Final project

I am probably most proud of this project out of all of the ones i have done this semester, because it was on a topic i am passionate about, and i think it's cool that it is so personal with our own voice and choices in music, images, topic etc.

Using soundslides was a great learning experience, that i have actually already used for another project instead of powerpoint. (my teacher was really impressed). I really did not have many challenges with the program itself because it is so straight forward and does not have too many options, just basically all the right options.

The first challenge i face was my dialogue. At first i faded in an MGMT track for about a minute, talked for about 40 seconds, then faded the MGMT track back in for about a minute. After comparing my presentation with the other students, thinking i was done, i realized i needed more of my own voice in the presentation, and that it needed to be more personal, so i went back and re-did my dialogue, and re-recorded and pieced together the song and voice track. (I also learned after that i could only use 30 seconds of a song bite at a time or its copyright infringement!)

I kept some of the same images, but used more personal images to tell the story that matched my dialogue. I was really happy with the music i chose because it goes deeper than what it really is. It gets you exited-- the way that fashion makes me feel. And i thought that deep factor of the music was really personal to my presentation.

I enjoyed using the ins and outs of audacity. I think if you really use it to its full potential, it can be an amazing tool to pair with presentations, whether powerpoint or soundslides.

Now, for the biggest challenge.. i am event scared editing my blog post.. UPLOADING THE STUPID THING! I googled how to upload soundslides a million times after trying to use webng. Firefox was confusing and frusterating, i just couldn't deal with it any longer. After trying multiple things, i decided to take a break, sit back, and calmly go back to webng. After playing around with it for over an hour, reading the directions a million times, zipping and unzipping and zipping and unzipping, it FINALLY created the link that WORKED!

I was really exited that i was able to upload it to my blog finally. Their were some technical difficulties, and sometimes the presentations cuts off half of the images, but i am assuming thats a technical glitch that i can not control within webng.

Overall, i enjoyed this final project and am very proud of it!