Pre-task thinking:
- What kind of media do you want to share with your students?
- How do you think they will to respond to media?
- How can you encourage them to respond?
The tech basics:
- Online you can create a link from your site to any webpage containing the content you want your students to see.
- You can only embed a file so it looks like an element of your webpage from sites that are explictly set up as filesharing sites for documents, games, pictures, presentations or videos. These sites provide you with the specific embed code.
- videos on YouTube, Vimeo and TED
- pictures on flickr
- use Tag Galaxy to find pictures for your subject on flickr
- create your own gallery on flickr to collect your favorite pictures - documents on Scribd
- presentations on Slideshare
- wordclouds on Wordle
- embed media others have made directly from such sites
- embed media others have embedded on their sites
- create such media yourself, upload them to the filesharing site and then embed them from there on your site
Embed media when you can, but link...
- when you want learners to go to the site where you found them (to introduce them to that environment)
- when the embed code doesn't work on your site (e.g. Google Docs in Ning) - and always check your page when you make other changes to see whether the embed code still works flawlessly
- when the media is in context and you want to refer to that.
- when copyright restrictions apply
Here is a SHORT VIDEO that shows how I use embedding and linking in a class log in Ning.
Work with two tabs open:
- It's easiest to have both your and the other page open at once.
- To open a second tab, press control +T.
How to link to anything:
- Open your page.
- In your second tab, find the page you want to link to.
- Copy (highlight, press Control + C) the URL into your mouse.
- Go to your text, activate "edit" to open the rich text editor
- highlight what will be hypertext.
- Click on the "link" symbol.
- Paste in the code (press Control + V).
- Some rich text editors let you chose between "open in the same page" and "open in a new page". These also let you label your link: the text that shows when you mouseover.
- Save.
- Open your page, click edit and create a line of empty space where the embed should go. Type a space marker, like XXX, to help you find this space again.
- Select HTML mode (not rich text editor).
- Open a second tab (pressing Control + T).
- In the second tab, go the website/ document you want to embed.
- Find the embed code for your document
- Copy (highlight, then press Control + C) the code.
- Go back, find your space marker.
- Paste the code onto your marker (highlight, press Control + V).
- Check the embed code for width. Change the width to 425 for most blogs.
- Save. Preview.
- Only after saving should you make any changes using your rich text editor, e.g. aligning your files or changing the size by dragging the edges.
- Publish.
Task 1: Start a discussion using a picture
- Find a picture using Google Image. Make sure you are allowed to reproduce it (advanced search) Find the URL.
- Open a new discussion in the Forum on the ELTAS Tech Tools Ning.
- Type an introductory sentence, for orientation and directions.
- Below it, use the rich text editor to embed the picture.
- Below that, type in a question.
- Save.
- When responses come in, respond to them.
- Visit at least one other video and respond to the question.
Here's a SHORT VIDEO on how to create links and embed media.
(Thank you to Jo Westcombe for the article used in the video!)
Task 2: Start a discussion using a video
- Find a short video (under 3 minutes) to discuss on YouTube.
- Open a new discussion in the Forum on the ELTAS Tech Tools Ning.
- Type an introductory sentence, for orientation and directions.
- Below it, embed the video.
- Below that, ask a question.
- When responses come in, respond to them.
- Please visit at least one other video and respond to the question.
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