MM15 Presenting or publishing your project

MM15-b: Spaces for presenting and publishing

MM15-bConsidering the pros and cons of the spaces available for presenting and publishing multimodal work

If you have a choice about how and where to share your work, you may want to consider the pros and cons of different spaces. See the chart at the bottom of this page.

Once you’ve chosen a specific type of space for creating or hosting your project and then chosen a specific site, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the options that site provides. Your instructor may be able to help. You will probably need answers to at least a few of the following questions:

Do you need an account to work in the space? If so, do you have to pay for the account?
Will your readers/viewers need a password to access your work?
Will your readers/viewers have to set up an account to access your work?
Will your readers/viewers have to download or install any special software to view your work?
How long will your work be available on the site?
Will ads appear in or near your work when it is on the site?

Presentation spaces for multimodal projects

Presentation spaceProsCons

your campus course management space

Password-protected, so only your instructor and perhaps other students in your class can access your work

Typically does not offer building and creation tools—just offers storage space

Usually limited in terms of file size for student projects (so a 10 MB slide show might be fine, but a 100 MB video project might be too big)

video-hosting sites

Allow you to upload and store big files

Allow you to create videos that aren’t software dependent (i.e., users/viewers don’t have to have a specific type of software to see the video)

Usually allow users to post comments and share feedback

Are often advertisement-based, so ads may appear around or even on top of your video

Sometimes generate long and hard-to-remember URLs

web-creation sites

Can make Web site creation and design easy

Are sometimes subscription- or fee-based (you have to pay to use them)

Some are less intuitive than others

web-hosting sites

Allow you to purchase your own URL

Usually provide storage space for many different file types and sizes

Are sometimes subscription- or fee-based (you have to pay to use them)

Can have complicated interfaces, making uploading your content difficult

slide show creation and hosting sites

Allow you to create slide show presentations that aren’t software dependent (i.e., users/viewers don’t have to have a specific type of software to see the presentation)

Can make slide show creation and design easy

Are sometimes subscription- or fee-based (you have to pay to use them)

Some are less intuitive than others