Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tutorial Seven: Posting You Tube Videos and Flickr Badges to Blogs: Explaining the process

Task One: Explain the step by step process required to embed You Tube videos into your Blog . Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.

1. Open your preferred video on youtube.com and your blog on another page
2. Now click on the link which is under “embedded” as shown in the picture below and it will turn blue, now right click and click on ‘copy’



3. Now turn to your blog homepage and click on “New Post” which at the very top of the page. You will be directed to another page.
4. Right click on the space you type and click ‘Paste’. Your link should be pasted on like in the picture below.



5. Add a title and tag if required and you can either ‘Save’ or ‘Publish Post’.

Task Two: Explain the step by step process required to embed a Flickr Badge into your Blog . Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.


1. Create a flickr account
2. Click on ‘Upload photos’ as shown below



3. Follow instructions to choose, upload and add tags on photos.
4. Now go to the homepage in flicker and scroll down to the bottom and click on ‘Tools’ as shown below.



5. Click on “Build a Badge” as in the picture below and follow instructions.



6. Choose to build it using html version and follow instructions till the end
7. Then Copy the link on the last page and go to your blog
8. Click on "New Post" at the top, then click on "Layout" at the top and click on "Add Page Element" as shown below



9. Click on the HTML icon as shown below to paste the copied code.

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