To submit your videos, you were supposed to upload it to YouTube and then use the embed code to add it to our Telling Brooklyn Stories map. To complete Essay 5, you had to submit your 300-word piece as a blog post, and that you choose the category “Brooklyn Tour” so we can look at all the tour posts together. To make sure that both your video and your 300-word piece come together on our map, we ask that you add the URL of your blog post in the Google Map space where you’ve added your video–and even better if you use a URL shortener to make it look more appealing.
To complete the map portion of the assignment, accept my invitation to collaborate on the map. Then when you’re looking at the map, click Edit. You can add a pushpin as we showed in class, choose the HTML option for adding material to the window, paste in the embed code for the video, and then paste in the URL for your blog post. To make it look good, you can use a URL-shortening site, such as goo.gl or bit.ly or tinyurl.com, so you don’t have a long URL.
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