A taste of web Østfold county library Within the past year online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily upload and share videos on the web. YouTube (www.youtube.com) is currently at the top serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites easily. Do some searching around Youtube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You’ll find everything from 1970 tv commercials to libary dominos. There’s also the cult classic Conan the barbarian. Here is a brief description of how to get the most out of youtube: This is the front page of youtube. In order to start watching videos, go to the top centre and write part or the whole name of the video you want to watch. Click search.
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A taste of web Østfold county library
Within the past year online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily upload and share videos on the web. YouTube (www.youtube.com) is currently at the top serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites easily. Do some searching around Youtube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You’ll find everything from 1970 tv commercials to libary dominos. There’s also the cult classic Conan the barbarian. Here is a brief description of how to get the most out of youtube:
This is the front page of youtube. In order to start watching videos, go to the top centre and write part or the whole name of the video you want to watch. Click search.
Depending on your search, you should get something like this. Here is a list of the videos that matched your search. Search through the videos until you find the one you want to watch. Click on the link next to the video or the video itself. There are many options available to you when watching videos on youtube. Not only can you watch the video, you can:
- Comment on it. - See how many people have watched the video. - Watch other videos that have been uploaded by the same user (look at the blue box). - Add the video to your Social networking website, like Facebook or Twitter (look at
the red box). - Add the video to your website by linking the video to your site (look at the light green
box).
A taste of web Østfold county library
The difference between linking a video and embedding it is when you link it, the video is displayed as a clickable link. Embedding a video means the video is directly shown in your website. Tasks
1. Go to www.youtube.com. 2. In the search field, write part or the whole name of the video you want to watch. Click
search 3. To watch a video, click either on the link or the picture next to it. 4. After watching a few videos, write a post in your blog about your experiences with
Youtube. 5. Copy the URL of the video, then click on “add video”. See the picture under for
![[hyperlink all url sites; should be clickable]](https://static.documents.pub/doc/80x56/585115d11a28abfa398bb984/hyperlink-all-url-sites-should-be-clickable.jpg)
