1) I had a blog set up from a previous class so I just had to go back in and play around with it for a while. That was the best part of my day.
2) Downloading the youtube video was pretty easy, I had done that a couple of times with moodle. I downloaded the YTD as recommended but don't think I actually ended up using it. I kept 'googleing" dumb questions and one of the tutorials got me to Format factory which is way over my head and a little tricky to use but can do a bunch of good stuff. This is the program that allowed me to actually convert the video from youtube.
3) Next step was to put the converted video into the blog. After watching a youtube tutorial I decided to try Keep Vid, it seemed like an easy way to pull video's off the net in general, and it was. Really easy to use and I think this is actually the software that I used to actually put the clip in the blog. I simply right clicked on the video in Keep Vid and it gave me the embed code option (already highlighted/copied) and I just had to hit the HTML tab in blogger and drop in the embed code.
4) Putting the video into a PowerPoint presentation, I actually used Format factory and just looked up what PPT used, WMV, good to know and then just inserted it like an image. I found that using the play automatically tab worked best for me.
5) Here's where it went south...I decided it would be cool to put the whole PPT into the blog. So, several youtube tutorials later, I thought I had the solution, Slide Share Again very simple to use but when I went to view my blog, the embedded video would not play. This led to several failed attempts, learning about slowing hardware acceleration and the realization (much later) that this step was completely unnecessary and well out of my current ability to pull off.
Long day, but I learned a great deal just by digging around in my computer and trying different things. Also got three decent downloads and Slide Share answered a question that I remember vexing me a few classes ago. So all in all, a productive day too.
