Today Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School have used YouTube in school to view a video, made by Edinburgh University, of their engineers taking part in the December First Lego league.
The video has also been embedded on their school web site, where it can be easily found by parents. Since YouTube was recently made available in East Lothian schools, it has proved to be a valuable learning resource.
If you’re an edubuzz blogger and you’d like to embed a YouTube video on your site, just use the toolbar button that’s a yellow circle with a letter “A” on it to paste in the video’s web address and publish as normal.
Including a photo gallery in your posts or pages is now a whole lot easier. And here’s what they look like:
This big improvement is a built-in feature of the current WordPress MU software. It offers great potential for school use:
- It provides really good support for commenting on individual images, not just one the post.
- It allows photos to be displayed with captions.
Go and take a look at the original post on the King’s Meadow site to see it in action.
It’s also the ideal way to show off collections of photos of paintings or other activities where your audience might still want to have a good look at an individual photo, and not watch it quickly change into another one as part of a slideshow!
To use it, just upload a set of images in the usual way. Just don’t hit “Insert in Post” while you’re working with the individual images, use Insert Gallery instead. You’ll just see the word Gallery in square brackets, but the image gallery will displayed when the post or page is visited.
Primary 3/4 at Whitecraig Primary School decided that people from outside Whitecraig didn’t know anything about it, and that they would use their project to do something about it.
The children were keen for the challenge and discussed in groups how they could share information about the village. Various ideas were suggested including writing reports, taking photographs and recording their own video. Â
The children were keen for the challenge and discussed in groups how they could share information about the village. Various ideas were suggested including writing reports, taking photographs and recording their own video. Â
The result was the video which you can see over at their school site. It’s a great example of how web publishing enables what might be just a “pretend” classroom activity to be transformed into a real, relevant task, with a real audience, which really can make a difference. Why not have a look, and leave them a comment to let them know what you think?
