Monday, May 25, 2009

TUTORIAL 8

As part of our course for this paper,we had to create a video then post it onto our blog, for those of you who don't know how to do it here are some instructions..

How to embed a You Tube video:

1-Go to http://www.youtube.com/

2-Select the video you wish to embed

3-To the right of the video is a grey box

4-Written in that box is an item “Embed” which has a white text box next to it
Copy the text (Ctrl C)

5-Go into your blog

6-Select new post

7-Paste the text in the text box (Ctrl V) (you can also give the video a title if you wish)

8-Select publish post

We also had to upload photos from out Flickr accounts to create a Flickr badge to put on out blog.
To embed a Flickr Badge onto your blog:

Step 1 - Log onto your Blog account.
Step 2 - Log onto your Flickr account.
Step 3 - Click on tools at bottom of page.
Step 4 - Follow the step by step instructions until end where the URL code comes up.
Step 5 - Copy the URL code.
Step 6 - Click on customize.
Step 7 - Click on add elements.
Step 8 - Click on script.
Step 9 - Paste URL in box provided.
Step 10 - Give your Badge a name e.g. Photo Badge, Pictures etc.
Step 11 - Save changes to your new posting.
Step 12 - Publish your new Post.

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