Step 9: Creating and Using Video (V)

 You embed a video using the URL as follows: (to be continued)
2. Go to Posts > Add New or Pages> Add New or open an existing post or page in editing mode.
3. Paste the URL on a line by itself in your post/page editor.
Important URL embed Tips
The link must be on its own line without any characters or whitespaces before or after the URL and must not be hyperlinked otherwise it will not embed. You can tell if a URL is hyperlinked by clicking on the link. If the hyperlinked button in the toolbar highlights and a link box with the option to edit appears, like the  screenshot below, it means your link is hyperlinked.
Click on Remove Link icon to remove the hyperlink.Embed a video using the URL with Google Drive
Using Embed Code
You can also embed videos using their embed code. This is handy when you:

• When you want to change the size of the video embed
• When you want to remove related videos when embedding YouTube videos, or
• When you are embedding from a video sharing websites where you can’t use the video URL.(e.g. Ted Talks, SchoolTube, or Teacher Tube).

Here is how you remove suggested videos using the embed code:

1. Click on Share underneath the YouTube video you want to embed.

2. Click on Embed and then on Show More.

3. Deselect Show suggested videos when the video finishes.

4. Copy the embed code.

5. Go to Posts>Add New or Pages>Add New.

6. Place your cursor where you want the video to appear and then click on the Add Media button.

7. In the Add Media window click on the Insert Embed Code tab.

8. Paste the video embed code into the embed code field.

9. Click on Insert into Post

10. Your Add Media window will close and the embed will appear in the visual editor.

11. When you view your publish post you will see your video.

Your Task

1. Find a video on YouTube or Vimeo that you would like to share with students and embed it into a blog post using the URL method. Or choose one or more of the video creation and editing tools listed and try using the tool with or for your students. I choose the video on YouTube about Using the embed code with Google Drive. You can not take both, you must choose. I think students can learn a lot from video tutorials.

2. Reply to another participant’s comment. “Marlisspr” comment is really useful for tools in the Classroom Guide. Video tutorials are using a custom menu for your blog or your content curation. There is nothing to choose between them.