Welcome to the eighth step in our free professional learning series on class and student blogging!

The aim of this step is to:

  1. Introduce you to online tools that you can embed into posts and pages.
  2. Learn how to embed content into posts and pages.

We’ve embedded examples of each tool in this post to help you work out how each tool could be used with your students.

Some of these tools aren’t designed to be viewed on mobile devices. These won’t load and you may see a white space in place of the content if you are reading this post a mobile device.

Embedding Content in Posts

If you look closely at class blogs you’ll notice many of have cool interactive tools embedded in posts and pages. Embedding content like slides, quizzes, polls, videos, and storybooks into posts creates opportunities for reader engagement and interaction not achievable using plain text or images.

Most online tools provide embed code that you can use to embed what you’ve found or created into posts.

Below are some popular tools used by educators sorted by activity type to help get you started.

We’ve included a brief explanation of why they’re used, and embedded examples of each so you can check how they work.

Tools were chosen on the basis of their popularity, ease of use, and ability to be embedded into posts. There are many more tools out there and you’re welcome to share them with us!

A Note On Age Restrictions

It’s important to be aware that children cannot sign up for many online tools, even if they seem designed for education.

Websites based in the US that are collecting information from children under the age of 13 are required by law to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

These laws also extend to sites that are not located in the US but might be used by children in the US. Many countries adopt similar policies too.

If you look in the Terms and Conditions of many websites, you will find that children under 13 are not allowed to create an account or access the tool.

Some tools, such as PhotoPeach, state that “Persons under 13 years of age are required to have a parent or guardian review and complete the registration process.”

If you work with young students, get into the habit of looking for the information about age restrictions. It’s usually located under “Terms and Conditions” (sometimes under “Terms” or “Privacy”). These can usually be found right down the bottom or up the top of a website.

Tip: Use Control F (or Command F on Mac) to bring up a search box to find what you’re looking for. The Terms and Conditions are often lengthy. I often try typing in a search term like “13” or “children” to find the age information.

Getting around limitations with under 13s

  • Teachers can still have accounts to create content for the blog.
  • Have students sign up at home with their parents when this is allowed in the Terms.
  • Use tools that don’t require signing up (eg. Tagxedo or Make Beliefs Comix).
  • Use tools that allow teachers to create student accounts.

Audio Hosting Websites

Audio is used for a wide range of purpose including:

  • grammar and fluency reading practice
  • delivering content
  • engaging auditory learners
  • creating podcasts

Educators use audio hosting websites when they want to embed their audio within embedded players rather than uploading them directly to posts as a link.  Anchor.fm and SoundCloud are commonly used audio hosting websites.

Anchor.fm

Anchor.fm is an excellent free service for recording, hosting, and distributing podcasts.

You can create recordings on your computer or on the mobile app.

There are some great options for background music and you can even publish your Anchor recordings straight to iTunes, Spotify, Google Play etc. This could make it easy for your parents and students to keep up to date when they’re on-the-go.

Yet another excellent feature is that you can record a podcast with a guest or co-host in another city or country. All you both need is the app!

Richard Byrne from Free Technology For Teachers has created a tutorial on how to create a podcast with Anchor.

Find the full post on Richard’s Practical Ed Tech blog.

Richard also created a short screencast to demonstrate how to embed an Anchor podcast into an Edublogs blog.

Note: If you don’t want to work with the text editor as demonstrated above, you can just click on Add Media > Insert Embed Code > Insert Into Post. If you need more help with embedding an HTML code, check out the instructions later in this post.

Anchor.fm is a tool for people aged over 13.

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform that allows users to upload, record, promote and share their own sounds.

The Soundcloud embedded below was used by the teacher to engage the students, showcase their creativity while summarizing the essence of a story into something memorable.  You can read more about the activity and check out more of their Soundclouds here.

Your students must be over 13 if you want them to upload their own audio to Soundcloud.

Brainstorming Tools

Brainstorming tools help students think up new and creative ideas quickly and easily. Brainstorming allows students to comprehend connections between concepts and helps them with their thinking process.

Popplet

Popplet is a popular collaborative brainstorming tool that can be used to create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other visual organization forms. Popplet is also a powerful presentation tool. Students can create Popplets on their computers or using the iOS app.

The Popplet embedded below shows how it can be used for maths.

Students must be over 13 to create their own Popplet.

Watch this video on how to use the Popplet lite app.

Padlet

Padlet is an online notice board creator. As of 2018, you can now only create 3 Padlets with the free plan.

You can read more about using Padlet with students here. Students under 13 are allowed to create their own Padlet provided it is under the supervision of the teacher or school.

