This tutorial is especially for participants in the ELT MOOC professional Development course on WiziQ.

ClubEFL is our multi-media blogging pace and showcase for sharing techniques and teaching ideas.

This is a wordpress blog.

Here's a quick guide to adding videos to your blog. videos are beautiful and bring your blog to life. 

Step one:

Click inside your blogging space.

Step two:

Click on the You Tube icon.

Step three:

Type the name of the video you want into the search field.

Step four:

Click 'get code'.

Step five:

Now the video is in your blog. Click save and publish.

To complete our demonstrations on how to create multi-media blogs, here is a short video and article about how to embed videos or presentations into your blog.

Step one:

Click inside blogging space.

Step two:

Click on the source button – top left.

Step three:

Copy the embed code from the website where your presentation or video is.

Step five:

Paste the embed code into the blogging space and click publish.

 

Blogging is much more exciting when you add images, videos and presentations for a multi-media effect. It's also great fun for students to try.

Here is an article and video about how to add images easily on ClubEFL.

Step one:

Click inside the typing field. 

Step two:

Find the image that you want to add to the blog. You can search on facebook, Flickr, google images, photobucket or other image sharing sites. It's best to respect copyright, of course, so make sure that you have a right to share the images. Flickr is a great place to find images which the photographers are happy to share as long as you includes 'image credits' and link to their name and Flickr profile.

When you have the image, right click and click on 'copy image URL'.

Step three:

Go back to your ClubEFL blogpage and click on the image icon.

Step four:

Paste the image URL into the URL field as shown below. Click inside the preview box to see the image. If you like it, click okay and then you've got it on the blog. 

Don't forget to save draft. Click publish.

Are you ready to begin?

Andrew's post-class assignment document