You can ’embed’ a Microsoft Form in a Glow Blog post or page. Just paste in the sharing URL. It will be automatically expanded. This will not be the form but a link to the form in an image. This is unlike Google Forms which will embed the form in a way it can be filled in on your site.
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H5P
you can embed content created on another Glow Blog with the H5P plugin. There are more details of how to get the embed code on the H5P example sharing page.
[h5piframe url="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/h5pexamples/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&id=25" width="1198" height="699" ] give you this:
You can also embed content from an external h5p site, h5p.org or h5p.com by pasting in the url.
RSS
You can bring in a list of posts from another blog or site via RSS. If you are using the block editor you can use the RSS block, if you are using the older classic editor the RSS feed can only go in a Widget in the sidebar or other widget area.
Below we have used the RSS block to show the latest posts from the H5P examples glow blog site.
For glow blogs the RSS feed is just the sites URL with /feed/ at the end of it so this sites would be: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/embeds/feed/
The display can be customised by using the Blocks more settings to sho the author, date or excerpt. You can also display news from other sites in this example we use the feed from BBC Scotland news on this one we are showing the date & an excerpt:
- The most petty and ill-informed football show on radio.
- Monica Lennon was speaking after Jamie Hepburn resigned as a minister following an incident in parliament.
- Emergency teams are taking part in the search after reports the woman entered the water at Dumbarton.
- Jamie Hepburn's resignation and the SNP's ban on new nuclear reactors make the front pages.
- Celtic not prepared to cash in on defender as last season's temporary Rangers boss responds to comments on 'constructive' criticism.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive has a huge collection of digital resources of all sorts. It supplies an embed code to embed them on your blog.
You need to have activated the Jetpack Plugin and the shortcode module.
for example:
[archiveorg 78_boum_charles-trenet-trenet_gbia0122226a width=640 height=50 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true]
gives you:
and:
[archiveorg HowtoUse1927 width=640 height=480 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true]
A book example:
To embed any content click the Share link
and then copy the WordPress shortcode:
:
images too:
prezi
You need to activate the WordPrezi plugin.
For a prezi with a url of https://prezi.com/view/5N3TTfbIsN4sUGQ5N0pi/
you need to use this shortcode
[prezi url="http://prezi.com/view/5N3TTfbIsN4sUGQ5N0pi/embed" width="550" height="400" zoom_freely="N" ]
You can generated it here: WordPrezi · Embed Prezi into WordPress using the WordPress.org option. 13 Jun 2023, the site seems to be down at the moment, you can copy the above shortcode and change the url.
waklet
Updated June 2023 Glow blogs now supports pasting the waklet embed code into the Blog editor. It will then turn into a shortcake. This supports the different layouts and settings provided by waklet:
ThingLink
Sample 360 image embed
Update 2024 Free ThingLink accounts no longer work so the example embeds have broken. The above ones works as it is a thinklink example. The examples below, created with a free legacy account no longer work.
With deep regret, we must inform you that as of 31st January 2024, we will no longer be able to support the legacy free teacher accounts that have been in use for a very long time. This decision was not made lightly, and we understand that it may impact some of our valued users.
from: Important Announcement and 50% Discount for Upgrading Your Teacher Account | ThingLink Blog
Update June 2023, the ThingLink embed have been updated and improved. You now paste in the embed code from ThingLink and it is turned into the correct shortcode. This means any setting you make in ThingLink are respected.
paste in the embed code:
On paste the code will change into a shortcode:
[glowthinglink width="960" height="720" data-original-width="1024" data-original-height="768" src="https://www.thinglink.com/view/scene/1699447694205912035" type="text/html" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen scrolling="no"]
Which will display the content as above.
If you are using the new block editor, you need to switch to using the classic editor for the post or page. Once you have converted the embed code in the classic editor you can switch back to the block editor and convert the classic block.
Here is a video example (it only has a couple of hot-spots):
Information about ThingLink accounts
In the past ThingLink had free limited account. This has recently changed. If you have an existing account it will be honoured.
ThingLink Education Accounts and Pricing Update
Quite a few Scottish Local authorities have ThingLink accounts so can use all the features.
Legacy ThingLink accounts
It is worth noting ThingLink puts some limits on embedding with an old legacy free account. Sharing 360 videos is not available and free accounts can only have 1000 views on shared content (more details below). This functionality is dependent on ThingLink and may change.
Sharing 360 videos is available only under the School & Districts plan. Please upgrade your account to share the link or embed the content onto a website, LMS, and social media.
ThingLink put limits on the number of views your content can have when embedded. For example a free account only allows 1000 views. After that the embed is replace with a link.
Views are counted when a direct link or webpage with ThingLinks embedded is loaded and each load counts as one view.
We limit the number of views for each user with a view quota calculated based on the total views during the last 12 months. We do not increase the view count when you view your own content (as long as you are logged in).
Your current number of views and the view limit is displayed in your Profile settings -> Billing tab:
from: Views: what are they & how to purchase more – ThingLink
A free account is limited to 1000 views, this is total views not views of a single piece of content.
Here is an example of a ThingLink account has run out of views.
Some ThingLink like functionality is available by other means in Glow Blogs. The Draw Attention plugin can make interactive images like the one above and H5P can produce 360 tours.
Micro:bit
You can show different views of a published micro:bit project in the code view, editor or simulator (links to more example embeds)
Glow blogs uses a special shortcode to show the code:
[glowmicrobit url="_MicrobitCode" code] where _MicrobitCode is the last slug of the url. To get the code you need to:
- Share your microbit project,
- Publish it
- copy the url for example: https://makecode.microbit.org/_gww1kCPdL5od
- use the last section in the glowmicrobit shortcode: [glowmicrobit url="_gww1kCPdL5od" simulator] adding simulator, code or editor depending on which url you want to show.
Here is what you will get:
Simulator
NB there is a problem with the micro:bit embed code for the simulator. We are awaiting a fix from micro:bit. For now we recommend using the editor version. On the editor the play button will show the simulator correctly.
[glowmicrobit url="_gww1kCPdL5od" simulator] gives:
Editor
[glowmicrobit url="_gww1kCPdL5od" editor] gives:
Code
[glowmicrobit url="69362-76330-54511-95403" code] gives:
FlipGrid
paste in the url
Padlet
Padlet
paste in the URL