Made with Padlet

Comic and Cartoon Tools

Comic and cartoons tools can be very engaging for students, especially visual learners, and are another way that students can enhance their posts with images.

Students under 13 can create their own comics using Make Beliefs Comix.

This is a tool you can’t embed. You just save it as an image (click on “save to disk”) and insert it into your blog post as you would any other image.

Here are some examples from MakeBeliefsComix.

Example of a comic

Curation Tools

Curation tools allow you to collect, preserve, maintain, archive, and share information.  The goal of content curation is to find the most relevant content pertaining to a specific category and funneling this information for yourself and your readers in a very targeted way.

LiveBinders

LiveBinders allows you to curate webpages, PDFs, documents, images, or videos into a digital 3 ring binder.  Content can be curated by tab and subtabs within tabs.

The LiveBinder below is used by the teacher to share resources from classes.

Check out the following for more information: Using LiveBinders on iPads

Students under 13 are allowed to create their own LiveBinders provided their parent or guardian agrees to their terms and conditions.

Click here to open this binder in a new window.

Poll, Survey, and Quiz Tools

Online polling and survey tools help you gather opinions, collect votes, and see and share results immediately.  Some of these tools can also be used to create quizzes.

Google Forms

Google Forms is part of the freeware web based office suite offered by Google within Google Drive.  Google Forms can be used for planning events, surveys, student quizzes, and collecting other information in an easy, streamlined way.

The Google Form embedded below is an example of how you can use it for a simple poll.   You’ll find an example of a more extensive Google Form embedded in this post.  Graphs and data generated from this form were compiled into our State of Educational Blogging 2016 post.

Watch this video to learn more about using Google Forms.

CrowdSignal (Formerly PollDaddy)

CrowdSignal allows you to quickly create online surveys, polls, and quizzes.

Presentation Tools

Presentation tools allow you to publish and share presentations in a range of formats online.

Animoto

Animoto is a great tool for quickly creating professional looking videos from your images. It allows students to focus on content creation rather than trying to learn an editing or manipulation tool. In the school context, Animoto For Education is an ideal tool for students to create their own book trailers, digital stories, or music videos.

Students under 13 are allowed to use Animoto for Education under direct supervision of the teacher within the classroom. Teachers can sign up for an Animoto for Education account for free.

Merry Beau is an Irish teacher with a great blog called If Only The Best Birds Sang…

Merry uses Animoto a lot in a variety of ways and her students love seeing their work showcased. Here are two examples.

The Viking Longship

f

Beautiful Trees

Biteable

Biteable allows you to make animated videos and presentations easily.  Students under 13 are allowed to create their own Biteable presentation.

Below is an example of a presentation created using Biteable.

Australian Animals on Biteable.

Google Slides Presentation

Google Presentation is part of the freeware web based office suite offered by Google within Google Drive.

Google Slides can be a great way to share student work on a class blog when students don’t have their own blogs.

Here are two examples from Miss Jordan’s class blog.

Digital work: Haiku poems

Here the students each wrote a Haiku poem on a Google slide on their iPads. They shared their finished product with the teacher.

The slides were collated into one master slideshow by following the instructions on the Erintegration blog. 

Offline work: Wacky Wednesday

In this lesson, the students created their own Wacky Wednesday rhyme and illustration after studying the Dr. Seuss book.

Photographs of all the students’ work were put into a Google slideshow.

Note: If you just want a slideshow of photos, you can do a similar thing using the Meta Slider Plugin in Edublogs.

Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is a tool that allows you to create presentations using their website on your computer or their app on your iOS device.  Haiku Deck works by combining beautiful images with minimal text.  As you type a word(s) on the slide Haiku Deck searches Creative Commons images to find images to match your text.  You can also upload images from your computer.

Below is an example of a Haiku deck created by a student.

Students under 13 are allowed to create their own Haiku Deck presentations provided their parent or guardian agrees to the terms and conditions.

You can create 3 Haiku Decks with the free version.


Persuasive Presentation – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

For more ideas, check out Haiku Deck’s Pinterest board of Education case studies.

PowToon

Powtoon is an online tool that allows you to make animated videos and presentations easily. Students under 18 are allowed to use the Education version of Powtoon.

Refer to PowToon’s quick start guide to learn how to create a PowToon video.

Prezi

Prezi is an online presentation and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional series of slides.  The images, text, videos and other objects are placed on the canvas and users can zoom in and out.

Below is an example of a Prezi created by a student.

Students under 13 aren’t allowed to create their own Prezis.  Students over 13 are allowed to use provided their parent or guardian agrees to the terms and conditions.

