Sometimes writing just text won’t do and you want to add some spice to get your point across. Or you’re thinking of how you might communicate more clearly to your audience. Like oral conversations, a variety of examples may be helpful to clarify thinking. One simple way is to use video and embed content from Ted talks, Youtube or Vimeo. Embedding uses code to link to a video. The video remains in its original place, thus taking up no space on your site. Here’s a great video on Hans Rosling – The Magic Washing Machine (greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution) found on Ted.
Click here for instructions on how you can embed videos.
Are you a Google Docs fan? This is a presentation created by one of our students in Writing Workshop series using 5 Card FlickR. It’s embedded here. Click here for instructions.
Or how about audio? If you have one of our sd41 blogs, then you will find the handy widget in your upload image area. Just select the Audio Player before clicking upload. Click here for instructions.
Stay tuned for more ways to augment in future posts.