To create a website for National History Day go to nhd.org/nhdwebcentral.
There you will be able to register, see videos about how to make a website and log-in to the web site program.
To register you will need your parents email and phone number. To register, go here. You can register and then sign in to the program.
Before you make your website, watch the how-to videos here. Select the Step-by-Step Videos button to view them. They are short and very helpful.
DOCUMENTARIES
You may use any video design software you have to make your video, including iMovie. You can make your doumentary on your phone.
If you don't have video design software, you can use Adobe Spark for free on your Chrome book.
Go to your Clever.com page and click on the icon for Adobe Spark. Set up your account. If you can do this at home you can go ahead and start work on your documentary. There are some video tutorials at Adobe that you can watch before you begin.
To capture/convert Youtube and other videos follow these steps:
- Find your video and then copy the url link
- Go to www.onlinevideoconverter.com or another video converter program.
- Select convert video link
- Paste the url link of your video in the box
- Convert the video to an mp4 file.
- After the conversion, press download. This will put the file in your drive probably in a file labelled downloads.
- Go to your documentary in Spark
- Select the + button and choose video
- You should be able to find your video in the drive folder that pops up.
- Edit video to include just the portion you want to include. Be care here because you cannot undo this action. You can delete the slide and redo it.
- Save your work
This looks like a lot of steps, but once I figured it out, it was fairly easy to do.
However, if you can put video in your documentary on a laptop or other computer, it's much easier than doing it on a Chromebook. You can just download the files to your desktop after they are converted and then upload them to Spark.
