Movie Maker

Finally... I figured this out! This took a lot of time and effort, but I'm really proud of how it turned out. I found Microsoft Movie Maker on the web and downloaded it. Next, I tried to import my presentation, but it kept telling me it didn't recognize .ppt files. I saw that you could import photos to the movie maker, but I didn't know how to turn my Power Point presentation slides into photos. So I opened up my original presentation and clicked save as. I remembered all of the options we had to choose to save it as when we learned how to save it as a show and web page; so I looked under there to see what I could find. I saw that you could save it as jpeg (which is the same file for pictures), so that is what I did. It created a folder of my Power Point presentation with each slide as a picture inside of that folder. This is good that I have this done, because this will be helpful when I'm creating my photo story on this lesson.

Next, I created all of the title slides, credit slides, and slide transitions. This wasn't very difficult to do. The next hard part was figuring out how to save it as a .wmv file, because it wouldn't upload to Teacher Tube or You Tube when I just saved it as a project. I finally realized under "File" I had to click "Save movie file". This way, it saved on my desktop under "my Videos" as a .wmv file. Now I could upload it to You Tube or Teacher Tube and my ftp site. First, I saved my movie to Teacher Tube, but I couldn't get it to embed in my web page; so I also saved it to You Tube so it would embed in my web page. Like I said, this was very challenging, but I'm so happy I worked through it and accomplished my goal.

Movie- FTP Site

Movie- Web Page
(When you get to the web page, on right hand column under "Recent Activity" click on "Movie Maker" and this will take you to my page in which I embedded my movie from You Tube).