Tutorial Eight: 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 Youtube help or a tutorial from Youtube or Slideshare.

How to imbed a You Tube video:
1. Go to http://www.youtube.com/
2. Find/select the video you wish to imbed
3. To the right of the video is a grey box
4. Written in that box is an item “Embed” which has a white text box next to it
5. Copy the text (Cntrl C)
6. Go into your blog
7. Select new post
8. Paste the text in the text box (Cntrl V) (you can also give the video a title if you wish)
9. Select publish post


Task Two: Explain the step by step process required to embed a Flickr Badge into your Blog . Consider using flickr help or a tutorial from Youtube or Slideshare.

1. Go to the Flickr website http://www.flickr.com/
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page- under “Help” options, select “Tools”
3. Select “Hey where is my badge?”
4. Follow steps 1-5 to get your code
5. Copy code (Cntrl C)
6. Log into your Blogger account
7. Select “View page”
8. Select “Customise”
9. Select “Add a gadget”
10. Select “Configure HTML/Java script
11. Paste code into text box (Cntrl V), add a title if you wish
12. Select “Save”