Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2007

Thing #13: Embed a video onto your blog

Description:

Sites like YouTube and others let you embed videos onto your blog. That means, you can make the video appear on your blog. This is probably the most popular way of videocasting these days, other than using a YouTube account.

If you have never put code onto a website before, this may sound much more difficult than it really is. In the end, you are just cutting and pasting some funny words into your blog that will make the video show. Don't be intimidated by this: geeks have a habit of making easy things sound hard. Don't be afraid to ask for help, if you get stuck.

Hints:

  • Go to a YouTube video page (perhaps the one you searched for for thing #11) and copy the "embed" code. It should appear on the right hand side of the screen. You may have to click "more" to find this code.
  • Add the video to your blog:
    • In blogger,
      • you create a new post and click the "edit html" tab on the top right of the edit box.
      • Paste the embed code into the box. And that should be about it.
    • Wordpress has a different approach:
      • create a new post.
      • Underneath the editor is an upload section, with tabs that say "Upload", "Browse All", "Videos" and "Slideshows." Click "videos".
      • Put the URL (web address) into that box -- important: this is not the same as the embed code!
      • You will see a little bit of code in your editor. Publish that with a title and you should be done!

Thing #11: Watch a Video on YouTube

Description:

YouTube is a site that is popular for watching videos. A wide variety of "videocasters" (like a blogger, except they use video) exist there and they share a wide variety of information -- some frivolous, some useful, some offensive (be warned, though YouTube is very good at letting you know when something is considered offensive).

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Serendipity

During the creation of a screencast, I found an article from Helene Blowers via my RSS feed about the latest video by Michael Wesch, who did The Machine is Us/ing Us video.

Here it is. For example, via things like RSS, information can find us -- that's what happened to me as I discovered this video right while I was demonstrating Google Reader!




People used to talk about the Internet and searching removing the "serendipity" benefits of browsing through shelves. Web 2.0 seems to be trying to put some of those things back -- but by using social networks, rather than spatial proximity. Very interesting development.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Why I Love the World Wide Web

Here is a very common sense explanation of why Google docs is a useful product. It is quite amazing, actually. And (hint hint) might get you a headstart on a few of the "things."


Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The Machine is Us/ing Us

This video (courtesy of YouTube) will be the introductory presentation to the Learning 2.0 training people. I find it does a good job outlining the major differences between the "old" web and the "new" web.




What do you think? Is the Web changing really? Does this matter to libraries?