Posting Large Rich Media Files

After finishing up a project that involved a PowerPoint presentation equipped with still images, transitions and sound, I had a problem with transfering the information to a different group member for their editing.  Although I didn’t believe that the file was very large, it was too large to send over any of my three email accounts, or to post on our course shell.  I tried to zip the file and post it again, but it was still too large.  I lastly resorted to finding some free software to compress the file.  I found software called Pando which seemed to work well, however, whoever was opening the file also needed the software.  Phew – what a hassle!  I noted that other groups in my class approached the problem of file size different ways.  We eventually posted our file to our blogs, but I saw that I was dangerously close to the limit on the blog’s free storage space. 

 I just finished watching a fellow class group’s presentation on “rich media”.  The presentation was very good – in fact, it taught me what rich media is, but I realized that if the trend is to provide rich media resources in our classrooms, we will need faster computers with more storage space and faster internet connections.  I know this is a trend that improves each day, but I find it interesting that these are the very issues that present themselves as the limiting factors into providing more rich media resources.