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Creating slidecasts on Slideshare just got easier!

pollyalida — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:17:08 +0000

Slideshare is a great place to share your presentation slide shows. And a great place to find presentations by others to inspire and educate. Adding audio to your presentation can make your slides even more useful to others. Slideshare lets you add audio to your presentations to create a “slidecast”, but up till now, you had to find some other web server to host your audio file. A bit of a barrier for many people. Now you can host upload your audio track right to Slideshare! Much simpler. Thank you Slideshare.

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Example of a Slideshare slide show (alas, without audio)

Online Outreach & Marketing

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SlideShare & YouTube

pollyalida — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:34:15 +0000

SlideShare, the popular site for sharing slide presentations, now lets users embed YouTube videos in their presentations. Just upload your slideshow as usual. From the edit screen, there’s now an option for embedding up to 5 videos per presentation. Very easy to do. More info available on the SlideShare blog.

Here’s my very quick test.

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Wordia – a video dictionary

pollyalida — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:21:26 +0000

This is way more fun than the vocabulary flash cards we used back in 3rd grade. Wordia is a collection of short videos submitted that explain the meaning of a word. Anyone can submit a video, some are casual, some goofy, some are a bit serious. But most of the ones I watched really did help understand the meaning of a word.

Wouldn’t this be a great class project?

Take a look for yourself and then get out your video cam and explain your favorite word.

One of my favorites was “fermata”, which was a new word for me!

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Slidecast demo on slideshare.net

pollyalida — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:01:14 +0000

For the upcoming screencasting classes in CT, I’ve put together a sample of a “slidecast” on Slideshare.net. Basically it’s a narrated Powerpoint slide show.

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Storytelling, Slide Sharing and WebSlides

pollyalida — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:43:03 +0000

At the school library tech camp session last weekend, some of us got talking about using Web 2.0 tools for digital storytelling. I decided to play with a few tools and create a new page about storytelling on my wiki: http://lib20.pbwiki.com/resources-storytelling

The tools all take your photos or images and let you add audio and/or text narration.

VoiceThread is a wonderful tool that I’ve mentioned here before that lets you upload your images, add text notes and audio. Other users can also chime in and leave audio and text notes.
Animoto was new to me (mentioned to me by Diane Cordell on TeacherLibrarianNing) Animoto lets you create short videos from your individual images and synchs them to music that you select or upload. The transistions and effects are all synched to the mood of the music and create the feeling of a video. Great fun.
SlideShare is a great place to upload and share your powerpoint presentations. And it has a terrific new feature that lets you add your audio narration to the slides.

For a ton of tools see Alan Levine’s terrific collection of tools at 50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

And now for the really cool find:

WebSlides – I found this through Alan Levine’s list of tools. It takes your list of URL’s and creates a live slide show of the sites in the list. And even handier, add an RSS feed of a list of links and you have a live slide show in moments. I added a feed from del.icio.us of sites that I’d been bookmarking for an upcoming class. Wow, a live slide show of all those sites, in just seconds!
Link to my test of WebSlides – because the ‘slides’ are actually views of the live web sites, the videos in the first ‘slides’ will play. Much more fun than a static slide show, though not much help if you don’t have internet access or a slow connection. Still I think I’ll be using this one a lot!

NYLA 2007 – Presentations on SlideShare

pollyalida — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:50:53 +0000

Just did a quick “nyla 2007″ search for presentations, blog posts, photos, links – anything about the conference. I was pleased to find some of the presentation slides already posted to SlideShare.net

Currently there are slides for:

Developing Consumer Health Information Services in Public Libraries (Christine McDonald, Guinevere Forshey)
Tag it! Social Bookmarking and Tagging (Sara Greenleaf)
Blogging in the Library (Nancy Weiss, Bonnie Hodes)

It’s so helpful to be able to preview a presentation to help choose which sessions to attend. Especially when there are any number of great sessions going on at the same time. Hope to see more presentations online during and after the conference.