SlideShare

SlideShare is a site where you can host your presentations and share with others.  Slideshare is ideal for those who want to embed presentations in their posts and websites rather than upload their PowerPoints directly and insert as a link.

Students under 13 can’t upload slides to SlideShare but they can embed SlideShares created by other people in posts.

ThingLink

ThingLink is an easy to use online tool that allows you to make any graphic or photo interactive. With ThingLink you can create multiple hot spots on specific parts of your image that link to a website, video, music, text, or audio file.

Read more about using ThingLink with students here.  Students under 13 can use ThingLink under supervision of teacher or school.

Hover your mouse over the ThngLink below to check out how it works.

Check out Westwood with Iford Orchid Class Blog which uses a ThingLink to introduce the students.

Slideshow Tools

Slideshow tools allow you to create and share slideshows.

PhotoPeach

PhotoPeach allows you to quickly upload photos to create great looking slideshows and even simple quizzes. Students under 13 are allowed to create their own PhotoPeach presentation provided their parent or guardian agrees to the terms and conditions.

Watch this video to see how to create slideshows using PhotoPeach.

Embed in posts

Once you’ve created your content using one of the above online tools you embed into a post as follows:

1. Copy the embed code.

  • Websites use a range of different icons to represent embed code.
  • Look for icons like </>, the word Embed, Share, the share icon, HTML or hover your mouse over icons until you see the word Embed.

For example, if you created a Biteable video the embed code is located in the Controls panel when you view your video:

Biteaable embed code

2.  Go to Posts > Add New

Add New

3.  Place your cursor where you want the video to appear and then click on the Add Media button.

Click an Add Media

4.  In the Add Media window click on the Insert Embed Code tab.

Click on Embed code

5.  Paste the embed code into the Insert Embed code box and click Insert into post.

Paste embed code

6.  When you have finished writing your post click Publish.

7.  You should see your embedded content when you view the published post.

How To Embed Content Cheat Sheet

This printable cheat sheet walks you through embedding an HTML code in a blog post.

Feel free to give this PDF to your students or embed it on your blog.

This document uses Padlet as an example. The same process applies to any online tool that offers embed codes (including videos on sites like YouTube).

These steps apply to both posts and pages.

Loader Loading...
EAD Logo Taking too long?

Reload Reload document
| Open Open in new tab

Download

More Tools To Embed

For more ideas of free web tools that can be embedded on your blog, check out this post by Australian high school teacher, Roslyn Green.

Roslyn shares examples of six web tools that she uses to create interactive learning content on her blog.

They are:

Six Tools To Create Interactive Learning Content On Your Blog TWITTER

Your Task

We’d like you to add your voice and ideas to our ongoing conversation about student blogging by completing the following tasks:

  1. Choose one or more of the tools embedded in this post and try using the tool with your students or try creating something using it.  Leave a comment with a link to what you created or where you’ve embedded the tool so we can check out how you went.
  2. Read through the most recent comments in reply to this step and leave a response to another person’s comment.

Remember, embedding isn’t enabled on free blogs to prevent misuse by spammers. If you have a free blog, you’re welcome to just use one of the tools and share the link, or accept a complimentary upgrade to complete the course and try embedding. Contact us to organise this free upgrade. 

237 thoughts on “Step 8: Embed Content in Posts

  1. I have used several of these tools independently, so I love that I can embed some samples into our blogs and can show the students how to embed their own projects into their posts to make them more interactive. I have added a google form survey that I won’t publish until May, and a cool tools post which showcases a few of the tools we use. I also added a voki to welcome visitors to the blog. Thanks for the suggestions!
    http://mrskoudelka.edublogs.org/

  2. I have used Google Slides a few times to embed content on the blog. I’ve also used Photostory/Movie Maker to do recounts with text and children narrating the pictures. I find this really useful with my year 1 children.

  3. Slowly getting through these challenge steps. I added a Voki to my site encouraging visitors to read my student’s blogs. I am sure my students will get a kick out of it! I have used PhotoPeach to make videos using the pictures I have taken throughout the month. I got the idea on New Years Day while listening to the radio recap the year. I am doing this on a monthly basis now. I have also been using Glogster with my students for sometime. They love it and I do too. Being able to create a poster type report that you can imbed video and graphics engages them. They also like Powtoons. I am really happy to have this Step 8 to come back to for more ideas. Thank You!

    Shane
    http://sbharrison.edublogs.org/

  4. I have had fun working with the various tools here now just have to wait for some to be unblocked at the site level so that they can be used at school!

