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It is very important for me - and I guess all the new generation of media users- to be able to embed all kinds of media in my blogs. I always travel  with my small digital camera that can take video clips and I document what I see by adding those clips together. That is a part of my dynamic portfolio, writing is not limited to just text but also expressing oneself in all kinds of media. I try to use low cost and free tools. Small digital cameras that have the option to take videoclips are not expensive and it cost nothing to have account on Youtube or Photobucket. Both these sites offer the possibilities to edit on-line but I prefer to use MovieMaker as sometimes the connection speed is limited. Here are my latest youtube videos, one is from culture night in Reykjavik last Friday and the second is from Gaypride 2007 in Reykjavik one week ago. 

I can see how many watch my videos, the culture night video which I uploaded to youtube yesterday has been watched over 300 times and the Gaypride video has been watched 785 times. Most clicks come from my Icelandic blog salvor.blog.is as I have embedded these videos into blogs, see here:

Menningarnótt 2007

Allt fyrir ástina

This Elgg version has very limited support for embedded media. That is frustrating as I use elgg with my students and I would like them to embed all kinds of media into there blogging posts. 

This is not just for fun that you embed media. This is part of todays education. This is part of the web environment today were you use all kinds of learning objects from varios sources.  An example is my blog post  Jarðskjálftar í heiminum about earthquakes where I embed widget that shows on google maps earthquakes that are now happening in the world.

Right now I am trying to make presentation in Zohow Show and this is a test to see if I can embed presentation in Elgg.

I was not able to use iframe in Elgg. I have used iframes in all kinds of web environments such as on my university Frontpage server. I do not think this poses any kind of security thread.

I paste the code here (it was removed when I tried to paste it as html): 

<iframe height="335" width="450" name="Welcome3" scrolling="no" src="http://show.zoho.com/embed?USER=paulallison&DOC=Old+Wine" frameBorder="0"> 

I wish Elgg would be better in embedded media. 

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