360 views

I just added a section for posting 360 views in the Media Scrapbook. I posted a trial qtvr that works nicely. I will try to get more relevant ones when school is back in session next week. While I do a lot of work in my apartment, I don't think it really qualifies for the project.

Panorama Factory is a memory hog, but I think that goes with any photo processing software. It crashed quite few times on me, but I think that was more due to the lack of ram (512 MB) than anything else.

I found that holding the camera didn't work out so well for me. I ended setting the camera on a box and turning it about 35 degrees to take the pictures. Fortunately, I will soon have access to a small tripod.

Timed output

I did a trial run of the delayed posting and it worked well. I recorded the audio on the 19th and had everything set to display on the 20th. Really this only happened because I said the wrong date in the audio recording, but it all worked out in the end.

Screencast tour

Let me know what you think. The audio gets a little funny in places, but I had recorded it so many times I just let it go.

Adding Audio

I added a section and a couple of catagories for audio clips. A menu sub section was added under the Explore Section called "Daily Check-in" for the potential daily audio update that we would create.

I couldn't get the mp3's to upload into the file that Susan had set-up. I ending up using the Netfiles that we all have available to us through the U as a hosting source and it seemed to work just fine, using the {mp3remote} code. Using the Netfiles might be a better option for hosting the media files as they can cause the space that we have on the Joomla server to shrink pretty fast and if anything happens to the Joomla server our media is safe at the U.

I also moved the Documents section from the Explore Section to the Logistics Section based on the comment that Aaron made in class about the lay-out of the Polar Husky site. I don't know it just seemed to make sense.

Audio/Video Plugin Progress--Hurrah!

I have found an audio/video mambot (AllVideos Plugin) that looks as if it will work for us. I am going to do some experimenting with the following mambot. I installed it and if you are interested in reading the instructions for how to embed streaming videos of many formats, go to Mambots> site mambots and in the list of mambots, click on the "all videos plugin" in the list of mambots. There are extensive instructions on how to utilize the plugin within content. I will set up a video folder for uploading video content files (images/stories/videos) and a folder for uploading audio content files. Pay attention to the file formats for audio and video that this plugin can use. I embedded a YouTube video under Tutorials using this program. Check it out!