  5. Well I tried to find the code to embed for BitStrips and the other comic strip but cannot seem to find it. However, I did like many of the tools that were introduced here and cannot wait to try Popplet and Padlet. Padlet looks like a big bulletin board for students.

  6. Great resources in this challenge. I have bookmarked a couple to use with my students. I created a Voki avatar and embedded into my blog, but I got a message that you have to have Edublog Pro for that feature.

  7. A question for Animoto users: Do people use the children’s education email or setup anonymous gmails for them?

    1. Hi Mrs S

      I’m assuming you may mean the gmail+ method? – http://help.edublogs.org/creating-student-accounts-using-one-gmail-account/ If so, not all websites support gmail+ and it may not be an option with Animoto.

      In terms of student email accounts using their school provided email account isn’t always an option because some schools and school districts don’t allow student accounts to receive emails from outside their school domain. I’ve found that teachers aren’t always aware if their students can receive emails and the best option is to create one account with a new online tool using a student’s email account and then ask the student if they receive the confirmation email. Some school email accounts do allow you to whitelist specific services which helps.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  8. Hi all,
    Vocaroo (http://vocaroo.com/) is an online voice recorder that I use to obtain student speaking samples. It is a great way for students to work on pronunciation such as sentence stress and intonation. I provide students with a paragraph related to their employment area. They record their first attempt and send the link to me. After reviewing the rules of sentence stress and self-practice, students make a second recording which they also send to me. It is easy for both students and instructor to evaluate improvement by listening to both recordings. The recorder is a sidebar widget.

    I embedded the PollDaddy tool as a means of assessing my student’s learning needs. The following is the posting link: http://wjsheban.edublogs.org/2015/02/16/welcome-to-our-class-blog/

    I created a speaking activity with Fotobabble. Students choose any photo that they would like to share and create a Fotobabble. They talk about where they were and what degree of formality was used when speaking. When done, they link their Fotobabble to the post after my example. Here is the link to it: http://wjsheban.edublogs.org/2015/03/09/a-photo-fotobabble/

    Thanks for reading,
    William

  9. Hi Everyone

    Really loving bringing our blogs to life and looking at what everyone is trying out. I have just embedded a quick 30 second Animoto video into one of my posts about the swimming carnival so hopefully it will encourage my students to share it with their families. I am hoping that we will be able to start using some of the audio applications like fotobabble with my students as our demographic is 92% ESL and it takes a lot of time for them to write, edit, type then check and publish their work and often all i want is for me to engage. We are working on fluent reading so I am hopeful that we might be able to use this tool to take a picture of our favourite book and then record them reading it. I am hoping to tie it in to our posts about the premiers reading challenge.

    Keep the good Ideas coming!
    It’s so nice to hear of other inspirational classrooms delving into 21st century learning – and nice to know that i’m not the only one on this journey!

    Visit our blog at: http://mrspayne143.edublogs.org

  10. There are so many cool tools! I use Glogster, Prezi and VoiceThread a lot with my classes. Since I won’t be able to embed our third grade Prezis on my Edublogs blog, I will use a screen shot image and add a hyperlink to the Prezi. We have not yet begun our Third Grade National Parks project for this year, but here is a post (with a Prezi from last year) that I did as a test: http://ksandora.edublogs.org/2015/03/01/everglades-national-park-by-delaney/

    I was able to embed a VoiceThread in my KidBlog blog that I use with my first graders. Here is the post: http://kidblog.org/CanadaConnections2015/62648f71-4755-466b-9143-a294954ba8da/canada-connections-2015-voicethread/.

    I love Photopeach and used to add slide shows to my Teacher Pages on our school website frequently. However, I don’t use it as much anymore. I discovered that Photopeach slide shows don’t show up on mobile devices that don’t run Flash. Instead, I’ve been creating Google presentations to share photos on my Teacher Pages.

    A new app that I used for the first time with my second grade students this year is called YAKit Kids. We used this iPad app to create recordings based on research that the children did on explorers. One of the things that I liked about the resource is that you can do a child-friendly image search right from in the app itself. I only used the free version, so the only downside was that the recording had to be limited to 15 seconds. The students still shared a nice amount of information though! Then I used another new resource that I just learned about this year to share them with the parents. It’s called Blendspace. Here is a link that will show both the Blendspace set up and the YAKit Kids videos: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/l75EZG00Q7hKVQ/second-grade-explorer-videos-2r. You can share your Blendspace by copying the link, using the embed code or creating a QR Code (there are other options too, but those are the main ones).

