Mar 27 2007
Teething problems
Yesterday, with my Year 7 class, I tried using a powerpoint which featured short clips of me explaining things. Other than issues refarding behaviour, which meant that they didn’t get the benefit of my explanations, there were two technical issues.
First of all, the format in which I had saved the videos (using Quicktime) did not work on my class PC. Fortunately I had foreseen that there might be a problem with using video for the first time, and I had copied all the videos onto a CD-ROM, and was able to re-attach them to the powerpoint. However, the main issue I then faced was that whilst the audio ran as normal, the video worked in slow motion. Horrible. It looked vaguely obscene, not what I wanted to portray to my Year 7s! Not sure if it’s an issue with PCs in general or just my PC. Met Steve B yesterday, so I’ve told him, and will speak to one of our technicians today. Hope we can get it to work normally!
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