Learning Unit #11
#1
I’d like to direct you to http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZnOaPnlC4pGqw36AWK5FTaw.html, this is a great panoramic view of one of the cultural sites in Mesa Verde. The last time I was in the park most of it had been torched by fire, there was nothing green when I saw it. I think I like it this way much better.
#2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2581029/Social-Bookmarking
Update: Slideshare finished processing my ppt, You can still go to scribd to see it sans audio.
#3
Creating the slide show itself was not hard. Recording a short speech on social bookmarking and saving into a mp3 format was not hard. Finding out that I Scribd needed ppt 2003, and that the Slideshare site was not up to snuff was somewhat more difficult. After a few hours of playing around with formats and driver upgrades I finally succumbed and used two sites for my slide presentation. I stored my power point on social bookmarking at Scribd and my audio file is saved on the Internet archive. The link in #2 leads to my power point, saved at Scribd, and the link below leads to the spoken portion of the task. I had hoped to figure out how to use html to code a way for the file to be streamed directly from my blog, but the task is beyond my knowledge of the language.
http://www.archive.org/details/SocialBookmarkingMp3_989
You can either download the file, or use their player on the top right corner of their site to play the audio.
Update: Slideshare has finished converting my ppt file, so I went ahead and tried their service for slidecasting. Their method is very easy and fairly intuitive, I think it could be pretty successful if they can get around how long the conversion time seems to be. You can find my slidecast either here http://www.slideshare.net/jaguidosh/social-bookmarking-363878 or you can enjoy the easy embed option that slideshare provides for wordpress bloggers. I’m fairly certain that’s my favorite part of their service, I don’t have to mess around with code to get a slidecast saved on another site to show up on my blog.
Another Update: For a while I was getting desperate because Authorstream didn’t seem to want to convert my files either. It looks like both Authorstream and Slideshare just suffer from long conversion times. Here’s a link to my powerpoint on Authorstream, it’s a little different because I had to redo the audio to split it up for PPT.
JA
You did a good job on presentation as well on the presentation. Both of these sites are suffering from over use. I am sure in the future they will increase the cpu and bandwidth at their web sites.