Learning Unit #11

This learning unit consists of image manipulation in the form of creating slide shows and sharing them with wider audiences for the purpose of professional presentations. Also, the addition of voice to presentations through recorded sound files or by creating sound through a text to speech conversion software.

Task #1

Use two websites to pick one panoramic view. Post them on wordpress and stumble upon sites. The sites are:

http://www.virtualparks.org/

http://www.panoramas.dk/

The two views from these sites are:

http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZuIxKLM56woDC6XqN3i-k3w.html

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen7/f44-Krakow-all-saints-day.html

Task #2

Create a slide presentation using MS Power Point about “Social Bookmarking”. Sign up at http://www.slideshare.net and upload the presentation. The presentation is located on:

http://www.slideshare.net/dhazimihalis/social-bookmarking-358870/

The upload took some time. I do not like the fact that the animations would not upload on this site.

Task #3

The Slideshare web site allows to create Slidecasts. Create a slide cast of the presentation in Task #2 with sound.

The slidecast did not work so I used the Articulate trial program that was suggested to complete and publish this assignment. I used Power Point 2007 to create my presentation and saved it as a 1997-2003 document. The Articulate tutorial was very helpful and easy to use. I followed the instructions to prepare a presentation and added sound to the presentation. Then I published the presentation to my computer. I then had to upload files onto my freewebs site as was suggested on the ning site for this learning unit. This was difficult because I had to upload all of the files as a single file upload which took some time. Once I was finished I added a new page to my personal site and linked the presentation. The presentation is located at:

http://djhazimihalis.webs.com/Social%20Bookmarking/player.html

This learning unit was very helpful with learning how to effectively use and publish PowerPoint presentations. I am working on a research paper on Corrosion Engineering and this will no doubt assist me with that presentation.