Yes, you can upload from a computer. Yes, you can embed from Youtube. But you can't upload a video from your iPad or Google Drive.
This is a problem for my CBL blogging kids. One work around we are looking at is emailing it as a comment. This posting is a test of that... so let's see. [There were several tries before anything happened here... and a hard furrowed brow]
[UPDATE: I tried using the Mobile settings to email the post to oneself from camera roll and iMovie and I kept finding that the files were rejected for exceeding the file size. Tried it from the Mail app, GMail app, emailing straight from iMovie with a file size of Medium (360MB), emailing from camera roll... NOTHING. I finally downloaded the video file to computer's hard drive and uploaded it from there and yet, it was still not working smoothly. It uploaded but was caught in the loading/buffering for what seemed like an eternity.
I know you're probably thinking, "Why not just upload it to Youtube?" Well, there were some issues that we encountered last year that resulted in students having their videos/accounts removed or suspended, respectively. We were hoping to avoid that this year and our Ed Tech Specialist saw what she thought would be the solution at a conference over the summer. But alas, it seems as though Youtube is the way to go.
I will now recede in defeat.... Blogger... please fix this. It is such a headache for those of us with iPads.
Have you figured out a better way of doing this? How do you get your kids to upload videos to Blogger?
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