Learning Report 8

How to Embed Video from Youtube

To embed a video in your website, you WILL want to read Blaine Robertson's tutorial on embedding video from popular sites to strict xhtml pages. This tutorial helped me save hours of time. I don't think there is any other way to do it without getting thirty errors from the url you are inserting.

That tutorial can be found here.

Basically, you just copy the code from the 'embed' box to the right of the video on youtube, plug it into Bro. Robertson's nifty converter, copy again from the converter and paste the converted code onto your markup where you want the video to appear. It's simple.

By the way, this is a video of Billy Collins (Probably the greatest poet who isn't dead) reading his poem The Lanyard.

I like Billy Collins because he writes simple poems that have profound meaning as opposed to deep meaning. Poetically, his work is fascinating. Listening to his stuff at first, it doesn't seem like stiff poetry, but his rhythms are well metered and he has taken great care in where he has lain each syllable. It's not 'stiff' poetry, it just neat. I think it's fascinating how he can write such serious poetry and have it be humorous. He's great. He has a couple other videos on youtube and you can find his poetry all over the internet. On Turning Ten and The Art of Drowning are a couple more poems that I like from Billy Collins.

Learning how to embed this video has helped my site by allowing me an easy way to show video clips without transferring the actual video to my site. I can add commentaries about books and poems I have read, or I can include videos from authors reading their poetry and comment of the poem itself. Videos are great ways to communicate and I plan on including an occasional video when it will benefit my site.