  11. One of the tools that I really love is Story Bird. This is a great tool for making stories using free to use images that other people have drawn. I made an alphabet story that rhymes on here. The link to my story is, https://storybird.com/books/alphabet-critters/. I also love Little Bird Tales where you can create a slide show that allows you to add your voice to it. It is very easy to use and I created a sight word list on here that I use with my students. The link to my little bird tale is https://littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/460188/. For my blog, I created a new post about Dr. Seuss. This week we studied Dr. Seuss and did a lot of activities concerning his books throughout the course of the week. I tried to embed a video here, but it would not let me embed it. However, I was able to attach a poll that I created about Dr. Seuss into my post. It shows the first question in my poll and you can actually take the poll without going to another site! I wanted something that I could actually see in my post, so for me this was the best option! The link to my blog is http://mholley.edublogs.org/ where you can see all of my newest stuff!

  12. Just thought I would create and add a form as I have been playing the google forms so it was timely – the embedding was easy!

    Thanks again for the resources.

  13. I have used many of the “Cool Tools” listed in the Step 8 post for a variety of purposes. Some of the ones I have used with my students are Glogster, Prezi, and Popplet for brainstorming, sharing content, and as a visual graphic organizer, I have use ToodDoo as a way for students to summarize or retell a story or share information. I was in a training where the presenters used Poll Daddy as a way to survey the audience using cell phones and iPADS. That was such an awesome tool!

    I really love to use book trailers as a way to preview books and engage students in reading. Animoto, Fotobabble, and PhotoStory are favorite tools for creating book trailers as they are easy to use and fun for young learners.

    I linked a URL for a book trailer for Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” in my post at:
    http://mrsholley2.edublogs.org/2015/03/06/dr-seuss-week/

  14. I am trying to embed the Vokis I created but I am getting a message that I need to upgrade to the Pro version of Edublog. Am I doing something wrong?

  15. Hello!
    I’ve done my voki but I can’t put on the blog with embed code. The reason is “To enable the ability to embed html (videos, widgets, and more), please upgrade to Edublogs Pro “.
    There is no other way to introduce such tools in edublogs without being with a paid version?
    🙁
    Sónia Abrantes

      1. Hi Sonia

        You can only add embed code to posts, pages and text widgets on Edublogs Pro blogs and student blogs attached to a Pro blog via My Class. We can’t allow it on free blogs due to misuse by spam blog creators (people who create blogs to promote products and websites).

        This is why you can’t add a voki to your blog.

        Sue Waters
        Support Manager
        Edublogs | CampusPress

  16. I enjoyed reading about all of the tools in this activity. There were some I was all ready familiar with but I learned about many new ones too. I’m especially interested in trying out the audio tools with my students.

    I embedded a Symbaloo grid into my post. Symbaloo is a visual way to organize links for lessons you are teaching or want to make available to your students. It is easy to use and provides several ways to share your grid when you are ready,including an embed code.

    You can see my post here : http://swiseman.edublogs.org/2015/03/05/coding/

    I would like for the Symbaloo to appear a little smaller in the post but I haven’t figured out how to fix that yet.

    1. Hi Swiseman

      Thanks for sharing a link to your Symbaloo.

      Symbaloo is a bit tricky because to make it smaller you have to edit your webmix by logging into your Sybmaloo account and removing the columns and rows that don’t contain links. It took me awhile to work out how to remove the extra rows and columns on my Symbaloo. This information should help – http://en.support.symbaloo.com/knowledgebase/articles/41882-can-i-modify-the-size-of-my-webmix

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  17. I have used many of the tools to embed on a webpage in the past. I love Voice Threads and Animoto. I also love Voki. I have used this when making test, quizzes, or writing prompts in Discover Education. This allows students to listen to your directions. They allow you to embed code into their text boxed in all of their builder tools. I have not used the sound tools, but think this is great for younger students who may be reading a passage or telling a story. I tried to embed a Blabber from the Blabberize site onto my blog, but you can only embed with the Pro version (too bad) so I made a link to the blabber. The link to my blog with the blabber link is below. http://amyard.edublogs.org/2015/03/04/the-lion-and-the-mouse/

  18. Our parish does a wonderful job with technology professional development, therefore I was very familiar with most of the tools that were mentioned. In addition to taking the classes myself, I am generally responsible for redelivering the information to our faculty as well.
    I really wanted to embed the school’s intro video on the blog page but that feature is only available with the pro version. So, I am including the link to my actual website that features a lot of the tools you mentioned today. http://www.tangischools.org/Domain/645 I have a link to a few Glogsters, an Animoto video, and links to other blog pages as well as live binders. You can also visit the IMMS homepage which features the video along with daily broadcasts that are embedded every afternoon. http://www.tangischools.org/imms

  19. I embedded some cool tools onto my webpage. Animoto is one of my favorites! You can see this on my About Page: https://sjaslmc.edublogs.org/about-us/.

