Well, I'm still wrestling...

Well, I've learned an awful lot about video this week, in an effort to get my tutorial to work on my website. Still a no go, dang it all. But the process has been terrific because I've learned all kinds of things that I can use in other places. My favorite of the week is compressing AVI files to Mpeg4 format. I'm really glad to know that. And in some cases I'll be able to use a zip file to send a PowerPoint and have the videos travel with it, it just wasn't an application I could use on the website. So I'm still chewing on this because I'd really like to be able to load this tutorial on a school server and make it available for teachers. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

Looking over our classmates websites yesterday was terrific. Some were amazing. Nicole Gunn did an especially great job - professional quality. I know it will be tremendously useful to VSU nursing students. How great is that? John did a great site, too. I'm really impressed with the both of them, and proud of them, too. Top notch work.

10,000,000 ways to not get a ppt to work...

This weeks word is frustration. It is the feeling you get when you cannot get the videos to work in a ppt that you've prepared for a tutorial and loaded onto a website. AAAARRRGH! I feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy kept pulling the football out from under him.

I've tried everything I and the countless other people I have asked can think of, and -no go. I'm at my wits end. I've tried saving it as a slide show, packaging it as a CD and trying to load it that way (can't load a folder), burning it to a CD (doesn't pick up the slides and puts the videos in the wrong order), a zip file. I'm about to tear my hair out. I'll keep at it...