{"id":2018,"date":"2012-10-22T05:28:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2012-10-22T05:28:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:28:04","slug":"adding-alternative-modes-to-blogs-connecting-to-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2012\/10\/adding-alternative-modes-to-blogs-connecting-to-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Alternative Modes to Blogs &#8211; Connecting to Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/10\/umbrella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2019 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"umbrella\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/10\/umbrella-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Sometimes writing just text won&#8217;t do and you want to add some spice to get your point across. \u00a0Or you&#8217;re thinking of \u00a0how you might communicate more clearly to your audience. \u00a0Like oral conversations, a variety of examples may be helpful to clarify thinking. \u00a0 One simple way is to use video and embed content from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted talks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>Embedding uses code to link to a video. \u00a0The video remains in its original place, thus taking up no space on your site. \u00a0 Here&#8217;s a great video on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Rosling &#8211; The Magic Washing Machine<\/a><\/em> (greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution) found on <a href=\"http:\/\/ted.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/embedding-a-youtube-video3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for instructions on how you can embed videos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/05\/googledocs_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1879\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"googledocs_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/05\/googledocs_logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/web-resource\/google-docs-for-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0fan? \u00a0This is a presentation created by one of our students in Writing Workshop series using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/5card.cogdogblog.com\/play.php?suit=5card\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>5 Card FlickR<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0It\u2019s embedded here. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/embed-pres-using-google-docs-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for instructions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/embed?id=1clrcJz0RuDhRbEodynOizWrAnSRZRCcfXn72RKmgzDg&amp;start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"megaphone\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/megaphone.png?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or how about\u00a0<strong>audio<\/strong>? \u00a0If you have one of our sd41 blogs,\u00a0then you will find the\u00a0handy widget in your upload image area. \u00a0Just select the\u00a0<strong>Audio Player<\/strong>\u00a0before clicking upload. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a title=\"Embed Audio\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/10\/Embedding-Audio-onto-Blogs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> for instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more ways to augment in future posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes writing just text won&#8217;t do and you want to add some spice to get your point across. \u00a0Or you&#8217;re thinking of \u00a0how you might communicate more clearly to your audience. \u00a0Like oral conversations, a variety of examples may be helpful to clarify thinking. \u00a0 One simple way is to use video and embed content&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,5,111,17],"tags":[28,35,36,37,41,47,50,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}