Slidecasting

If you haven't seen SlideShare.net, it's a free Web-based service
by Rashmi Sinha and friends where you can upload your presentations
in PowerPoint, Open Office or PDF formats and they get converted
into a Flash format which people can view by clicking on forward
and back buttons.

    http://www.slideshare.net

It also supports something the SlideShare folks call "slidecasting".
That's when you also upload an audio file and synchronise the slide
turns to the audio (like, a recording of a talk).  SlideShare doesn't
provide hosting for the audio but if you can find a place to stream
an MP3 from (they suggest The Internet Archive), you can paste the
URL into a field on SlideShare and you're away.

It's got some intriguing possibilities for remote teaching and
preaching, showing and telling.

I decided I really must have a go at slidecasting, and the perfect
opportunity came along when I was asked to prepare a talk for the
Sussex Branch of the British Computer Society, about computers
and climate change.

I've written up my experience of using SlideShare (it's impressive,
but not without some clunkiness) on my blog; here is the Permalink...

http://conradiator.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/slidesharenet-and-slidecasting

As for my experiment, you can get at it from here:

     TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/67xksy

Conrad
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