Learning Unit 11 – Presentation Editing

Learning Unit 11 proved to be very useful. Prior to this unit, I always wanted to know how to create a presentation and narrate it via adding audio. Starting off this unit, we were asked to view various panoramic views and choose our favorite one from two predetermined websites. My choice was an awesome picture of the Great Wall of China; you can find it on my stumpleupon site: http://c5allen.stumbleupon.com or you can go directly to the site and view it: http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/great-wall.html.

The “meat” of the assignment dealt with creating a power point presentation about Social Bookmarking and posting it to slideshare. My Social Bookmarking presentation on slideshare can be found by the following address: http://www.slideshare.net/c5allen/social-bookmarking-361177/.

We were then asked to create a separate audio file, save as an .mp3, and then use slideshare to edit the presentation by incorporating the audio into it. So I created an audio file using Windows Media Encoder and my microphone. I then translated the audio file into .mp3 format using Windows Audio Converter and uploaded it to the internet at the following address: http://www.archive.org/details/AudioForCallenSocialBookmarkingPresentation. So when I tried editing my presentation in slideshare, I was prompted that this feature has been temporarily disabled due to technical difficulties.

Since I was unable to create my narrated presentation using slideshare, I downloaded a trial version of Articulate and narrated my presentation slide by slide.  After doing so, I published it and uploaded it on my freewebs site on the following address: http://www.freewebs.com/chris5allen/Slide%20Show/player.html.  I really thought using Articulate was very easy, and I liked the idea of narrating slide-by-slide as opposed to creating one sound file for the whole entire presentation.

I also elected to once again use Windows Media Encoder and create a movie of my presentation w/ narrated audio. After doing so, I uploaded my movie to archive.org at the following address: http://www.archive.org/details/SocialBookmarkingPresentation. All you have to do is go the the left side and click on “Windows Media (7.0MB)” and elect to download the movie. Or you can view my presentation on Google Videos at the following address: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6101156164245828493&hl=en. I hope you enjoy my movie presentation on Social Bookmarking.

If you did not want to follow any of the links to my presentation, here it is: