Using video

You can USE youtube videos by embedding them into your blog ... ideally you should ADD some REASON for the video ... perhaps a descriptive text, maybe even some questions so that people have to watch the video and provide answers in the COMMENTS

You can also become a youtube MEMBER and upload your own videos ...

You might want to EDIT your video first:

You can do this online by joining JUMPCUT: http://www.jumpcut.com/

Windows Movie Maker is also a possibility - this is a free editing program which you can get from here

NOTE: Video files are usually large because they contain a lot of information - they can take a long time to upload ... sometimes it is actually much quicker to make a youtube account to upload and convert your video and then EMBED in your blog!

NOTE: If you are EDITING a video, it can take a long time to RENDER (prepare)