<![CDATA[Wayne Barry : Weblog items tagged with YouTube]]> http://elearningblogs.education.ed.ac.uk/oldelgg/elgg/heywayne/weblog/ <![CDATA[Social Networking in Plain English]]> http://elearningblogs.education.ed.ac.uk/oldelgg/elgg/heywayne/weblog/126.html http://elearningblogs.education.ed.ac.uk/oldelgg/elgg/heywayne/weblog/126.html Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:01 GMT One of my favourite "educational" videos at the moment comes from Common Craft who make these wonderful lo-tech videos involving paper, pen and a little DIY animation which is quite reminiscent of "Vision On", the old BBC children's programme from the 60's and 70's that featured Tony Hart.

So pull a chair up and watch how they explain the concept of social networking in plain english.

As you can see, I have discovered how to embed YouTube videos into an EduSpaces blog. To do this, use the following syntax:

video:url

Where "url" is the URL of the video you want to show, so in the above example it's: http://www.youtube.com/v/6a_KF7TYKVc

Note: You then must enclose the "video:url" statement within the opening and closing double curly brackets, so it reads:

Syntax for embedding YouTube videos

Have fun and enjoy.

References

Elgg User Support / Experiences Forum [online]. Available at: http://elgg.org/mod/forum/forum.php?weblog=users [Accessed 18 September 2007]

Using Elgg - Elgg Documentation [online]. Available at: http://elgg.org/mod/mediawiki/wiki/index.php/Using_Elgg [Accessed 18 September 2007]

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