Author: John Johnston

  • Video Test

    The same very small (375kb) video uploaded directly to a blog and to a sway. Standard WordPress   Sway

  • Sway Video

    Will this work? Yup, what I did was make a Sway, it only has a Title Card and a Video Card. I uploaded a mpg4 to the video card of around 100mb. I made the sway public. I pasted the url of the sway into the blog editor on a line by itself. This is…

  • Mobile Photos

  • Example mobile

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  • YouTube Embed

    You need to have activated Jetpack plugin and shortcode module if you are pasting in iframe embed code.

  • YouTube No Related Videos

    If you do not want related videos shown at the end of your video, you add ?rel=0 after the url before pasting it in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2wrYBPLsxg?rel=0 You can see the url I pasted in as an example as it is not on a line by itself. The video was added by pasting the url with ?rel=0 on…

  • Slate embed

    The Devil’s Pulpit On twitter Craig Wilson asked about embedding Adobe slates. I just grabbed the code from an old one to test. It is not really an embed. It is just an image with a link. It works fine here in glow blogs. You need to switch to the text editor to paste in…

  • An Example Post with a Cloud

    This is a picture of the sky.  

  • Multiple image uploads on iOS

    It is now possible to upload multiple photos on iOS using Mobile Safari to Glow Blogs. I am not sure when this change happened and if it is due to upgrades to iOS/Safari or the recent WordPress upgrade on Glow Blogs. Here is a gallery uploaded from my iPad. And here is another one showing…

  • Learning about copyright

    Today I am in Glenboig Primary talking about copyright. Primary 4/5 are learning to blog. We looked at pics4learning.com where I got this nice photo of a Mountain Lion. It was taken by Michael D. Hall.   It is important only to use picture you are allowed to. Pics4learning.com allows you to use their pictures if…

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