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).

Embedded Google Documents Presentation

This was a little tricky just like the Google Docs Presentation was. First, I had a hard time finding the tool under Google to make a website. Then, I remembered Dr. Pierce said Google changed from Google Web Pages to Google Sites. So I went under this and created a web site. I created a page and decided to edit it. When I got there, I saw that you could edit HTML; so I decided to go under there and paste in the html for the google docs presentation (just like I did in my last post here on my blog). I saw that it worked and when I clicked "save" it would disappear. So I tried it again and again and again....every time it didn't work. Then, I looked up and saw a toolbar. On it I saw "insert". I explored that and saw that I could insert a presentation from my Google Docs straight to the web page. Guess what!? It worked...finally! Here is the address for my page:

Web Page

Google Docs Presentation

Well this was definitly challenging. As soon as I uploaded my presentation to Google Docs, I decided to view it as a show. I noticed that my links were not working... the links that linked slides to slides not the html links. So I had to go back to my original presentation and save as under another name. I opened it up and removed all of the links that linked the slides together such as: my interactive table of contents and the back to table of contents links. I decided it wasn't important to be interacting between slides online... as long as the information is there then it conveys my message. I uploaded the new presentation without the interactive links. I checked it again the show, and my links worked for the online websites. Everything finally flowed together flawlessly, so I was very happy. I published it, but the link it gave me didn't really work. When I typed it in another internet window, it came up with the presentation in the google docs site... it didn't come up just as the presentation alone. So I am putting in a mini presentation module on my blog for everyone to see.