Online+Publishing+with+Suzie

toc =Introduction= Hi there and well done for finding your way here from the main conference site! This is wiki page will our base as we launch off exploring some of the amazing online tools available for online publishing. You will notice that I collected some tutorials from around the web as well as making some of my own about the tools that I am going to showcase. Make sure you visit all the sections in the Table of Contents of this site. I have already written about a lot of these tools on my own wiki which can be accessed at http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com One useful tip when working with Web 2.0 tools is to use the internet browser '[|Firefox]'. I find that it works better with the tools like Blogger and wikis. There is also a useful function in Firefox that when you right click on an image, it lets you 'Copy Image Location'. Then instead of uploading pictures to your wiki and using up your allocated storage space, you can paste the image URL (http address) into the image box and the picture appears in your blog or wiki while actually being hosted on another site.
 * //Note: If you like the title I have used for this wiki page, you can easily make some like this for your own pages using www.cooltext.com This website allows you to choose a style of title and every aspect of it is customisable (text, font, colour etc). The title is then rendered as a picture file (jpeg) and you just right click on it and save it to your computer to use anywhere you want such as wordprocessing, powerpoints, websites etc// ||

=Zentation Intro= (instructions for creating a similar presentation are below) media type="custom" key="63192"

Notice that the two tools used to create this Zentation presentation where Google Video and SlideShare. I'm now going to back up a step and talk about each of these tools and possible uses for them before then explaining how to combine them using Zentation. I am going to use a piece of software for Macs that I have purchased called [|iShowU] which captures 'Screen casts' (movies of what is happening on your screen with your voice recorded as you explain what is happening)

=Video=

YouTube is pretty well known as a place to upload and share videos. Teachers may recall stories about children secretly filming teachers and posting it to the web. However, there are also very positive educational uses for these tools and situations like the one above should not stop the majority of sensible users from making the most of the tools. I believe in educating children on the consequences and morality of their actions rather than locking down useful elements of the web. For an educational project, I would be more likely to use Google Video as you are able to set privacy levels on who can access it AND can still embed a 'private' video into a wiki or blog. This means your target audience can still view it but the video is not available to the general public through Google Video. YouTube now allows you to set access levels but you have to make a video public to embed it which may open your video up to a larger audience than you would want (especially with the types of comments some people leave on the videos in YouTube). For this reason, I will only focus on Google Video in this session. If you want more information about YouTube and another online application called 'JumpCut' that actually lets you edit the clips of your videos online, then visit my wiki page: http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/Video+sharing

[|Google Video]
You will need a Google account to be able to load movies to Google Video. If you need to do this, the movie on the following site shows you step by step how to do this. It also goes into how to set up Google Analytics (a very comprehensive site counter) which you may or may not want to continue watching. http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=627011337

Watch the movies below (mine is hosted on Google Video), that shows how I create a movie of myself talking to the camera (using my built in iSight and iMovie but PC users could use an actual camera and edit it in MovieMaker). I was going to carry on making a video of how to upload to Google Video but someone else had already done such a good job of it that I figured that I was better off using their video that I found on [|Video.About.com]. The [|Google Video Uploader Software] that is mentioned is used if your movie is over 100MBs. I often leave a file uploading overnight as it does take awhile.

To find out how to upload your movies to Google Video, follow this link to an instructional video (I would have embedded it into this wiki but it auotplays as soon as the page loads so this is not a good idea :-)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271521142/bctid680425158

A Teacher Made Resource
Be prepared for a really irritating, high pitched voice but the content is good - you may want to turn down the volume of your computer! media type="youtube" key="9vXmF5W_Wkc" height="250" width="300"

Video Demonstrating Learning
A not particularly high quality video but obviously made by the children and does show evidence of their learning media type="youtube" key="nxON8dc5g3U" height="250" width="300"

Recording Visits and Events
This is also a teacher resource as well as a record of the interview with the 'bug' expert. media type="youtube" key="M-azMiYq5P0" height="250" width="300"

Videos from Nation Level
Here is a teacher safety video that was originally distributed as a DVD and was made available via Google Video media type="google" key="-227636254277732642&hl=en"

Embedding Videos
All of the above videos have been embedded into this wiki as you are able to get html code from the websites (both YouTube and GoogleVideo) which you then add into your wikis and blogs.

YouTube


To get the code from a YouTube video, copy and paste all of the code in the window next to 'embed'. This information is next to the video.

Google Video
To get the code from Google Video, click on 'Email-Blog-Post to MySpace. Then click on 'Embed HTML' and then copy the code provided.

When you have the code, you need to know how to put that code into your particular wiki or blog. On this wiki, you click on the embed media button and then paste the code into the box that pops up and click save.