Sharing the Addiction

Introduction

I have been playing with a number of presentation tools in the last few days. It all started with a message from Jon Johnson asking why the links in my ‘ICT Examples in Education’ presentation that I have uploaded to SlideShare don’t work. This has been a bug bear for me recently as hyperlinks used to work in SlideShare but don’t seem to anymore. I left a message on their online forum and had a response to say that this is a known issue and that they are working on it. I decided to explore other options again and this was the beginning of many hours on the net over the weekend. I still like SlideRocket but as this is in invite only beta at the moment, I decided to not focus my efforts there. I also revisited CogDog’s presentation on story telling tools as I was playing around SO…here are some of the tools I tried and presentations I either created within them or found by others who had used the tool.

280 Slides

A virtual buddy first alerted me to this on Twitter and I have to say that it is a lovely little application. It is built to look like Keynote (Mac application) but is online and open to anyone. It doesn’t have some of the bells and whistles at this point with no animations, audio or transitions but the interface is super easy to use and it really feels like you are using sofware from your own computer. One thing to be a wary of is changing the theme after you have already created a number of slides. It seemed to then shift some of the content around on the slide and some of the pictures seemed to disappear and had to be added again. Also, there is no hyperlinking options at the moment which is the main thing I was looking for but having emailed feedback to the team, they promised that hyperlinking is on its way (maybe as soon as next week!). I love the fact that I can embed a web video from places such as YouTube and that I can download my presentation as a Powerpoint. I set up this presentation below for a session I did on RSS and I used this online in full screen mode with no problems at all.

AuthorStream

I had played with this quite a long time ago but revisited it as I experimented. Again, I was impressed with this tool. It allows for animations on the slides and hyperlinks work perfectly. I will be uploading my ICT Examples in Education presentation to this site. Note: uploading is proving a little problematic – where is the perfect tool! I have embedded an example from their site instead.

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by bebeee

MyPlick

I have not yet tried making one of these myself but I am quite impressed at how easy it appears to be to combine and sync slides with audio using this tool. I have embedded an example I found on the site.

I have more tools to come but this will do for this post!

Tags: 280 slides, AuthorStream, MyPlick

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