There surely is a lot out there in video land. And YouTube did make it easy to embed a video in my blog. the only tricky thing I had to do was adjust the width in the HTML code to 230 so the video would fit on my sidebar.
Copy the code from the Embed bar while you are watching the video. Go to layout, click on "Add a page element" then HTML/Javascript Add to blog button. In the popup window, paste the code that you copied into the content area. Look in the code and change the width from 425 to 230 and clickSave. You're done!
I chose the TVTurnoff Week video because I am a passionate believer in the concept. While I was growing up, the TV was always on and I also watched a lot of TV as an adult. It is amazing what we will watch even though we are bemoaning the fact that there is nothing on. After a Scientific American article on the addictiveness of TV, Alan and I gave up TV completely during TV Turnoff Week 2004. (We do watch the occasional DVD) It was hard in the beginning (It is a real addiction--you do go through a withdrawal of sorts).
Here is the link if you want to check out the article. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005339B-A694-1CC5-B4A8809EC588EEDF
Clearly, this kind of video would be appropriate on the library website as we celebrate TV Turnoff Week. And I am sure there are many other things that can enrich the content of a website or blog. To keep our sites user friendly, we need to use all these kinds of tricks to get people to keep visiting.
Have fun with your video. (And I hope you don't watch too much TV!)
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