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Miketemple123 Edublogs Tutorials site has many useful tutorials on using edublogs. If you know how to embed photos, videos, audios etc, then this is a site that you must visit. You have links to many useful educational videos. There is a link to Maths Video lessons, BBC Education news and of course, tutorials on how to use Edublogs (and I am sure that you are using one, and it is free to all teachers).

Below is a tutorial on using vodpod in your blog. Please visit his site for many more useful videos.

Setting up a vodpod – for video

March 2nd, 2007 by miketemple123

Vodpod is a great way to show videos directly in your blog. No downloading needed for the viewer

1. go to www.vodpod.com and register – it’s free
2. give your vodpod site a name – like a username
3. you probably have one already – remember, it will show on your home page
4. when the site opens up, click on start a new pod
5. give the pod a name – you can change this later
6. it automatically adds this to the url – just leave it as it is
7. you can upload your own videos to this pod, or add other pods as needed
8. Now the clever bit
9. click on widgets
10. go to the bit with bookmarklets
11. simply drag the button onto your browser toolbar
12. then when you see an online video like youtube
13. simply click this button
14. choose the pod
15. this will then automatically add the video to your pod – and update the pod on your blog
16. to get the pod on your blog
17. stay in widgets
18. on lhs, simply select the pod from the menu
19. go down the page
20. copy the code
21. go to your post on the blog
22. click on html
23. paste the code in save and publish as normal
24. you should have a player on the page

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