Inserting youtube videos in the wiki

Hi Everybody,

Here are the steps for embedding a youtube video in the wiki (handy if you come across a good video):

1. Click the "embed" icon below the video in youtube.
2. Copy the HTML code that appears in the box underneath the video.
3. Open up the wiki in Blackboard and click "edit wiki content".
4. Click the "toggle HTML source code" icon (i.e. < > )
5. Paste the youtube code wherever you want the video to appear (just be careful to paste it between the existing HTML sentences, not straight into one of them - the sentences start and finish with the '<' and '>'; otherwise the video will end up in the middle of a heading or a paragraph or whatever).

Don't be worried by the code. If anything goes wrong it's easy to fix, and besides, it's good to play around with these things at the start anyway. One trick is to copy the actual standard English text on the main wiki page before making any changes to the underlying HTML code. That way, you can just paste it in again afterwards if the code gets messed up.

If you have any questions give me a shout.

Oh, before I forget, there are loads of page-layout themes on the internet for myspace pages. We might be able to adapt one of them for our wiki page. So if you open up the wiki and see all kinds of weird colours and shapes, don't worry, it's probably just me experimenting with the themes!