Comments on Multimedia Presentation-4Shared

Well, I'd like to say that our Presentation was fun and easy to create but we had many technical problems which caused us to spend hours coming up with a final project.  Our original idea was to use ScreenToaster.com so that we could make a video of us using 4Shared while we were talking.  We could not get the sound to work so we recorded the project with no sound and then recorded our presentation to Tokbox.com with sound.  It is hard to see what we are pointing at but the conversation is good and I think helpful to someone who wants to try 4Share out.  

4Shared has some nice features.  Sharing documents and photos were relatively easy to do.  I posted my Husband's welding projects on my virtual hard drive.  When we first moved to Salem, Steve was applying for lots of jobs and they wanted to see his work.  It would have been helpful to be able to have included a link to 4Shared with his photos downloaded with his resume.  I like the fact that information can  be stored "in space" rather than on a persons hard drive.  The feature that I liked the most was their emailing process.  It was extremely simple to use and I liked the format in which it was sent.  I didn't particularly like the "search engine".  Since files sometimes have numbers or funny names, it's hard to find files on a particular subject like, lesson plans. I also found that I couldn't download half the files I tried - that could be because of VISTA.  The music download also seemed fairly easy.  There was a forum section where I was able to find discussions on particular topics.  That might be fun to look into further.    

 

Below our 4Shared Presentation Post are two Posts in which I used 4Shared.  Please take a look so you can see what 4Shared looks like when you use it.

4Shared Multimedia Presentation

4Shared using a password to view

This site needs a password in order to share.  It's maddie.

Class Puzzle.docx

Using 4Shared to post pictures

I'm sharing my Husband's handiwork from Neets Bay, Alaska. 

Click on the link.

http://www.4shared.com/dir/14184215/a6282a8f/sharing.html

TokBox Presentation

TokBox Presentation Copying Comments

I tried two ways to embed or copy our Presentation to my blog.  The first attempt created a nice picture of the first page of our Presentation but, it also included GoogleDocs which if clicked, lead a path to my email.  I tried to get rid of it and failed.  So, I made this ugly post. What I do like about this ugly post is that when you click on the link, it puts up a large version of our Presentation.  I'm looking forward to hearing about some other ways that I can post on my blog or web page.  I feel posting on the blog and web site from other sites should be a discussion for those of us who have little experience in this area. 

Okay, Okay, I've got it.  I deleted my second ugly post because after some testing, I discovered that the copy/paste procedure did not leave a path open to my gmail.  Michelle checked out the post on my blog from her account and hit Google Docs and it opened up to her gmail.  I tried it from willamette.mat"s account and it opened up to willamette.mat's gmail.  So, through experimenting around with Michelle we discovered that it will open up the web page of whoever is signed in.  Ahh Haaa.   

Learning Curve for TokBox

Well, I've had a lot  of fun learning about tokbox.com.  It is very easy to sign up and mail those video mails.  I invited my parents to tokbox.com and I was able to talk to them while viewing their amazing faces.  It was a blast.  We did have a problem with an echo while we were talking, so you need to wear headphones during the transmission.  My parents and I talked for at least 30 minutes  and we didn't have any trouble during the interaction.  You can create a list of friends that you can dial-up to talk to and you can add as many as 20 people in that conference call. 

I created a video that I wanted to send to my blog and I made an amazing learning mistake.

Instead of sending my pre-made video to my blog, I sent what is called Widget to my blog.  I discovered that people could make a video mail from Widget and send the video mail to whoever they wanted.  This would actually be cool when introducing tokbox to students in the classroom. You could just have them go to the Class Blog and ask them to try out the video mail.  Students wouldn't have register or create their own tokbox account.  This could also be used to have students practice speeches.

     

The other problem I had was sending video mail to my blog.  Barry was very kind and showed me via TeamViewers, how to send my video mail to my blog.  I was trying to embed from the list of items on the left of tokbox screen.  What Barry showed me was that it is done after you press send .  There will be a list of choices on the right of your picture and you press link/embed.

Then you will be given a choice of two lines to copy-copy the last choice and then click to your blog and create a new post.  Click the Edit Html tab and then put your cursor in the blank space and paste.  Then click compose and your video will transfer.  It doesn't necessarily show up until you click View Blog. 

Tokbox.com is fun and easy, even for an old timer like me.