Whenever I publish a new blog post, I include an image in the post. Including an image helps draw readers in and it helps grab attention when it is shared on places like Pinterest and Facebook.
Folks who blog frequently may find it tiresome to look for new images all the time. Likewise, in a shared classroom blog setting your students may be pressed for time to find good quality public domain or Creative Commons images for every post. In a shared blog setting you may also find that you start to run out of storage space when every student uploads a bunch of high resolution images.
In the video embedded below I demonstrate an easy way to re-use images from your Blogger or WordPress blog.
In the video I mention that you should avoid hotlinking another blog’s or website’s images. This blog post explains what hotlinking is and why you should avoid it.
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