Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer

Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhones: No Flash Required

One of our teachers loves to share photos he takes of students working in class using Picasa on his classroom Google Site. He’s been using Picasa for years, but unfortunately all of the sharing options (like photo slideshows) from Picasa don’t work on smartphones like iPhones. I think this is because some of them are shared with Flash, which doesn’t work in the Safari browser for iOS – You have to install an alternate browser like Puffin if you want to view Flash content. He asked for my suggestions on a workaround for this, and here is what I emailed him today:

I think I found a workaround you can use. My iPhone didn’t directly show the photo album from your Google Site that Picasa made either, but there is a link you could add below your slideshow like this:
Smartphone users: Click HERE to view this photo slideshow
Here are the steps:

1. On a laptop or desktop computer, visit the Google Sites page which has the Picasa photo slideshow. In this example I’ll use the page:
https://sites.google.com/a/casady.org/mr-bush-s-web-2015-2016/home/service-learning-project/promoting-our-chocolate-sales-1-26-15

2. Mouse over the slideshow and click the Picasa icon in the lower right corner of the embed window:

Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone by Wesley Fryer, on Flickr
Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer 

3. On the page that is displayed, click on the NAME of the Picasa photo slideshow. In this case the name is “posters.”

Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone by Wesley Fryer, on Flickr
Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer 

4. Copy the link on the webpage which is displayed. This is the link you want to add to your Google Site for parents and other visitors to click if they are using a smartphone:

Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone by Wesley Fryer, on Flickr
Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer 

5. Here are 2 screenshots taken with my iPhone, after I clicked on that link. It works on the smartphone!

Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone by Wesley Fryer, on Flickr
Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer 

 

Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone by Wesley Fryer, on Flickr
Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhone” (CC BY 2.0) by  Wesley Fryer 

If these instructions are helpful to you, please let me know via a comment here or a tweet to @wfryer.

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