Putting Video into your Blog

The best way to get a video into your blog is to first save it to You Tube. Here are the instructions for what to do after you have made your video and saved it to your hard drive:
You Tube - Sign up for a You Tube account. On your You Tube page, click Upload. Browse for your video and click to upload it. It may take a few minutes. When it has uploaded you can decide the level of privacy you want. If you only want to share it to your blog or our class blog, click “Private.” At the bottom of that page will be the "sharing options" that you need for putting the video into a blog. You will need either the URL or the "code."

3 Ways to Add Video to Blog -
 

1.       URL – copy the URL. Open your blog and click “Add a Gadget” wherever you want it to be on the blog.  Open the Link List gadget, name your video, insert the URL, and click Save. (This way works well. You can also add your video to the Weblinks on WebCT the same way.)

2.       To embed your vide into the blog, first copy the code below the URL for the video you have created on You Tube.  On your blog, click “Add a Gadget,” select HTML/JavaScript, give your video a title, then paste the code into the Content box. Save. (This way doesn't seem to work as well).

3.        You can put your video into a post on your blog or blogs in which you are an author. Click New Post. When the box opens, click on the icon that says “insert a video.”  Paste the URL of your video into the Browse box and click Publish. (This way also works well.)