I am yet to love technology. I almost threw my laptop through a window the other day when I was trying to upload the video for EDN113 Assignment 3a, but first let's talk about creating the video and wiki.

I didn't have much trouble using Wikispaces but I wouldn't rave about the technology either. There wasn't anything wrong with it; I just think there is something better out there. I know that Kelly and Larra had a little trouble logging into Wikispaces and sometimes even uploading things. The formatting would also change unexpectedly, so that was annoying.

The video proved somewhat difficult. First we had to download Jing and figure out how it works. It took us a while to coordinate the music, the speaking in turns and moving the mouse around the screen (to show both what was on our wiki and flick between the different pages of our wiki). Second, we had to actually 'film' (for want of a better word) our video in one take, without laughing at the music or Larra's introduction and conclusion. Finally we had to upload the Jing video onto our wiki page. Easy, right? Wrong. The file was too large to embed straight onto our wiki home page, so began the 24 task of problem solving.

While I went to another university class Kelly and Larra played around with the video, trying to find a solution. Later that night I got a text from Larra asking if I could try, since we had copied the video to my USB. Having other assignments to do meant that I couldn't do anything until the next day. I tried to upload the file onto YouTube but it was in the wrong format. I then found out (by watching another YouTube video) that I needed to download a file converter that could change out SWF video to a MPEG video. The first one I downloaded didn't want to open the file so I downloaded another one called iWisoft. I only took 10 minutes to convert the file, including the 5 minutes it takes to play the video. The time consuming part was uploading the video to YouTube. It worked nicely, but because it took two hours I was getting frustrated having to stand by my laptop keeping it 'awake' so that it continued to upload the video. After that is was a matter of embedding the YouTube video onto our Wikispaces page which was relatively easy.

To view our final project please click on the image below.