One of the activities I’m increasingly engaging in at UNSW is working with local academics to help them integrate educational technologies into their courses. Part and parcel to this is the need for support documentation for both academics and students depicting how to actually use them.
A recent request came through concerning the creation of rich media presentations. The instructor is going to ask her students to design and produce presentations that can be added to the LMS, where they are then discussed by the other students. She anticipates varying degrees of expertise with technology, with some students excelling and designing highly innovative presentations, while others needed a helping hand from start to finish. So I agreed to put together some support resources covering two possible options for their presentations – certainly these aren’t the only ways to do it.
Given there’s nothing sensitive in the documentation I produced that refers to the instructor, the course, or any of her students, I felt it was reasonable for me to share this resource with anyone else who might find it useful. I’ve uploaded the document to Slideshare, where it is available as a download (just select Get File from the menu at the top of the document). An embedded instance is also included below
I’ve also put together a screencast tutorial covering use of the Slideshare Synchronization Workspace (which is one of the more tricky parts of the process). This is embedded below as well, or available directly on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKtyUPuL-Bs.
Feedback or comments are welcome, as always.
Documentation: Using SlideShare And Picasa Web Albums
Video Tutorial: How To: Using the Slideshare Synchronization Workspace
Hey,
I am from sldieshare.
Thanks for the video tutorial… this is great … we're putting this on our blog… check it out in some time.
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My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it. I love SlideShare and am especially happy to see you're now allowing document uploads too. It's a great service and I'm only too happy to recommend it.
Nice way of explaining easy to understand slide casting
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first of all, it’s great to have audio-synchonization!
it really adds a lot to the functionality of your site…
but i can think of several ways to make it easier.
for instance, how about just submitting a list of
the times in the .mp3 at which transitions occur?
or how about letting the person start the .mp3
and the slideshow, and clicking “next page” at
the appropriate times where they want a change?
or how about scanning the .mp3 for a distinctive
sound (e.g., a bell), which would cue a transition?
finally, setting the appropriate number of points
in the .mp3 (one less than the number of slides)
at equally-spaced points that can then be adjusted
would seem — at least to me — to be far easier
than having to seek each end-point separately…
again, it’s great to have this feature. i just think
there are several ways it could be more friendly…
-bowerbird
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