After a few tries, success in embedding a video! I found I had to click on Edit HTML and then paste the html code from the YouTube page. The video showed as a white box with a red x in it, which usually means bad news. I thought I'd publish the post anyway to see if the video showed up after all, and it did! So just because you can't see your video in the Compose box where you are writing your text it doesn't mean it won't work.
I had trouble finding a post-worthy library related video on YouTube, but found one in the end. It's a clever library tour video that uses humour and manages not to be too "cringe-worthy".
I tried to look at http://www.dailymotion.com/ . I'm pretty sure when I first clicked on it when the topic was put up on Janison that it was accessible but maybe we were all too curious about that site last week because it is now blocked. Anyway, YouTube works as does TeacherTube. I looked at the two sites and found TeacherTube to be easier to operate with much less visual clutter. I can see the potential in these sites for libraries, such as library promotional videos (as already done by our Stephen Dunne), tours and how to use the catalogue (also already done).
No comments:
Post a Comment