come up here and I'm gonna save as
and you might want to call this Blackboard
profile?
And you can save it as any one of the
photo types a jpeg
or other various
or a gif,
p_n_g. I don't think it matters so I gonna picked a jpeg because
I think that basically all the same
so now that I've done that
I'm going to
come back to my blackboard page go into my places,
into the personal information I believe is where it is
personalized my....
okay so
i'm going to use a custom avatar
browse my computer
and I'm gonna find that same file that i had a moment ago
now if you're one of those people that is great at remembering file names
uh... you could just type it in
I am on the other hand and not
nor do I see
the file folder that I'm looking for
hmm...there it is.
And I named it blackboard profile
and i'm going to open that
and i'm not going to see right now but if you'll see that file name here down
at the bottom
i know that i have
put the proper file in there. now you can't see off screen I'm going to hit submit
and then I'm going to
refresh my screen.
and at the very top you see
my profile picture
it's changed
and what used to be over here as a picture of my face in
some red garment is now the
uh...
what I just resized as my
blackboard profile picture.
so if my pictures too big it's going to cause my screen to be too wide and
cumbersome appears to read.
so I hope that those instructions are clear. Hopefully you can repeat them
re-view this video if necessary.
good luck with that and I hope everyone can get their photo properly sized.
thanks