Basic Lesson 5: Embedding YouTube Video in Posts

YouTube is full of useful videos that you or your students may want to add to a blog. Also, many of our students are posting video at YouTube that they made themselves which might make a great addition to a blog. Fortunately, since Google owns Blogger and YouTube, it is easy to integrate YouTube video into your blog.

This is an example of what video looks like when embedded in a blog. Just click the arrow in the middle of the window to play the video.



Follow these easy steps to embed YouTube video into your blog posts.

Step 1: Locate the appropriate video on YouTube.

Step 2: Find the embed code box located next to the video on YouTube. Click in the embed box to highlight the code. Right click when the code is highlighted and click copy.



Step 3: So far you have been working on the Compose Tab of the posting window. This hides all HTML code from you. However, when working with embedding video (or other HTML code) in a post, it is best to work in the Edit Html window. Just click the Edit Html tab to switch over.



Step 4: Paste the embed code that you copied into the appropriate place in your posting text window. The video will now appear in your post as it does above in this post.