Presentation space

Pros

Cons

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