Rockyou lets you create interesting slideshows to include in blogs. It seems to be safe enough but avoid saving your pictures (especially if they are of children) on sites which then take ownership of your pictures. It works with edublogs and other Wordpress driven blogs.
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I came across this on Will Richardson’s blog. Picnik is an online photo editing program which does many of the basic tasksquickly and easily. For everyday jobs like cropping and resizing it’s a great tool and, when I tried it, took no more time than it would have taken to load up a graphics program. Well worth trying.

I started with a 64Mb mpg file and loaded intoPinnacle Studio 9. From there I exported it as a wmv with a custom setting of ISDN 128Kbs which created a 3.6Mb file. I then used the site at http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php to generate the html code to embed the video.

The quality is acceptable and could be better if I chose to encode with a larger file size. As it is, 3.6Mb for over 5 minutes isn’t bad.
There are probably many simpler ways to do this (feel free to let me know) but this worked for me.