Reducing Video Size with Handbrake

Glow Blogs is not designed for hosting video. It is better, from a performance point of view, to upload video to a video hosting service and embed the video on your blog. That way the video hosting service will deal with encoding, providing different versions for different devices etc. If you upload to glow blogs … Continue reading Reducing Video Size with Handbrake

YouTube Related Videos

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb1lMgQluZQ?rel=0] if you add ?rel=0 to the end of a youtube video it will only show related videos from the same channel. It used to remove related videos altogether, but YouTube changed the way it works. It is most useful if you are publishing unlisted videos, there will themn be no videos shown at the … Continue reading YouTube Related Videos

Google Video

First you need to make sure the Jetpack plugin is activated and the shortcode module is turned on. A video in your google drive can be embedded: Upload to GoogleDrive Open The Google Video page and choose Share from the vertical ellipsis at the top right. In the Advanced settings make the video Public on … Continue reading Google Video

Creating a School Website Videos

Mr Feist, a Principal Teacher & Digital Leader of Learning in Mosspark Primary School in Glasgow, has produced a series of videos on creating a school website. The video are hosted on YouTube and displayed in Mr Feist’s Glow Blog: Creating a School Website for FREE! | The Digital Revolution You can Follow Mr Feist … Continue reading Creating a School Website Videos

7. Podcast or video blog

Pinkie St Peter’s Primary School Podcast is a podcast published on East Lothian’s Edubuzz blogging platform, you can do the same thing on Glow Blogs. We are living in a media centric world many young learners’ first port of call is youtube. A blog makes it easy to collate and share multimedia resources and publish you … Continue reading 7. Podcast or video blog

Glow Blogs New “New Site” Functionality

The latest release of Glow Blogs makes a slight change to how you create a new site. There is an added choice when creating a site: You can choose between the Classic and Block editor. Choosing Classic will create a site with the default editor for posts and pages is the classic editor and the … Continue reading Glow Blogs New “New Site” Functionality

H5P in Glow Blogs – News

The First Annual H5P Academy Awards were just announced. The winners in the different categories: Although they are all from higher education they give a good idea of how H5P can be used at a sophisticated level.  The winners are linked from the announcement. H5P updates There has been a new version of Game Map and … Continue reading H5P in Glow Blogs – News

Starting Blogging in the Classroom

Blogging by Pupils There are many ways you can use a blog. Here we are considering a blog where pupils post as part of their learning. A static website involves a fair bit of work and distances learners from the publishing process. Weblogs allow learners to become more directly involved in the publishing process without delving into … Continue reading Starting Blogging in the Classroom