Puppy Cam: An Example of How You Can Embed Media in Moodle
Creating interactive web sites is all the rage. Why? Interaction pays off big for engagement, whether you’re working with K-12 or adult learners. There are MANY tools available to embed content, and usually, I wouldn’t even spend time on them. What is worth spending time on is WHERE you are going to embed them. As I prepare for a Moodle workshop focused on multimedia, it seems only natural to compile a list of places that have content.
One of my favorites is embedding webcams…like the puppies shown at the top of this blog entry. Simply highlight, copy and then paste it into your Moodle HTML page, block, forum post, whatever…it works!
For Moodle, you’ll want to do two things:
1) Multimedia Filters – Turn them on
2) In SECURITY->SITE POLICIES, allow embedding:
WHAT CAN I EMBED?
Here are 48+ neat providers of content that you can embed–or place–on a web page. This is content that can easily be “embedded” in blogs, wikis, and/or Moodle. Some of it you can make yourself, while others comes from other sources.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to all who offered suggestions for what to list here, including the following: Joel Adkins, Andy Byerly, Matt Bucher, Carolyn Foote, Peggy George, Ginger Lewman, Danny Maas, Carol Nichols Mortensen, NedraI, Roswells Girl.
Audio/Video
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- Animoto.com
- Archive.org
- Blip.tv
- Drop.io – Create audio content via phone or upload then embed it.
- Edublogs.tv
- Embedr.com – Allows you to embed videos from various sources in ONE play window.
- FreeSound.org
- Magnatune.com
- MathTV.com
- MusOpen.com – Embed free public domain classical music
- Vimeo.com
- Voicethread.com
- YouTube.com
Cartoons and Animation/Avatars
Chat and Gadgets
obj=new Object;obj.clockfile=”0053-red.swf”;obj.TimeZone=”PST”;obj.width=150;obj.height=150;obj.wmode=”transparent”;showClock(obj);
- ClockLink – Enables you to embed all sorts of clocks.
- MeeboMe – Embed chat window
- Wallwisher.com
Documents (PDF/Slideshows/Posters)
Voice Thread Tutorial
- Edu.Glogster.com
- Issuu.com – Embed PDF files
- GoogleDocs
- Zoho
- Prezi.com
- Scribd.com
- Slide.com
- Slideshare.net
- ShowBeyond.com
- Voicethread.com
Graphic Organizers
Images and Photos
Surveys and Graphs
Create your own poll and then embed the form and/or results. Or, create graphs with data.
- BuzzDash.com
- Chartle.net
- ChartGo
- Create a Graph
- Do It Yourself Chart
- GoogleForms
- GraphJam.com (this is my favorite graph maker, even though you can’t necessarily embed stuff with code…but you can copy-n-paste it once a grpah y
- iCharts
- Online Chart Generator
- PollDaddy.com
- PollEverywhere.com
- Rich Chart Live
WebCams
Online Lesson Activities
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Thanks for the info!I've followed all your steps and still can't get the polleverywhere.com widget so people can vote to embed. It keeps stripping the code. Any ideas?Cheers,Jeff
Thanks for the info!I've followed all your steps and still can't get the polleverywhere.com widget so people can vote to embed. It keeps stripping the code. Any ideas?Cheers,Jeff
@Jeff, howdy! Hmm…I just got it to embed without problem. Here are the steps:1) In Moodle Admin–>Security–>Site Policies, make sure you have ALLOW EMBED and OBJECT TAGS checked.2) In the same place, make sure you check ENABLE TRUSTED CONTENT3) In Poll Everywhere poll, make sure to turn on the web widget.4) In Moodle, switch to HTML view, and paste in the embed text (I chose blogger embed text) you copied from Poll Everywhere.5) Click SAVE AND DISPLAY (rather than the other) WHILE STILL IN HTML view.You can see the example:http://intouch.saisd.net/learn/mod/resource/view.php?id=456Hope this helps,Miguel Guhlin
@Jeff, howdy! Hmm…I just got it to embed without problem. Here are the steps:1) In Moodle Admin–>Security–>Site Policies, make sure you have ALLOW EMBED and OBJECT TAGS checked.2) In the same place, make sure you check ENABLE TRUSTED CONTENT3) In Poll Everywhere poll, make sure to turn on the web widget.4) In Moodle, switch to HTML view, and paste in the embed text (I chose blogger embed text) you copied from Poll Everywhere.5) Click SAVE AND DISPLAY (rather than the other) WHILE STILL IN HTML view.You can see the example:http://intouch.saisd.net/learn/mod/resource/view.php?id=456Hope this helps,Miguel Guhlin
Same problem here. I'm on Moodle 2.0 and can't seem to get the above steps to work, any advise?
Same problem here. I'm on Moodle 2.0 and can't seem to get the above steps to work, any advise?