Task 06 grades are completed

I have finished looking at all the task 06 presentations for the 1230 session and have uploaded the finished gradesheets.  I have also just put the grades into Connect Carolina.

I wish I had the time to do a more personalized commentary on everyone's presentation, but that is not the case. If anyone is curious, I would be happy to go over your presentation with you in detail and offer some thoughts about various components. But this won't happen until January 2012.

Be safe over the break and have a wonderful holiday season.

Task 06 grades

I have finished the task 06 grades for the 0800 session. Your final grades have been turned into Connect Carolina and your gradesheets are in the normal places.

I will be working this weekend to grade the 0930 and 1230 sessions and will be back with a commentary on all presentations after I am done.

Information Overload

Hi Everyone,
I thought this was in interesting article from the New York Times discussing whether electronics and gadgets evolve too fast for us to keep up.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/are-we-suffering-global-gadget-fatigue/
Also, here is the link to the story I shared about Facebook, email, and spamming. I just realized I forgot to post it.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/16/tech/social-media/facebook-hacking-security/index.html?iref=allsearch

Amanda

presentations

FYI ... I am currently not in possession of three final presentations. If I haven't sent you a confirmation email and you don't have a link to the presentation on your web site, I don't have it.

Task 05 grades have been posted

You may retrieve your gradesheets to see your task 05 grades. I will be going back through my email to catch up on anything you asked me to take a second glance at. If you want me to re-look something, be sure I know to do it.

Issues with Mac vs. Windows Powerpoint

To my fellow Mac users (and actually anyone who is having issues with video in their presentations):

I wanted to incorporate a video clip in my presentation. The Mac version of PowerPoint (2011) doesn't have the "Package for CD" option, but after searching online, I found that many people stated that the option wasn't necessary with this version of the software because it did it automatically. I thought my problems were over. My video clip worked beautifully on my computer, but as soon as I tried to play my recorded presentation on a PC, the video clip refused to play. However, the audio was still in the clip when I selected and played it.

So....the short story is, you need a converter to convert your clip to something with PC friendly codecs. I used a free program called Free Convert YouTube FLV to AVI, WMV, etc. This converter doesn't just convert YouTube videos, it will convert files you already have on your computer. I converted mine to WMV and it works on both my Mac and PCs. If only PCs were as smart as Macs....

I inserted the converted video into my presentation and re-recorded the slide (which you should do by copying the needed slide into a new presentation, recording, and then copying that slide into your original presentation. Don't try to re-record just one slide!! It will end badly.). Then I got onto a PC and did "Package for PC" just in case. If you do not have video clips in your Mac made presentation, you don't have to, but I did just in case. Good luck!

Crediting images in a presentation

Question:

I have a question concerning proper citation on pictures and sources on powerpoint. I would like to know the best practices in general as no one seems to place full citations in the slides themselves.

Response:
The norm I usually recommend is this:

• If it is important to show the viewer the source of the image, put it on the screen
• If it is not important to show the source, put the source in the slide notes pane
• If you think you might want to show the viewer the source in the course of your presentation, hyperlink the image object to the source so you can pull it us as needed.