    Another tool I like is Acapelatv – http://www.acapela.tv/en/talking-cards/ .You can see this on my Home page. http://sjaslmc.edublogs.org. You can make a short video with various cartoon pictures and embed it on your page. The kids love it.

    On my Blog Guidelines page, I used Google Forms for my Proper Use and Consent Form. You can find this at http://sjaslmc.edublogs.org/blogging-guidelines/. I also used it on my How to Comment page for an online quiz and lastly I used the form on Our Staff/Welcome page for Eagle Press Permission Slip. What I like best about Google forms is that it will automatically compile on the information onto a spreadsheet. Then you can compile facts into charts and isolate and analyze you data.

    When I go live I will use AudioBoo. These way students can use their iPads to record audios onto their blogs. Since I have Mac’s, I will also have students use Voice Threads.

    I had one of my students create an avatar using Voki. She then recorded her voice. You can hear her on the page called Blog Guidelines. You can find this at https://sjaslmc.edublogs.org/blogging-guidelines/. It was a little difficult to get use to using. Don’t make my mistake. You must record your voice before you make your avatar. If you use an iPads you must download Puffin Academy. Then search for Voki and open it.

  20. I was able to embed my URL to my twitter feed, but did not have much luck for embedding code with my voki. 🙁 Perhaps someone can explain why? It is saved on my Voki account and I copied the embed code but it does not show …

    http://nancyvculture.edublogs.org/

    I’m interested in working with LiveBinders next …

    1. Hi Nancy

      I’m sorry but you can only add embed code to Edublogs Pro blogs and student blogs attached to a Pro blog via My Class. We can’t allow it on free blogs due to misuse by spam blog creators (people who create blogs to promote products and websites).

      But all blogs can embed some media using their URL as shown here – http://help.edublogs.org/embedding-with-a-url/

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  21. I am familiar with most of these cool tools and can verify that they are all worthy of attention from educators! I teach classes for teachers that include just about all of the tools mentioned in this post. For this task I added a new post for Animoto and attempted to embed one of my animoto videos. Embedding of these tools can only be done with the Pro version of Edublogs, so I posted the link on my blog.
    http://dspears.edublogs.org/2015/02/19/animoto/?preview=true&preview_id=37&preview_nonce=393a788378&post_format=standard

    1. Hi Jenny

      Thanks for sharing a link to your post with the embed Google form. Great work!

      I’ve just made a quick adjustment to the iFrame height in the embed code so that the entire form displays in the post and you don’t have to scroll. Hope that is okay?

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  22. Hi,
    I embeded a photo peach that I created 2 years ago. The only problem is I wanted to post it to the page General, but don’t know how to do that. It is currently on my home page. Could you let me know how to do this?
    I am familiar with many of the tools mentioned and have used them with children – prezi, glogster, padlet (my favourite one at the moment) and photo peach. I have also participated in conferences using voice thread. I have also used wordle and haiku deck to create things (wordle is a great assessment tool). I have spoken to one of the teachers about using Fotobabble next term as we were going to make iMovies but I think it would be a great introduction (as they have never done iMovies before) and then use popplet to do the story boards before the iMovie is made. I am also going to try Google Forms with the children as we currently use Google Docs and Presentations. I have also been using Google add ons (specifically mind meister).

    1. Hi Cheryl

      Thanks for sharing a list of the different tools you have tried!

      You will need to add it to the page. You won’t be able to embed it in a comment. All you need to do is go to http://library1884.edublogs.org/general/ as a logged in user, click Edit link in the admin bar and then paste the code into Embed Media in the Add Media window.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  23. I created a Voki for my About page… so fun! I can’t wait for my students to check it out. I also registered and received 6 months free for me and up to 50 students on the Animoto site. I think I will incorporate this into a lesson… possibly a short “PSA” style ad on a social issue that uses photographs that the students have taken as well as some research info.
    Amy Capalbo

      1. Hi Amy, thanks for sharing a link! The Voki looks really good. Looking forward to seeing the videos you and your students create using Animoto.

        Sue Waters
        Support Manager
        Edublogs | CampusPress

  24. I can’t embed any videos or links as I am using the free version. Is there any way I can still take part in this challenge? I think I’ve come a long way and learnt A LOT through the different step of this challenge. If nothing else then I’ll just hyperlink the tools and complete this task. What do you suggest?

    1. That looks fun and festive!

      I’m excited to test out the new Google Forms templates that are being rolled out. Looks nice!

