Assignment Number 7: Video Post

Video Post

 


Some people are predicting that video will soon make up the vast majority of the internet. People learn so many things through video these days.

Your job is to create a video post for your blog that shares something important and relevant to your topic. You can include one video, three, six, or more. 

 

For example, a poetry blogger might round up “10 Amazing Poetry Slam Videos,” providing some context for each one and then commenting on it. A food blogger might share a series of how-to videos that will allow a total beginner to make a wedding cake. A science blogger might share five news clips of wildfires in a post about why natural disasters are increasing. A tech blogger might share a series of tutorials that show how to edit an image in Photoshop. 

Youtube is the logical place to start. Search through the millions of videos there to find relevant, appropriate content for your blog. Be sure to contextualize that content clearly through your post and provide commentary. 

Use the notes to the right to help you figure out how to embed clips if you have not yet experimented with this. Remember you can always search for tutorials on how to embed video if you are having trouble. 

FEEL FREE to create your own videos for this post if you prefer.


Tips: 

- To embed a Youtube video in a Blogger blog, first choose where you are going to embed it in the post and type “HERE.”

- Then go to the Youtube page of the video you want and click “Share” (sometimes you have to click it several times).

- Click “Embed” on the share screen, and copy the HTML code that comes up. 

- Return to your post and switch from the “compose” view to the “HTML” view (the button is on the left, in the middle).

- Find where you have typed “HERE” in the HTML.

- Highlight it, then delete it and insert your HTML code from Youtube instead.

- When you return to the “Compose” view, you should see your video.

- You can continue to work on your post, just don’t backspace into the video or you will delete it. 



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