embeding video into blogs

Sentence 2: Today I learnt how to share video content with others on my other blog, all in bits and pieces.

The videos are from YouTube and are of teachers demonstrating to other teachers how they use their interactive whiteboards. I found them on the RSC-Northwest eMagazine page from Lancaster University  and simply copied the embed HTML provided by the YouTube block and pasted it into a HTML block in my own blog.Voila instant teacher inpiration goodness!

The special thing about these videos is that once you have watched the first one, a whole series of other related videos appear within the YouTube block. This means you can watch a series of videos which are all related in subject matter without leaving your blog page. Pretty cool huh?!

This little YouTube gadget also gives you the option of embedding a hard link into your blog which will whisk users off to a YouTube page. Still cool but I think having the block in your own page is great idea. Havn't quite learnt how to create my own series, but the possibility of having all your YouTube videos streaming to a personal or educational online space, without having to navigate away would, possibly, solve a few access issues.

To add the video to this blog, I had to click on the "toggle HTML source" button when I was in the writing pane and then paste the video's HTML code exactely where I wanted it to appear in the post. Easy! (after a little help from my friends...)

Tags: whiteboards demonstration interactive whiteboards showme embed video
Posted at 12:13PM Jun 25, 2008 by Alison Hall  |