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Sharing Introductions
The Country Study pages of this wiki are private for students to share information with their research teams. This part of the wiki is only open to participants in this project. To view the space and to work on the research pages, each person needs to become a member of wikispaces.com and join this wiki. Teachers will be assisting students with this process.

Creating Videos
To introduce yourself to your team members, each school/country team (ex. YHS Tunisia team) should create a short (1-2 minutes maximum) multimedia presentation about your team. You may want to include your interests/activities, your family, your school, or information about your home town.

Video/slideshow tools you might use include:
 * iMovie - exported to a video format and posted online
 * Keynote - exported to Quicktime and posted online
 * Animoto
 * Vimeo
 * [|Voicethread]
 * Wes Fryer has a post on his site (Playing With Media) about video sharing, including a number of tools. Please visit [].

Posting Videos Online
Once you have created the short video you can post it at number of places including:
 * [|Schooltube] (teachers can make accounts)
 * The [|project Youtube channel] (see instructions below)

Posting to YouTube Channel

 * [|Log in here] (teachers have the username & password)
 * Click on "Upload" to get to the Video Upload page
 * You can upload from a computer or drag and drop a file. Time limit is 3 minutes
 * While the video is uploading you need to set the Information and privacy settings (see screen shot below):
 * Title: Something like "Greetings from..."
 * Category: pick Education
 * Privacy: Unlisted
 * License: Creative Commons
 * then click on **Save Changes**
 * [[image:arabspring/Screen_shot_2011-09-30_at_1.53.09_PM.png align="center" caption="Screenshot of Video Information and Privacy Settings"]] ||
 * Screenshot of Video Information and Privacy Settings ||

Posting Videos to the Wiki
To embed your video into the wiki, make sure you are signed into the wiki. Then go to your country page (ex. Tunisia) and click the **EDIT** button in the upper right-hand corner. Position your cursor where you would like to embed your video, then choose the Widget gadget on the tool bar. Choose "Other HTML" for most online video or slideshow soureces and paste the embed code from the online source into the box. For a YouTube video from the project YouTube Channel, use the YouTube widget If you are using an online video site, be sure to set the privacy settings for the video so that only those with the link can see it.