How To: Embedding a Widget

You’ve written this super swell post on your favourite band and you want to include a mini-player from Bandcamp, Soundcloud etc.

Well, let me tell you.

1. Go to the website where the song (or whatever media you’re posting about) is hosted.

2. Locate and click the “Share” button. They all generally say the same thing, but it can also be called “Embed”.

3. Select and copy the share code. If it asks, as Soundcloud does, you’ll select the widget code because you want a simple mini-player to appear when your post goes up. Different name, same outcome.

4. Code copied? Time to go back to your post – take note of where it says HTML on the editor.

5. Go into the HTML tab and paste your copied code wherever you want to widget to appear e.g. above/below/in-between your text.

6. Switch back out of HTML by clicking the Visual tab. This will give you a preview of where the widget will appear in text once it’s published, and you can continue editing the rest of the post.

7. Publish!

 

I know some things sometimes

 

rut

Update on some thoughts post-tutorial, which is post-post-lecture.

Whilst I enjoy the lecture-that-is-not on a Tuesday afternoon, I’m beginning to sympathise with my classmates (which is a tale in itself); it does seem a little “stuck”. The last three weeks have covered why we should attend. I’d like a few more exhibits of the why part. Give us the in-lecture debates and discussions, let us bring the symposium to life as it was said to become.

For a learning curve on fast-moving networks and constantly changing media, it seems less “double-loop” revolutionary and more like a broken record-player.

mog out

Scars v Tattoos

A brief word – This is not meant to cause offence in any way, shape or form.

 

Now I can get away scot-free with being rude and intolerant.

So my year level is divided in opinions on this subject. Some love the lack of boundaries we have, myself included. As Adrian voiced today, some are grasping desperately for non-existent scaffolding. I know that he was in favour of accepting their ways but-

“What’s the point in us going to a class on blogging when we can just do it by ourself?”

Just because you can manipulate clay into a pot or bowl, does not mean you shouldn’t take pottery classes. Or visit a gallery of local sculptors. Also-

“I don’t think he can force us to be creative.”

He’s not. Note: you can blog whatever you like. This is an unlecture. We are inventing this as we go.
Force implies boundaries, restriction. I’d say there’s a lot less of that than in other courses.

“There’s no use in doing this.”

Look – if you were a PR student, and you had a subject on Public Address, would you think twice about practising talking to an audience that isn’t necessarily interested in your developing persona? Goodness, it’s as though the dirt track changes to grass and you suddenly are incapable of running along it.

I’d rather a scar to a tattoo.

by mog