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Publishing a Calendar Invite to One Event

posted Oct 24, 2013, 9:52 AM by Lucie deLaBruere [ updated Oct 24, 2013, 10:34 AM ]

I just learned that you can publish a Calendar Invite like this.

Click on the link below to add this event to your Google Calendar.

Here is how I did this

Click on PUBLISH

Copy the Embed Code

Paste it in the HTML space of your favorite web tool

Embedding Media (Audio and Video)

posted Apr 14, 2013, 4:04 PM by Lucie deLaBruere [ updated Apr 14, 2013, 4:19 PM ]

In the past I have saved MP3 to Drive, shared and embed with a gadget (by URL) from http://prac-gadget.googlecode.com/files/google-audio.xml

Simple and clean, and it appears to still work. Process for using it is described here.

From Eric Hall

Google Gmail Audio Player

The gadget spec URL could not be found

| Attachments: yankeedoodle.mp3

Soundcloud and AudioBoo

posted Mar 28, 2013, 12:47 AM by Lucie deLaBruere

Both SoundCloud and Audio Boo make it easy to capture from a mobile device.

One of the things I like about SoundCloud is that it does have privacy settings, while I have not found those on Audio Boo yet.

AudioBoo only lets you upload 3 minutes of audio at a time.

Like many Web 2.0 tools, the terms of service make this less of an option for kids under 13 to have their own accounts. But teacher's have set up and supervised classroom accounts. I have worked with teachers who have a station or mobiel device available for students to add to Audio Boo

Here is an example of what a SoundCloud file looks like embedded in Google Site
(music I recorded with my phone at a concert - arranged by one of my musical son's ;-)

One of my favorite AudioBoo of all times is this clip that Wes Fryer used to capture a just in time reflection

Embedding Audio in Google Site

posted Mar 27, 2013, 5:10 PM by Lucie deLaBruere [ updated Mar 27, 2013, 6:09 PM ]

Embed Audio

What happend to Google Audio Player Gadget? ;-(

I've been playing with different methods to embed Audio (mp3) into a Google Site since the disappearance of the Google Audio Player Gadget.

I've discovered a Gadget which seem to work in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome (as of today 3/27/2013)

This seems to work with mp3's you attach as a file at the bottom of this page.

I did not seem to work with mp3's hosted online elsewhere.

Embed Music

The gadget spec URL could not be found

1. Attach your mp3 file at the bottom of your Google Site Page.

2. Right click on the Download Arrow of your MP3 file

3. Copy Link Address

4. Edit Page

5. Insert Gadget

6. Look for EMBED MUSIC Gadget

7. PASTE the Copied Link Address to your MP3 in the Properties of the Gadget

8. Set other options as desired

9. Save changes to the Gadget

10. Save the Google Site Page

The link Address to my mp3 below looks like this (note it does not end in mp3, but it is an mp3 file)

https://sites.google.com/site/gtfsvt/tips-and-tricks/embeddingaudioingooglesite/Come-and-play.mp3?attredirects=0&d=1

| Attachments: Come-and-play.mp3