Embedding a Video in Your Blog

EMBED A VIDEO ON YOUR GOOGLE BLOG 

Embed Video in Blogger from Lisa Huff

Add a Video Bar Gadget to Blogger

• Give your blog some life with videos.  
• Find Tutorials for yourself and your students.    
• Search Slideshare, You Tube, Teacher Tube for tutorials and other neat videos. 
• Create a user name and password for these resources and create a channel or feed for yourself.   You can Follow, Like, Save, and Share with others.   

Instructions for Creating You Tube Channel

1  Launch your Web browser and navigate to the YouTube website. If you are going to have a channel on YouTube, you have to first be registered on the website. Since Google operates YouTube, if you have a Google account for Gmail or Google Maps or any of the Google products, you will just sign in to YouTube with that account information.
2. If you don't have a Google account, click the “Create Account” link in the top right corner of the website. This will take you to a registration form that must be filled out.

3 Type in your name, birthday, a Google username, a password, your gender, an alternate email address and the security confirmation information. Check the Terms of Service box and click "Next Step."

4 Google will have you verify the account information and then create the account.

5 Return to the YouTube home page and click the link that says “Sign In” if you are not already signed in.

6 Click the “Upload” button to add a video to your account. If you do not already have a video, you will first need to make one using a webcam or other recording device.

7 Click on your username at the top of the screen to be taken to your YouTube Channel. You do not need to sign up for a channel; it is created automatically for you. Once you are on your channel, make note of the URL so that you will know what address to give your family and friends.

Read more: How to Create a YouTube Channel | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_4493894_create-youtube-channel.html#ixzz2PhKCA3gw

Gadgets and Widgets for Blogs

RECOMMENDED GADGETS FOR YOUR BLOG

• TEXT   I recommend you make a text gadget with a photo of you, basic information. 
• BLOG LIST  --   display you favorite list of blogs about children’s literature (starting point, use the recommended children’s lit blogger I provided.
• LINK LIST --- create alist of best websites for supporting children’s literature.
• LABELS    By using labels, you create an index of the topics for your posts.
• SEARCH BOX  --  this would allow viewers to search your site for specific words in posts.
• SLIDE SHOW   Use some special photos of you teaching, your reading, special books – use covers for photos
• Remember to add gadget you go to template select the area of the page, choose add gadget.      Notice on the left margin it list basics   THERE ARE 27.    Go to MORE GADGETS you will see there are 1174!   Check them out.     SOME TO CHECK ARE BELOW;   PS  I would avoid gadgets like funny quotes, fish swimming on the page, - less formal for a teacher site.
• Additional gadgets include
• Amazon MP3 Clips
• Flickr photo strEam – Flickr is one of my favorite websites to use with photos
• PICASA PHOTO STREAM  -  My first favorite for photos.
• PDF Man --   just saw this one, have not tried it – but think it should be a Great One.   You could add your PDF files – Author Study and Annotated Bib to your Blog Site!    (I only made it through 300, you can check even more.)

RECOMMENDED WIDGETS FOR YOUR BLOG 

Good Reads   How to Add Goodreads Widget to Your Blog
Shelfari  How to add Shelfari Widget to Your Blog

Where to get Widgets

1. WidgetBox.com – The definite go-to place to find and build your own widgets.
2. SpringWidgets.com – Another great source for widgets from many of your favorite sites on the web. User reviews and comments help you find the perfect widget for your blog.
3. Widgipedia.com – Like the two sites above, wigipedia is a huge and growing collections of widgets of all types and sizes.

GADGETS Most Popular and What They Do

Here are some of the most popular gadgets and what they do.

Some of the most popular gadgets provided by Blogger are:

Labels	Lets your readers pick a category and see a list of posts from your blog with that category.
Popular posts	Shows the most-frequently read posts from your blog
Pages	Similar to Labels and the linked-list gadget, this one can show a list of either Pages from your blog or external sources, and it can also be used to make a menu bar for your blog
Blogroll	Highlights other blogs that you follow
Picture	Shows a picture, of your choice, which can link to somewhere as well.
RSS	Displays the last few posts from an RSS feed - this can be any feed that you choose - not just your own one.
HTML/Javascript	Lets you add code that came from a 3rd party, or that you wrote yourself, without having to edit your template.
Link List	A general-purpose gadget for adding a list of web-sites and blog pages, either inside or outside your blog.

WAYS TO MAKE YOUR BLOG SITE ORGANIZED : ARCHIVE ADD POST TITLES and LABELS GADGET

One thing that happens with a blog is as you post everything is arranged from most current post to earlier posts and it is difficult to find items you have posted unless you take some time to organize. Two ways to make your post more reader friendly and easier for your to locate previous post is to (1) make sure you have checked add post titles in the sidebar archive feature of the blog - you do this once and it will organize whenever you add a post. (2.) when you add a new post as you save add a label. (you first must add the Label Gadget, and you must remember to label as you post.)

How to Add a Gadget to Your Blog

Check out this tutorial