I am on here for three reasons. First I want to talk about my experience using the Voicethread to create my presentation for Joel. In my opinion, I spent too much time creating the presentation in another program (Powerpoint) and not enough time creating in Voicethread. I will try and learn from this mistake next time. This is what I will do differently 1) keep text and background simple 2)add my hyperlinks after presentation is uploaded to Voicethread 3) Add my graphics to Voicethread not PPT.
I am excited to try another Voicethread and see if it is less stressful and easier. I can't imagine it won't be! I hate to admit how many hours I worked on that first presentation. I do have to say I am glad it is done!
Reason number two for the blog, I need to keep using this tool or I am bound to get busy and forget! (Plus it will satisfy Kristin's blog requirement. :)
Three, I need help. Can anyone give me a refresher course on how to upload my Voicethread to my blog? I got my podcast uploaded and thought I could do the same with the Voicethread. It is not always working. I've tried a couple of different ways. My Voicethread appears on my blog page but sometime it says the link is inaccessible. Any suggestions? I will eagerly await a response! :)
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ReplyDeleteHi Micki! VoiceThread will embed your project directly into a Blogger/blogspot post. Just follow these steps:
ReplyDelete1) Go to your MyVoice page
2) Click on the Menu (gear) button for the VoiceThread you want to embed, and choose "Edit."
3) At the bottom of the Edit page, click "Embed."
4) Sign in with your blog email address & password, and be sure that the correct blog url is showing in the area at the bottom of the tool.
5) Click "post!"
*If all else fails, copy the html code at the bottom of the embed tool, and paste it into a new post for your blog.*
If the VoiceThread looks cut off on the left in your blog post, try editing the post, and changing the dimensions to: height="300" width="400"
Hope this helps! :-)
You also need to make sure you make the Voice Thread public not private.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your frustrations, Micki. Did you find the second VoiceThread easier to handle? You and I were the first two guinea pigs to tackle VoiceThread. I shared many of the frustrations you had the first time around, but found that it was better the second time around. I still couldn't make multiple links live on my VoiceThread, but the overall process was much more manageable the second time around (though it still took many hours to accomplish).
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