Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem, MFA

Cleaning Up Word Files

• The character codes used in your word documents are not necessarily the same as those used on the web. If you want to use the contents of a word document use the Paste from Word button rather than cutting and pasting directly

• To the left of the Flash icon (white circle with the letter “F” on it) in the post toolbar is a button that looks like paint sample cards (similar to the type you would get from a hardware store) turned sideways.  This button is called “the kitchen sink”
• When you hover over the “kitchen sink button” you will see the message “Open Kitchen Sink.” Click the button until you see a second row on your formatting toolbar.
• Click the button of a clipboard with a Word icon superimposed on it (from the second row).  It is called the “Paste from Word” button.  Click the “Paste from Word” button to paste your content in from your Word document.
• This method should clean up any gobbly gook or weird formatting you may have.

Uploading Office Documents, Images, Audio Files

• 10mb storage space

Linking to Shared Media Websites

• Ghastly Beast (image/Flickr) – www.flickr.com
• Delicious Word Document (document sharing on scribd.com – http://www.scribd.com/
• scribd.com accepts most document file formats, including Microsoft Office (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, pps, xls, xlsx), PDF, Text, and Images (jpg, png, gif, tiff)

If you want to Embed the Image

• select html tab
• type <img src=”paste your image link here” alt=”image description here”>
• What it looks like after you do this

If you want to Embed Audio or Video Files (link to an mp3, mov, Google, YouTube”)

• Use the Yellow Embed a Media File Button
• An anthropological introduction to YouTube (video – YouTube)

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/TPAO-lZ4_hU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

• MP3′s (streamed audio files from the web – The College of Charleston’s Language Resource Center is using stream.cofc.edu to host course audio files for enrolled students.

Listen to Introduction to Con Fantasia

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