A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

By Inkey (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

This week's 23 Things module is about using images properly. Our first challenge was to find a Creative Commons image and post it in our blog with the proper attributions. I chose this image, because it reminds me of a trip I took to Albania in 2008. This is Castle Krujë (Croo-yah), an old fort from the Middle Ages which Albanian hero Skanderbeg succesfully defended against the Ottomans on multiple occasions.

I also had fun playing around with Wordle and creating this Olympic-themed word cloud.

Although it is very easy to create images in Wordle, it's not so easy to save them if you want to create a .jpeg or some other image that you can keep. If you opt to save your creation to a public gallery, the tool will give you some HTML code that you can use to post the image to your blog, but you can't control the size. To get this image, I had to take a screenshot, open it in Adobe Photoshop, and create the .jpeg from there. In this regard, I prefer WordItOut, which allows you to save your creations easier.

Finally, I always wondered where all those funny memes come from on Facebook. Now, thanks to 23 Things, I know. The cool extra thing I tried today was creating a movie poster. This one is for my friend Rainey:

Background image by Stuart Caie from Edinburgh, Scotland (Indexed) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Peer Mentoring

While I was reading through some of the other 23 Things participating blogs, I came across this post on the Rainey.me blog that gives instructions on how to embed a carousel on your blog. So here I am trying it out. This is the list I created as one of this weeks "Things".



It's pretty simple if you follow the instructions. At first, the carousel was too big for my text box, but I figured out how to change the size so that it fit nicely within my frame. I'll have to create more lists now so that I display more carousels!

P.S. If the carousel is showing as little blue boxes with spinny circles in them, look for an orange bar at the bottom of the page that says "Only secure content is diplayed" and click on "Show all content".