Interactive Videos on a WordPress Blog with H5P
In this exercise, you will practice capturing still shots of all or parts of your screen, annotating the screen captures and inserting the resulting image file into a blog post. If you have any questions or get stuck as you work through this, please ask your instructor for assistance.
Before you start making your own interactive video, please watch this excellent example of an H5P video being used to teach a grade 2 science experiment virtually.
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If you haven’t done so already, install the H5P plugin in your WordPress blog, or if you have a UVic student, please create an OpenEd.ca blog for this exercise if you don’t already have one.
- Enable the H5P plugin on your WordPress blog:
- In your blog administration control panel click on the Plugins button, on the left navigation bar, and then scroll down and find the H5P plugin, and press the Activate button.
- In your blog administration control panel click on the Plugins button, on the left navigation bar, and then scroll down and find the H5P plugin, and press the Activate button.
- Navigate to the left side bar and click on the H5P Content button on the left navigation bar and then select the Add New.
- If this is your first time using H5P, click on the blue I consent, give me the Hub! button to enable the H5P features you will need to make your interactive video.
- Next once you have selected Add New, select interactive videos, you’ll need to click on the Get button beside the top item (Interactive video).
. - Press install
- If this is your first time using H5P, click on the blue I consent, give me the Hub! button to enable the H5P features you will need to make your interactive video.
Great Job!
