So since I made a Voicethread with my little girl today I wanted to embed it. That turned out to be hard to do. Here is how I got it to work…
1. I searched Google.
2. I found the WordPress plugin on this forum page and installed it.
3. Now I have this neat little tab below my post editing.
And all I have to do is paste in the code it gives and presto!
Darn that was easy. Nice plugin, Voicethread!
You have to sign in to Voicethread before you see the screen above, which means you can only embed the voicethreads you create, or does it?
Using the syntax it offers, you can embed any voicethread, just by using the number of the thread itself. For example, the wordpress plugin tutorial address bar looks like this…
So if I use the syntax it offers (which looks like voicethread b=xxxx) surrounded by brackets, I can embed any voicethread.
Here is the voicethread wordpress plugin tutorial…
All I’ll do is replace xxxx with 4643.
[voicethread b=4643]
Voila! An embedded voicethread that I didn’t create.
Another way to post a VoiceThread to a learnerblog or edublog is to use the flash video address from the code generated by the “To Go” button. It looks like this:
http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=5469
Then you add it as a flash video with the second last button on the toolbar when you are writing your post.
Chris,
Did I miss something? Can’t you just embed the code? I’ve done that with previous voicethreads. WHat’s the advantage of the plugin?
I don’t know but it’s good to know that there IS a plug-in should there be any snags… I was just about to attempt to embed a voice thread on my own blog for the first time and was wondering if I would have any trouble. Thanks for these tips!
@shareski: When I embedded the code, it totally borked my blog. I’m not sure why Voicethread tore my theme up, but boy did it. Animoto did not, and their embed code is not significantly different. Being an old coder, I tried to work the code out a different way and it still wrecked it. Must be something with my theme, although it’s just object and embed codes, so not sure what the deal was.
Anyway, that’s why I needed the plugin. I don’t know if others who self-host WordPress can use the default embed code, I just know I couldn’t. Also there were issues with the visual editor trying to clean up the code. Naturally I disabled the visual editor and tried again only to get a borked blog.
Kudos for animoto working without issue though!
Chris
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