Hi Jo, Below are two urls with some of the discussions that the community has had about third party media in WikiEducator:
http://tinyurl.com/n3x7cu http://tinyurl.com/le9r6u Regards, Rob On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Jo Fothergill<[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the links etc (Newbie tutorial #6 was the tutorial with images > and media) > > I've been working with a group of very experienced teachers who all have > used wikispaces extensively (one even featured as an author of how-to wikis > that people should visit) and who are struggling to do things in WE that > they can do in WS. > > For example: > > Wikispaces has a widget editor that allows us to embed anything (i haven't > come across any exceptions yet) into the wiki - video, slideshows, web pages > etc > http://room10rbs.wikispaces.com/T309Topic - this page has embedded content > from google docs & eXe (self-hosted) > http://room10rbs.wikispaces.com/Cheat_codes - this page has embedded content > including an etherpad, a game and instructions > http://room10rbs.wikispaces.com/Fun_Videos - this one has a youtube video > > When we use wikis for everyday class use or for reflective use > (http://dragonsinger.wikispaces.com/nzei) we're used to being able to embed > like this. > > When we were figuring out how to do all of this it was comparatively easy > (google) to find out how. Some of us have written help files/wikis to help > others as well. > > WE is much more complex in one way (different syntax to WS) but also the > ability to embed on the fly is not there (or at least we can't find it) > > Between us we've figured out kaltura, (at about 11pm last night) and the > audio (playmp3). But how would someone else find out how to do this? (the > newbie tutorial refers to intermediate tutorials but i can't find those yet > - have they been written?) I'd also like to be able to embed a slideshow for > instance (might be important as part of an online CV to show evidence of > things such as workshops). > > > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:14 PM, dragonsinger57 <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi all - I'm wondering where to find a guide on how to embed audio and >> video on WE. I understand that kaltura is used for video but can't see >> where the 'widget' code is to insert the video. >> >> I also know how to embed an audio file using <playmp3> but where are >> the instructions for this found? > > > -- > Jo Fothergill ... > ... mother of spacegirl and gravelboy > > http://dragonsinger57.com/ > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Dragonsinger57 > http://dragonsinger.wikispaces.com/ > http://room10rbs.wikispaces.com/ > http://room10rbs.edublogs.org/ > > ... i have a life ... it's on twitter! > http://twitter.com/KiwiJoe90 > > "...it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilisation where tree huggers & > whale huggers in their weirdness are acceptable while no one embraces the > last speakers of a language..." Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of > the World > > > > -- Robert Kruhlak Burnaby, BC CANADA (M) +1 778 230 1875 (E) [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
