ADDING A VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE

If you are used to using youtube you will know there are lots of good clips that can be used educationally. You will also be aware that there are lots of illegal and dodgy videos on, at least this way you get to choose what students can see.

It is easiest to work in two windows/ To do this, minimise this page, click on internet explorer again and you will now have two internet pages running at once.

In internet explorer address bar type in www.youtube.com

Once there you can search for a video clip.

To start off though, why not try this one? Right click on this hyperlink below and select "open in a new window."

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qojone7xymk

• When watching the clip you will see in the right hand corner a sign that says "embed

• Highlight the text in the box, right click and select copy.
• Maximise your blog again.
• In your new post you will need to select "edit Html" on the tab where you write your post.
• Now paste the text from youtube.
• If you click back on "compose" you will be able to add more content to your post as normal.
• Whenyou view your blog you should have the video embeded into your blog.