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Two of ANTS sites: LION TV and Screencast.Com provide embedding code for individual screencasts. LION TV also provides for streaming of videos - but it streams all content instead of select content.

If you want to stream a collection of videos from LION TV, YouTube, etc, the a great tool is Embedr which is free, easy to use and it enables you to select what videos to stream as well as the sequence they are streamed in. You can create your own personal account at the site or create the streaming as a guest.

To stream select videos (such as LION TV's CINAHL Tutorials)

1. Go to Embedr (http://embedr.com/ ) and either log in, create an account or use it as a guest.
2. Tell Embedr to Build a Playlist by selecting this Tab on it home page.
3. Go to sites like LION TV and select the embedding code you want (for information on how to do this with LION TV see our Embedding tutorials section.)
4. Enter each clip of embedding code in one box at Embedr (Embedr will provide several boxes but does so one at time - adding a new box each time you tell it to Add a video to your playlist.)
5. Arrange the sequence of the playlist by dragging and dropping each box into the appropriate order
6. Embedr will create a playlist much like this: http://embedr.com/playlist/cinahl-tutorials-list-created-from-animated-tutorial-sharing-project
7. Arrow over its share image on the upper right corner of the screencast. It will give you its:
    1. Embed this Playlist
    2. Link to this Playlist
    3. Post playlist to (various sites such as Facebook)
8. If you want to stream your selected videos to a web page, blog, etc, grab the embedding code beside "Embed this Playlist" and incorpate it into your website. It will stream the videos and include a screenshot of all videos below the player that looks like this: http://www.brandonu.ca/library/embedding/streaming.htm
9. Use the link for linking or the "Post to" code for posting to different sites such as Digg, Del.ic.ious, Facebook, MySpace, Stubleupon and AddThis.

This should work with embedding codes derived from any site that has them and will enable you to select screencasts appropriate to a course, library home page, (etc) so you can provide people with appropriate instructional materials at their point of need.