Making SlideShare Slidecasts

Making SlideShare Slidecasts Mike Bogle Educational Technologist Learning & Teaching @ UNSW

About Slidecasts
“ Slidecasting is a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file. It is for conference talks, musical slideshows, audio picture books or whatever else you can imagine.”
http://www.slideshare.net/faqs/slidecast

Software / Components
PowerPoint, Keynote OpenOffice, or other supported programs
Microphone
Audacity (for audio)
Hosting for audio file
Slideshare for the presentation
Shure 55S by jschneid – shared under CC-by-NC

Supported File Formats
SlideShare supports a variety of formats including:
PowerPoint (ppt, pps, pot, pptx, ppsx, potx)
OpenOffice files
Apple Keynote
PDF
Microsoft Word, Excel sheets, and text files.
OK by sillygwailo – shared under CC-by

Download Audacity
Audacity is a free, open-source audio editing program for Windows, Mac & Linux
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

See “Overview of Audacity” on Blip.TV: http://blip.tv/file/1645986/ Audacity: Set-up, Recording, Exporting

The General Idea
Create a presentation in a supported format
Record an audio file ( MP3 recommended )
Upload the presentation to SlideShare.net
Upload the MP3 to a web-visible location
In SlideShare, choose Create Slidecast
Follow the instructions to locate the file & synchronise the slides to the audio track

See the Slideshare FAQ on slidecasts at http://www.slideshare.net/faqs/slidecast
Slideshare: Synchronization Workspace

Eh ! Voilà
Once processed a yellow sign is displayed, indicating “Slidecast: Audio track inside”
Slidecasts are available anywhere, including embedded instances.

The End. By toolmantim - shared under CC-by-nc

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Making SlideShare Slidecasts

by Mike Bogle on May 19, 2009

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