Final Blog Post


Taking screenshots of our powerpoint slides and then posting them as pictures on Instagram was a great way to incorporate our entire presentation into the social media platform.
However, we were unable to link videos that we had in the powerpoint to the pictures in the Instagram. Instead of having a link to pull up the video in the picture, we just posted the link of the video we wanted in the comments section.
It was none of our faults that this didn’t work; it was simply an issue with the social media platform. Instagram could make it so that you could tag a link into the pic, similar to how you can tag a person’s username in the pic.
Overall I still thought that the presentation went really well and we were able to effectively educate the class about Instagram while presenting our entire lesson inside the tool.

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