For this week's assignment, select and use at least one of the three methods of inserting video we discussed in this week's class:
1) adding video to PowerPoint using an embedded player with controls
2) adding a video with controls to a web page
3) adding a video clip in a blog posting (other than the course discussion blog)
Please try to use an educationally-meaningful video clip when completing the assignment and when you have done so, post a comment in which you discuss which of the methods you selected and how it worked.
If you chose to add a video to PowerPoint using an embedded player with controls, please bring both the PowerPoint file and the video file with you to next week's class. If you selected one of the other two methods, please include the link to the web page or blog posting so that it can be viewed by others.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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Hi Everyone,
I've written a short tutorial on adding a shockwave/flash object in Powerpoint. This tutorial discusses adding the control and the macros and buttons necessary to allow the user some control over the object. Here's the address:
http://www.4shared.com/file/83490602/cff5bea4/Putting_a_shockwave_object_in_PPT.html
The tutorial was created word as a visual walkthrough. Hope you like it.
Thanks-this is very helpful. I am hoping it will work in Office/Powerpoint XP or 2003, since those are the versions I am running.
Hi Y'all. When reviewing my notes I saw I was supposed to check out “TeacherTube” and took a quick tour. They have their own downloader with a menu offering URL copy for email or link, and an embeddable TeacherTube player with search capabilities. On TeacherTube I found a video of how to measure light speed using a chocolate bar and a microwave oven. It was made by Mike McCauley at Tigard Oregon’s Twality Middle School. Also found a “don’t let this happen to you” lesson on making PowerPoint presentations that was rather funny—education with a laugh. The TeacherTube converter would not let me download it. In the process I received an error message the video may be protected or server not available. Hmmm. Will try again later when exploring the site more.
Moving on… Opened up PowerPoint and made a short presentation with embedded videos. Since it had been four days since Wednesday night’s class I stumbled around a bit trying to add the developer menu into the ribbon at the top of PowerPoint on my home computer. I got it done but learned not to wait so long after a computer class to repeat what was taught. Luckily I found in my notes, “. . . powerpoint options, popular, show developer. . . ,“ and that got me on the right track to inserting the Windows media player.
I am dissatisfied with the size of the image of the videos in my presentation. I adjusted the numbers under the “properties” of the embedded video, but changing them changed the size of player rather than the image it played. I will return to it and try to adjust the image size, but for now the basic moves of embedding a video into a PowerPoint are complete and I have an example for class.
From class notes two weeks ago was a question on the name of the verification image when registering online. Wikipedia tells me the name is “Capcha” which is “. . . a contrived acronym for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.’’ It is also described as challenge-response test and a reverse Turing test. Doncha just love the Twenty-first century? Bruce
I decided to take advantage of this new found knowledge and redo video for a PowerPoint that I made last semester. When it was first created, I embedded the video from YouTube, only to find that even though I quadruple checked the play-ability of it at home, it failed to work on the instructor computer that I had to use to present on campus. Luckily I had 5 minutes and was able to redo the embedded file on that particular computer and it worked beautifully in time for my presentation.
For this assignment, I converted the original YouTube video with Media Converter and saved it on my server space. Then I took the same Photo Manipulation PowerPoint and inserted a Windows Media Player, which I then specified for my newly converted video. It was a little tricky figuring out how to change the auto start, but a Google search later and I had my answer (with the player selected, open Properties, click Custom, click the drop-down button which opens up Windows Media Player Properties, and deselect “auto start” in the Playback Options). I am disappointed in the small size of the video and the occasional pixilation of the moving image, but overall it is better to deal with those factors than a video that won’t play at all. Plus some school districts block YouTube content, which makes the original embedded video unplayable all together.
I was able to successfully add the YouTube video to my new Blogger blog at http://video-lrschmidt.blogspot.com/. However, I was somewhat disappointed at the quality of video.
I had not previously embedded a video in a PowerPoint, so I am still learning the steps to make the controls show properly. I plan to also practice embedding the video in a Dreamweaver webpage this evening before class.
I chose to add a video to my test blog. To give you some insight of the blog, I had intended to use this blog to communicate with parents of my students and to post pictures and videos of the children during classroom activities and special events as well as posting any additional student work that I felt was appropriate. It was originally set up so that only people that were invited by myself would be able to view the blog. The district did not approve this, however, so I have just kept the blog for testing purposes and in hopes that eventually the district will allow us to use blogs. (They only wanted me to use what they could control-our limiting classroom webpages and e-mail.) So, I uploaded the "Did You Know?" video that I made a copy of last week that I would potentially add to a class website for parents to understand the importance and ever-changing status of technology. I found this method to be relatively easy though it did take a while to upload to the blog. I simply had to browse for and select my video file, name the video, and agree to Blogger's term. It automatically added player controls. My only complaint was that I was not able to (or could not find the option to) set the size of the video. However, I feel that for its purpose this size was appropriate. However, it's possible that I would want to have the option for parents to view a video in a larger size such as a claymation video that several Kindergarten students created last year.
My video can be found at http://msposterickam08.blogspot.com/2009/01/test-video.html
Hello all,
I did similar to everyone else. I converted a file form YouTube using Zamzar (convert large files, couldn't get large files to convert using mediaconvert). I uploaded the file to a blog that I use with no problems. Hopefully, we can watch some of ours tonight, and I will share it with everyone. I will attempt to link a video file to a powerpoint and let you all know if I have any problems.
As I suggested earlier, I did successfully add video to a Power Point using Windows Media Player and a blog, but I could not get the video to show up in Dreamweaver. I converted the file to a Flash (.flv) file through Media Converter, but the program did not recognize it. Should I convert the file directly from the YouTube source to Flash format?
Here is the link to the file I uploaded to a blog:
http://video.xanga.com/trusaint9
Xanga offers compartmentalization tools or the option to insert videos into the weblog. Here is a link to the simple insertion into the weblog:
http://www.xanga.com/trusaint9
I was succesful inserting several videos both with and without the control window. When I moved the Powerpoint to a new computer, the videos that had the windows, had to have their URLs changed in order to properly link the videos. Once I discovered this was the problem they worked well. GHary Kitmacher
Hello everyone,
I found a clip of Marjane Satrapi giving an interview on IFC on her family influences. I posted the link on my blog:
http://zainab-myblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/assignment-2.html
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