Week 4.6 Webinar today Thursday 14 August at 3:15pm (GMT+2)

Hello there! I do hope you are doing well in the course and have got to the place of putting your story thoughts on paper! The biggest problem is finding the inspiration but once you have it just get those thoughts down no matter how jumbled!  Thanks again  for your comments in Facebook and on the course blog. We are having our fourth webinar of the course this afternoon and we hope you can join us. If not, the recording and the presentation will be placed on the course blog s usual. I also hope you received Email 6 on Tuesday this week? If not, I have placed it on the course blog so you can catch up from there.

Background to today's webinar
I don’t think Lorato will be joining us for today's webinar. We have reached another difficult part of the course this week in that although your stories may be written:

• They now need to be transferred to an application that the African Storybook project can use and that most online publishing applications can also use. That is why we have to use a presentation format. The great news is that a presentation format can alo be converted to a video and that is what I’ll be showing next week!
• They also need to be illustrated and not many of us are artists

The webinar will explain these two points and hopefully inspire you to get on with it despite the challenges!


Take a look at last year’s stories for illustration ideasThis may be a good time to invite you to look at the completed stories of last year's course participants which are stored on a wikihttp://africanstorybookproject.wikispaces.com/.

Today’s webinar
Meeting Name: Presenting and illustrating your story
Summary: In this webinar we will look at editing the story you have written, and find ways of adding it to a presentation application that the African Storybook project team can use. We'll also look at different ways of illustrating a story.
Presenters: Fiona Beal
Date: Thursday 14th August at 3:15pm
Start Time: 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Time zone: GMT+2 (Pretoria)
Duration: 30 minutes
To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/presentingastory/

Important information about webinars
A webinar is an online talk, a live event, where you can listen in, ask and answer questions, give ideas or make comments via a chatbox. A webinar usually lasts around 15 - 30 minutes in length. 

Test your device first - must do this
All you really need to do for an Adobe webinar is test your connection before the time if you have never tuned in before, as you might need to add an add-in:
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. Then just click on the link, log in as a guest and write your name.

If you are using a tablet you will need to install the relevant Adobe Connect App. I haven't tried using a tablet for a webinar before so if you have success with this will you let me know?