Creating Slidecasts

Creating Slidecasts in Slideshare
Danielle Kane
Research Librarian for Emerging Technologies and Service Innovation
UC Irvine Libraries
Lunch2.0
April 2010

Ability to record
Hardware: microphone & speakers
Software: recording program (Audacity)
Internet Archive account – login using OpenID
Slideshare account
Skills – cut, paste, and patience
What do I need?

Create slides
Capture audio during presentation
Edit audio
Upload audio to Internet Archive
Wait to render
Upload slides to Slideshare
Link audio from Internet Archive to Slideshare
Combine slides and audio using Slideshare tool
Let everyone know it is available
Lunch 2.0 Slidecasts

Create a presentation using:
PowerPoint
Open Office Impress
Google Docs
Save file as:
.ppt
.odp
Step One

Overview of Tools
Audacity
Internet Archive
Slideshare

You can use Audacity to:
Record live audio
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files
Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
Change the speed or pitch of a recording
Audacity
Audacity - free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

A non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

Some of the things you can do on SlideShare
Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
Synch audio to your slides (Slidecast)
Include YouTube videos in your slides (Videoslides)
Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
Download the original file
Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/

Audacity
http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/psychology

Skip to start, play, record, pause, stop, and skip to end
Cut, copy, and paste

1. Highlight text
2. Use Edit and Cut

Save as project as an archive, editable copy
Export as .wav to use for Slidecast

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

Login with an account or OpenID

Click on Upload button
Then click on Share in upper right corner

1. Choose your file
2. Enter metadata about the object

Don’t forget to Bookmark it!

SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/

1. Click on Upload
2. Choose your file
3. Add your metadata

Once slides are posted, click on “edit”. Choose create Slidecast.
Use Synchronization Tool to “hook” audio to the slides.

How does this differ from Replay
Slideshare:
Replay:
Only allows editing of the beginning and end of file
Can't make changes to content after the fact
Plays as a streaming video with audio
Easier to create and produce
Requires more steps and software to produce
Allows for editing of ALL audio
Can make changes to slide prior to posting
Need to hook audio to slides manually
Slidecasts play as a video but have a slideshow quality
Provides viewing statistics

Share expertise
Widen the impact and audience of your presentations/documents
Gather statistics beyond who attends your in-person session
Why create slidecasts

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