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Saving – troubleshootingespecially for multimodal presentations Clicking the save icon shown abovemay not be enough to save your work so it is ready for a presentation, especially if it contains sound, video etc . See the hints below. 1. Do not save assessment files to your netbook only. Emailing a copy to yourself is a good strategy. Or save to a USB, or H drive. 2. Save work regularly. 3. When opening school email attachments, make sure you save them to a permanent location, like your H drive, before working on them. Otherwise, email attachments will open in a temporary folder and work on these files may be lost, even though you have clicked the save icon, because they are in a TEMPORARY folder. 4. Photo Story As seen in the image, Photo Story Lets you either a) Save Projectyou can keep editing or b) Finish the storySave your story for playback on your computer. If students click Save Project, their story will only work on the computer they created it on. If the file is wp3, as shown in the next image, it is a project file. It needs to be saved as wmv by choosing “Save your story for playback on your computer” for a presentation that can be copied/saved that will work on other computers. The reason the sound or images fails to work in a presentation, is usually because it is still a project file.

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Page 1: Multimedia presentations troubleshooting

Saving – troubleshooting‐especially for multi‐modal presentations 

Clicking the save icon ‐ shown above‐ may not be enough to save your work so it is ready for a presentation, especially if it contains sound, video etc . See the hints below.  1. Do not save assessment files to your netbook only. Emailing a copy to yourself is a 

good strategy. Or save to a USB, or H drive. 2. Save work regularly.  3. When opening school email attachments, make sure you save them to a permanent 

location, like your H drive, before working on them. Otherwise, email attachments will open in a temporary folder and work on these files may be lost, even though you have clicked the save icon, because they are in a TEMPORARY folder. 

4. Photo Story  As seen in the image, Photo Story Lets you either  a) Save Project‐ you can keep editing or b) Finish the story‐ Save your story for playback on your computer. 

  If students click Save Project, their story will only work on the computer they created it on. If the file is wp3, as shown in the next image, it is a project file. It needs to be saved as wmv by choosing “Save your story for playback on your computer” for a presentation that can be copied/saved that will work on other computers. The reason the sound or 

images fails to work in a presentation, is usually because it is still a project file. 

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5. Moviemaker  Moviemaker can be saved as  

a) A project file‐ you can keep working on it‐but it won’t play on other computers b) Finish it, by going to step 3 as shown in the in the image   

It is still a project file if it has the reel icon and the extension is MSWMM . Clicking the save icon, saves it as a project file. Students must complete Step 3 on the left menu and Finish Movie to avoid problems like the red crosses and sound not playing in their presentation. A finished wmv file icon can be seen above.  

6. PowerPoint  ‐ Read these instructions to save sound and media, so it works  http://tinyurl.com/yacaytj 

 

7. Audacity – file needs to be exported as WAV to save ‐ see Potter Library Moodle site under Instructions in the Resources section.   

 

8. File extensions – if these are hidden‐ ie. you cannot see if it is wav or wmv file, in Windows XP, open up Windows Explorer by right‐clicking on the Start button. Then, left‐click on Explore.  Click on Tools, Folder Options, View. Then, uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types. 

 See these and other instructions on the Potter Library site, in the Resources section, in the    

Instructions folder.