Adding+Widgets

On the top of the wiki page in the editor's toolbar there is a blue icon that looks like a TV set with rabbit ears. (For those of you under 20, it looks like a blue box with two antenae on top). This icon holds the widgets, or web gadgets, that allow you to add video, audio, etc. to your wiki. The Common Craft video about camping was a UTube find that was inserted using the widget.

To insert a movie: 1. Find the movie on UTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, or any place that hosts video and gives you a code to use to embed the video into a web page or wiki. If you look on any of these sites some embedding code will be given somewhere near the movie itself. On UTube it is located across from the movie in the right hand column. If you go back to the Common Craft movie and select it on the wiki and then click on the TVlooking widget, then on UTube, you'll see the embedding code for that movie.

2.After you find and copy the embedding code for your video, go to your wiki page and click on the blue icon, choose UTube or other choice. Paste the embedding code into that spot. Your video will look like a big gray square until you hit the save button. In the edit mode widget imported material doesn't show up as anything other than gray.

Below is an example of an RSS feed from the WELSTECH PODCAST page. You need to go to the page that you want to use the feed from and get the embed code for the RSS feed at this site. You simply copy and paste it into the RSS widget within that blue TV icon. Of course, as new episodes of the show come out, they automatically get included here. (Getting the idea how key that blue icon is to making your wiki come alive? It provides for the use of multimedia within you information.)

rss url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Welstech" link="true" number="3"