Trying Out Gdrive Embeds

This is cool and will impact the way we handle portfolios next year. After getting a tweet from @chamada I realized I missed the big picture with GDrive. I had tried to embed a podcast in mp3 format and when I found no embed code I stopped. But his tweet made me look at things again.

 

@urkomasse @zomoco @gbertoia @DavidCollett You can upload video to GDrive and embed from there.

This means that I can embed a large variety of filetypes just by uploading to gdrive and using the embed code for the file.

I have tried a PDF, MOV, svg, and a pages document. To me it looks like you can embed any filetype supported by Google Docs Viewer this will make the artifact collection part of our student portfolios a lot more streamlined.

PDF

MP3
No Embed

Video

svg graphic

pages document embed