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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Trying again: Jing Screencast YAY--SUCCESS!!

OK, got it now.

This was my Google tutorial:  How to Use Google docs.
If the screen looks black, click on it anyway and it will play.

What I did:   Finally.  I completed this project in June (SEE THAT POST), but could not get it to embed.  As noted previously, I am better with HTML code now, so I tried  it again.  On Screencaster, I copied the embed code and posted it on my blogger.  It was black.  Also very large.  I did some troubleshooting. First I worked on getting the video to show. At the very end of the very long embed code, I saw "Can not display. Need Adobe Flash Player." I had made several attempts to download this before.  I went to Adobe's site and finally got that app to download.  Then I copied and pasted the embed code again.  Still black.  Then I saw that "Can not display message" was still there even though I had installed Adobe.  I deleted that last part of the code and guess what-- it finally showed on the page!  But still was really large, and needed to be resized.  I went back to the dashboard, to edit HTML.  I played around with some numbers for height and width and finally got it to fit in the post.  It does play.  Life is good.

What I Learned: I put my knowledge to good use.  This was knowledge I did not have last month, so I had to leave the project.  It was still time-consuming to post that Jing video (about another 1 1/2 hr.), but I had more idea what to do (with the code etc.) so I wasn't frustrated to the point of tears.

NETS-T: and How It Can Be Used: Refer to previous post 6/16.

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