VirtualMV/Digital Learning Technologies/Connected media
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Overview
Connected media has become an important technology for web designers to include in their web pages. The ability to link to an external site and display interactive content, such as a map, or a social networking tool (like twitter), further enhances the usefulness of the site and allows users to access external sites without having to leave your site.
Read wiki page Connected Media
In WikiEducator you are limited to the connected media that has been authorised. You can find out which extensions have been authorised on the Special version page http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Special:Version , however this doesn't help to find what embedded media are allowed in WikiEducator. The Widgets extension allows you to insert media such as YouTube videos (unfortunately this is not enabled in WikiEducator). I have enabled them in my personal wiki and have illustrated how this is achieved in the Connected Media page.
List of connected media options for WikiEducator
- BlipTV ( http://wikieducator.org/Template:BlipTV )
WordPress
Adding a Twitter feed
For WordPress instructions are at
- http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/
- you need to create a User widget
Uploading via eMail
A very handy option is Wordpress is the ability to post directly using email. On the iPad/iPhone if you have email set up, you can post an interesting link by using Share > email and emailing to the WordPress Site. Just set up the email address as a contact in your phone.
- For instructions on how to set this up
Sending your Posts to Twitter
Additionally you can set up WordPress to automatically post the title to Twitter. This can be enhanced if you remember to add a hash tag to the WordPress Post title.
- For instructions on how to set this up
Media Wiki
Adding an RSS Feed into WikiEducator
- use the <rss> .. </rss> tag. For example
<rss>http://virtualmv.wordpress.com/feed/|short|date|max=5</rss>
Which produces...(I have added a box around it) ...
 virtualmv Blog RSS |
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Failed to load RSS feed from http://virtualmv.wordpress.com/feed/|short|date|max=5: Error fetching URL: Maximum (0) redirects followed |
References
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virtualMV | Superquick wiki guide | Please give me some feedback |
VirtualMV/Digital Learning Technologies/Connected media. (2024). In WikiEducator/VirtualMV wiki. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from http:https://wikieducator.org/VirtualMV/Digital_Learning_Technologies/Connected_media (zotero)
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