The school year is drawing to a close, and with it the final upload to each child's Learning Journal in the Infant School.
The vehicle we use for these 'Learning Journals' is Google Picasa, which is merged with a twin Google product called Google Photos, within Google+. This year's content will be removed from each teacher's account before the start of the next school year in August.
With this in mind you may wish to download some or all of your child's learning journal before then. In this post I will outline how you can do this.
In Picasa you can download images, one by one, but you cannot download videos.
So it's much easier of you 'upgrade' to Google + and then you can download individual photos, videos, or even the entire album. You will be able to view all your Picasa media from within Google+.
Click on the Picasa link your teacher sent you, and it should automatically redirect to Google+
Use the drop down menu on the right to download the entire album.
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Troubleshooting
Some parents are finding that this still doesn't work, the link just directs them to Picasa. This is due to a 'cookie' that is preventing the redirect from Picasa to Google+. If you clear out your cookies (something you should do regularly anyway) it should work.
For normal (non techie) parents, Cookies are bits of code that are stored by websites on your computer to enable a site to 'remember' or 'recognise' you when you return to their website, like remembering your preferences etc. Or in this case 'remembering' that you want to use Picasa, not Google+, except now you DO want to use Google+! So clearing out cookies, effectively wipes that browser's 'memory' of your preferences relating to the sites you visit.
Confused? Never mind, in the Chrome browser, just click Chrome on the Menu, and choose 'Clear Browsing Data' tick or untick as you see fit, just make sure the Cookies box is ticked, and then click the 'Clear browsing data' button. Don't panic, you can't do any major damage to your computer here.
Another alternative in Chrome is to right-click on the link in the email you were sent and open it in an incognito window, which will open the links in google+ since no cookies are stored.
Note:
This will download all the content, ie, images and video, but not the comments; to keep those you will need to screenshot the relevant pages instead.
Any problems - please forward the email your child's teacher sent you to me at smc@uwcsea.edu.sg and I'll see if I can resolve it for you.
Download albums you own as follows:
Click on Home and then Photos:
More > Albums
Choose the Album you want to download:
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