Tutorial

====Authorstream.com is a web-site for hosting and transferring PowerPoint (PPT) presentations. The site claims to be the “best” PPT sharing platform available that offers many features. It allows users to not only create PPT presentations online, it also is a collaborative environment that allows for asynchronous conversations of users and people they invite to their presentations. Furthermore, it features other applications like sharing, reviewing, broadcasting, creating multiple channels, and most importantly for this workshop, conversion of PPT presentations to video. All in all, it is a necessary hosting and storage site for PPT presentations which converts them to the proper language for broadcast via the Internet. Some may wonder why it is necessary to transfer a PPT to a video format code. Have you ever tried to access one of your PPT presentations anywhere else besides your home or laptop computers? Mobile devices are becoming more and more popular as a tool for speakers to use for practicing their presentations. With a PPT transferred to the Flash format or video and added to a hosting site like YouTube, creators can randomly access their PPT creations anytime and anywhere. This is certainly a convenient feature for the traveling presenter and really for anybody who deems it necessary to have this random access. The next question is this; have you ever tried to edit together PPT slides with videos that you have recorded? With the Authorstream conversion application to a MP4 video format, creators can edit together PPT and video into a seamless presentation for viewing. This creates formidable opportunities for creators to combine all of their creative elements into their presentations in a cost effective, most professional look-and-feel manner.====

====**1)** If you have not done this already, please go the Authorstream web-site and create a free account @ []. If you already have a Username and Password, please enter it to get started. If you are creating a new account, hit the “SignUp for Authorstream” link at the bottom to enter your necessary information. (Log-In Screencast).==== ====**2)** For those of you that are new to Authorstream, please take the time to fill out the necessary information on the screen @ []. Here the site asks for the basics for your personal account. A user has the opportunity to login with their personal Facebook account if they so choose or they can enter the information themselves. For this tutorial, we will take it for granted that no one has a Facebook account and will enter the necessary information directly. Later, you can swap to integrate Facebook if you deem it to be necessary. This is where you will create your familiar Username and Password. After all of the information is submitted, you are ready to begin using Authorstream. (Register Screencast)====

====**3)** Now that you are logged-in, you will be directed to the Home screen that delivers navigation links at the far left of the page. This is your control page for the Authorstream site. Go to the navigation column and click on “My Presentations” to take you to the storage page for your PPT uploads. If you have yet to upload a PPT presentation, do so now by hitting the upload button at the top of the page, find your preferred file of your computer, select it, and upload it. This should not take long and it will forever be stored on this page, or at least until you delete it. As you can see, I only have the one presentation. This is the page you want to be on to convert the PPT presentation to the video modality. Near the bottom of your selected presentation, you will see where it says “Video”. Click on that and a drop window will appear that says “convert to video” then click on that. Depending on the size of the PPT file, the video conversion can take a considerable amount of time of up to 100 minutes. After this has been completed, you are now ready to do what you want with the PPT in its new format.==== ====**4)** After the PPT has been converted to a video format, this is the page you want to be on to apply your creation to the purpose. Here you have the opportunities to share, present live, add to channel, send to YouTube, or replace you PPT. This has been a tutorial for you to get started in the workshop. Now let’s get started. Good luck, but I really do not think you will need it.====