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Playing with Narrated Slideshows

In anticipation of a new school year, I’ve been exploring ways of
simplifying the "stump" presos that I have to give. In other words, put
them online and then just refer
folks to them. I like MyPlick.com because it’s so easy, I’m not
dependent on an application on one computer (which means I can work on
GoogleDocs), AND, I can just record my audio with my Olympus WS-100 then convert
it from WMA to MP3 using
SwitchFree (cross-platform tool). (BTW, Wes Fryer (SpeedofCreativity.org)
has some nice
tutorials for Audacity and Switch).

For fun, I’ve decided to use MyPlick.com
as the tool for a few of these. I like it because, as I discovered
today, I can create a presentation in GoogleDocs, then copy-n-paste the
link over at MyPlick.

What’s more, I can also upload my audio to my host of choice (e.g. Edublogs.tv)
and then paste in the URL (web address) to the MP3 audio file…it ends
up looking like this:


 

The steps to do this are pretty straightforward…you could teach a
class on each approach just for fun:

MyPlick:

  1. Create your presentation in your tool of choice (e.g. GoogleDocs, make
    sure you publish it)

  2. Create your audio file for the presentation

  3. Upload both items, or copy-n-paste the URL, into MyPlick.com

  4. Publish your MyPlick.com

VoiceThread:

  1. Create your presentation in your tool of choice

  2. Export slides as images, then import into VoiceThread.com

  3. Add your audio comment to each image in VoiceThread.com

  4. Publish your Voicethread creation and share it with others.

PhotoStory (Windows Only):

  1. Create your presentation in your tool of choice (e.g. PPT, OpenOffice)

  2. Export your slides as images and import into PhotoStory

  3. Add your audio comment to each image

  4. Publish your PhotoStory, and convert it using MovieMaker and VLC Media
    Player

MovieMaker (Windows Only):

  1. Create your presentation in your tool of choice (e.g. PPT, OpenOffice)

  2. Export the slides and import into Moviemaker

  3. Record your audio in Audacity or digital audio recorder

  4. Import audio

  5. Synchronize audio and slides

  6. Export and upload

iMovie (Mac Only):

  1. Create your presentation in your tool of choice (e.g. PPT, OpenOffice,
    Keynote)

  2. Export the slides and import into iMovie

  3. Record your audio

  4. Synchronize audio and slides

  5. Export and upload

Did I mess up on the steps? Tons of other tools out there but what I
like about these is that they are no-cost and easy to use.

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