Jun 9th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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 [...]
Jan 22nd, 2009
by pollyalida.
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. [...]
Sep 22nd, 2008
by pollyalida.
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 [...]
Mar 22nd, 2008
by pollyalida.
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. | View | Upload your own
Nov 1st, 2007
by pollyalida.
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 [...]
Oct 18th, 2007
by pollyalida.
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 [...]