      Dan Leeman, Edublogs Support

    1. Hi Mrs Macinnis

      Survey monkey is really good. The other option to look at for Survey’s is Google Forms.

      Google forms allows you to embed within the post and I like to use the summary of results for presenting the data. Here is the survey form we use for our blog survey – http://www.theedublogger.com/2014/05/28/2014-survey/ and then we use the results like this – http://theedublogger.com/2013/08/08/the-state-of-educational-blogging-2013/

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  25. Hello!

    Since I am not a pro user, I just embeded a few videos that I use in my classroom about learning letters and numbers. I also gave credit to the makers of each video underneath the video. There are so many other neat things that I would do if I was a pro user, but right now I am happy with how this blog is turning out. I know that I will be referring to it when I am teaching my 4K wrap around children.

    Thanks,
    Roxane

    1. Hi Leah

      Love how you created an Animoto to share art work. Great idea. I’ve tweeted out a link to the post so others can check out how you can use it for this type of activity.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

    1. Hi Mrs C

      Great work embedding a video!

      Please let us know which tools you would like to embed so we can explain where to find their embed code.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  26. It is too early in the year, but I am going to have students embed their Prezi within their blogs. We made Prezis last year and had edu blogs, but I was unaware of these feature! It should look much better seeing their Prezi within their blogs!

    1. Hi Brandon

      Prezi’s look really good embedded into posts. Let us know if you need any help finding the Prezi embed code.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  27. Wow! I am truly in awe at all the options there are. I have made a list detailing them all. I don’t want to forget them. I really liked AudioBoo, SoundCloud and FotoBabble. I have used Voki and Padlet before with much success, but I am looking forward to trying these new ones out.

    I have inserted a Padlet into the post I am currently writing. We were learning about the letter S, so I included the Padlet to help generate some words that begin with that letter so that anyone can add to it. http://essexcounty.edublogs.org/?p=58

  28. I am struggling a bit with this challenge. I don’t quite understand where I find the embedded code….I decided to introduce poplet to my class, as I thought it would be an easy tool to use for brainstorming an upcoming research project. I want to embed the video you shared on the challenge page…but all I got was the link. I originally explored scribd, thought it would be an easy way to add content…but yikes I don’t want to ‘publish’ it to the world! I think I’ll just do a screen capture and add it in as a pic 🙂

    1. Hi Mrs C

      Are you able to provide a link to your Popplet and let me know which post you want it added to? This should help me explain where to find the embed code and how to add to your post.

      Scribd is very popular if you want to embed a document inside a player so it can be easily read online.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

      1. Thanks Sue for your feedback. After a bit more effort, I was able to find the code to embed the content I was looking for. I also found an option to schedule posts so that I can write them ahead of time and post them when the class is ready for the lesson. This is a great feature! The post with popplet is ‘scheduled’ so you will not be able to view it for a few more days. The link: http://cunninghamclass.edublogs.org/
        Mrs. C

  29. One of my favorite tools for younger students is blabberize.com. It allows you manipulate a photo and record your voice so it seems the photo is speaking. It is similar to Voki, but a bit easier for younger students as there are fewer choices to make in creating your talking image. My fourth graders were creating blabbers after two periods – one period to explore and the other to create their blabber. I used it last year during a poetry unit. The students created a blabber and recorded themselves saying tongue twisters. Their blabbers were fun and funny!

    I added a blabber to the front page of my blog, but I don’t like where it sits. It seems gratuitous and looks like it was dumped in the middle of the page. As the year progresses, I would love to have my 2nd graders create blabbers. They are always a hoot!

    1. Hi Amanda

      blabberize.com is a great website for ESL and EFL students; and to use with younger students. Thanks for sharing how you use blabberize with your students. Are you able to share a link so others can check out how you use it?

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  30. struggling on this challenge the ones i have tried have either wanted to charge me to join up popplet or have timed out on sign up (glogster) and most aren’t really floating my boat for what i want to do with my blog. i can see the potential in some but not able to find how to use them fotobabbel. what about youtube? i’d like to start posting some how to videos the kids produce to a place like youtube to put on the blog. educreations is another fun one but i have no idea if it can be embedded or not lol sorry this is a bit all over the place

    1. Hi Leah

      Embeds can be a lot of fun but it can be challenging to work out what ones you want to try. Other things you need to take into account are the age of your students, if you want them to be using the online tool, if you are using a computer or an iPad. If you can share a bit more about your class I can check with educators who teach similar ages to find out what is their favorite tools.

      YouTube is easily embedded and we include tips for using YouTube in the next post.

