Links+to+Examples

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[|MDMC08 Project Page]- Link to Zoo project wiki with examples of material brought in from others - UTube Movie as well as much original work that was brought into the wiki through widgets.Except for the movie on the appearance page of the huge hippo walking out of the water, all other videos were filmed by the group, uploaded to UTube for encoding, and then the code was embedded into the video widget on the wiki.

Note the audio file, or podcast of the interview with the zoo employee on the home page. Three voices were used and recorded in GarageBand (could have also been Audacity) and uploaded to [|imeem], a host site for audio.[|Podomatic] is another good site for this, or even iTunes on your own computer will work. All produce embed code for you to paste into your audio widgit.

At first glance some of these sights can be overwhelming and filled with stuff you may not ordinarily go searching for, but all you need to do is created the free account and then upload your stuff, get the embed code and exit.

There are other ways this can be done, but this is all free and easy.

A product of one final site that is also fun and free can be witnessed on the reflections page of the MDMC page. We were instructed to use [|gcast] to phone in our thoughts each day of the conference. This is a very simple podcast. You go to their site and get a free account. You register your phone number and call in your audio. simply talk over the phone. Gcast gives you a code to embed on your wiki page throught the audio widget, and after pasting the code there, you can listen to it. The phone message walks you through what to do and it is very similar to using a voice mail system - even a number three to delete!