I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about how to add video to a blog.
The good news is that you can actually leverage the power of Google to assist you in hosting your videos. Video’s can be uploaded to http://video.google.com where they can then be referenced and embedded into a post.
After uploading your video to the Google Video site, simply click ‘show’ next to the embed video section. You can then copy the embed code and paste it into the ‘code’ section of your blog post. (looks something like this):
<embed id=”VideoPlayback” src=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1458530843428833279&hl=en&fs=true” style=”width:400px;height:326px” allowFullScreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”> </embed>
Make sure you take care to ‘unlist’ the video’s that you upload. This will prevent them from being returned in Google video search results.
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Can students watch these videos?
I know when I try to embed youtube videos for students to watch the vids are blocked.
Unfortunately that is correct. Our students won’t be able to view video’s hosted via Youtube or Google Video under our current filtering rules.
However, the intention of the video hosting via Google and the blog server was at least for this project to share video’s with students in Russia. They would not be under the same filtering rules that we are and should be able to view the video’s just fine.