      There is an option to embed on the Educreation page. You click on the link that says Embed on the web and the copy the embed code. If you look at this Educreation – https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/metric-si-and-measurement/619349/ you will see the Embed on the web link on the right hand side.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  31. Thank you for all these lovely embeds.
    I use Ispikit for pronunciation with my ESL students. Here you are some entries with various pronunciation missions for them to practise certain sounds they find difficult. Most of my learners are Spaniards, so the activities focus on pronouncing what they find most tricky as well as a bit of intonation, stress and rhythm.

    http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/pronunciation-augh-and-ough.html
    http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/pronouncing-homographs.html
    http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/pronouncing-homophones.html
    http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/pronouncing-word-families.html

    Best regards

    1. Hi Maria

      Thanks for sharing! I noticed that you need to download the Ispikit plugin to use. I’m wondering if you have tried AudioBoo or SoundCloud and if they are a better option since you don’t have to install a plugin?

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

      1. I know both, Sue, thanks, actually I’ve used SoundCloud a lot with my students, http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/p/our-classroom-podcasts.html but I think the aim is different. I use ispikit for them to compare their pronunciation with native speakers’ one, which is added value ispikit gives you to practise just that, pronunciation.
        Soundcloud, Audioboo, Ivoox and so forth are great for fostering speaking and listening skills!
        Thanks for reading my comments

  32. Wow you have shared so many embed options! I have only ever used Prezi.
    It’s great to know these things can be used/created and then put on my blog!

    1. Hi Dallas

      There are so many things you can embed. It was hard to decide what to include so we tried to limit it to the ones we know are the most popular and include examples of how you might use.

      Laura Moore has some really great posters on this post that you can download and adapt to use with students – http://mooreti.edublogs.org/2014/09/01/what-will-you-create-today-2/ The ideas is the students can read the information on the different tools and work out what they want to try.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  33. To keep track of books students have read I use Shelfari and to have students make interactive presentations I have recently have them use thinglink.com (a very cool interactive simplified presentation tool).

    I will add that it is frustrating to read what we are supposed to do this week, but not be able to do certain things since I am not a pro user. This should 1) be said in the directions; and 2) not be stated if everyone cannot do them.

    1. Hi Kara

      We can appreciate your frustrations but the Teacher Challenge is designed for educators using any blogging platform – some are on Edublogs free and Pro, while others are on Blogger, WordPress, etc.

      We think embedding media is an important function of blogging, so it’s important that we mention it in the Teacher Challenge.

      Ideally it would be good to include in our instructions which platforms do and don’t support embedding, and it would be good to explain how you embed with each platform. The challenge is it varies considerably, For example, you can’t embed at all in WordPress.com and can only add media if they include a shortcode or embed option for that service. We would love to allow all our users to be able to embed but can’t because how misuse by spam blog creators on free blogs.

      You are able to embed using the URL option – http://www.theedublogger.com/2014/08/15/blogging-tip-embed-content-with-just-a-url/

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  34. I have tried multiple times to embed Prezi in a post, but it does not show when I go to either the page or preview. I have followed the steps, so what else can I do?

    1. Hi KBeal

      I’m sorry and you aren’t doing anything wrong. Only Edublogs Pro blogs, student blogs attached to a Pro blog via My Class and CampusPress blogs can add embed code to text widgets and embed code to posts and pages. We can’t allow it on free blogs because people who create blogs to promote products and websites use the ability to embed in ways we can’t allow.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  35. Hi Linda

    Great working adding the Voki, widgets and the Scribd to y our blog!

    Sue Waters
    Support Manager
    Edublogs | CampusPress

  36. Just had a play with Fotobabble, and embedded one into a draft, will make a real one with children next week. Have used photopeach, That’s a good little slide show tool, although I found I lost the edges of images, and had to retake my pics with bigger borders. I use VIMEO a lot to insert videos. It’s a very nifty easy to use tool, although we have just discovered that the new mini iPad’s videos can go straight onto our blogs so can bypass the VIMEO effort, unlike our older iPads. Thanks.

    1. Hi Fiona

      I love Fotobabble and PhotoPeach is very popular especially with younger primary school students.

      If you are uploading videos to a blog using the Edublogs app you do need to be aware that the embedded video won’t play in all web browsers. If you want a video to play in all web browser than it is better to upload to a video web site and then add to your post.

      Sue Waters
      Support Manager
      Edublogs | CampusPress

  37. I’ve add voki and the Internet safety guidelines fro Scribd to my site. The process of embedding was very intuitive. Thanks for all the great suggestions.

Leave a Reply to Dan Leeman Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *