Online Presentation Tools

Slide 1: Online Presentation Tools: SlideShare (plus), Google, Zoho Show, Thinkfree & Mixcaster Patricia F. Anderson <pfa@umich.edu> © 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All Health Sciences Libraries, UM rights reserved. May 9, 2008

Slide 2: Online social tools are useful for …  Folk who use multiple computers in various locations  Discovery of items similar to your selections  Sharing resources with peers, managers, students & others  Web site development & support  Building communities and discovering like- minded individuals

Slide 3: Online Presentation Resources  When making a presentation, you want pictures, and a few words. And people.  Finding Pictures:  Google Images  Other Image Search Engines  Flickr  Building your presentation -- Zoho: Show  Sharing your presentation (& finding other presentations) -- SlideShare.net

Slide 4: Creating Accounts  Each account per tool (Flickr, Zoho, Slideshare, Thinkfree) must usually be associated with a unique e-mail address.  If creating an account to be shared across an office, consider creating an e-mail list to serve as the contact e-mail address.

Slide 5: More: Copyright & Licensing  Creative Commons license options for both SlideShare and Flickr  Is there an institutional policy?  What does your boss think?  Most conservative license is “All Rights Reserved.”  Next most conservative, but more open, is Creative Commons, non-commercial use only, no derivatives.

Slide 6: Slideshare.net: Home

Slide 7: Slideshare.net: Home: Featured

Slide 8: Slideshare.net: About  Content from those who want to get their ideas out:  Not-for-profits  International schools  Consultants  Individuals

Slide 9: SlideShare.net: About 2  Things to do with SlideShare:  Find teaching materials  Share teaching materials  Share conference slides  Review content remotely from secured computers.

Slide 10: Slideshare - About sharing  Share with all  Share with many  Share with few  NOTES:  People can download your presentation without asking you first, unless YOU specify otherwise when uploading the file.  People can ask you.

Slide 11: Slideshare.net: Things to Do  Conference and Event presentation collections

Slide 12: Slideshare.net: Tags

Slide 13: Slideshare.net: Tag Browse

Slide 14: SlideShare.net: Searching  No advanced search  Sloppy search, but getting better all the time. Content growing rapidly.  Pluses: Searches full text of presentation slides, and breaks out full text in display

Slide 15: SlideShare.net: My SlideSpace

Slide 16: SlideShare.net: My SlideSpace  Presentations  Tags  Favorites  Contacts  Comments

Slide 17: SlidesShare.net: My SlideSpace  Feedback & Discussion  Who are you reaching?  Track use and downloads  Build a following, build your reputation

Slide 18: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Do it yourself podcast creation: sync slides to audio.

Slide 19: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Click “Edit” on an already loaded slide presentation

Slide 20: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Need to provide a URL for audio MP3 file - no option to upload file.  Assumption is URL needs to be stable / permanent

Slide 21: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Can load audio and process right away, or come back later to finish.

Slide 22: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Audio synchronization tool requires good vision.

Slide 23: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Select slides currently being edited

Slide 24: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  Select audio range currently being edited  Drag bars in audio to mark beginning and end of range.

Slide 25: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  What it looks like at the end of editing.

Slide 26: SlideShare.net: Slidecast  What it looks like when it is completed.

Slide 27: Zoho Show: Home

Slide 28: Zoho Show: What You Can Do

Slide 29: Zoho Show: Ways to Use It  Backup your presentation, in case:  Your computer fries at a conference  When you have to use someone else’s computer  You are working from a public computer without your preferred presentation software  Last minute edits / updates to previously loaded presentation  Pseudo Webcast presentations -- conference call + online slideshow you control  Interviewing job candidates remotely  Guest speakers & consulting presentations

Slide 30: Zoho Show: New Presentation

Slide 31: Zoho Show: Other Design Styles

Slide 32: Zoho Show: Editing Interface

Slide 33: Zoho Show: Adding a New Slide

Slide 34: Zoho Show: Images & Flickr

Slide 35: Zoho Show: Images & Flickr  Success!

Slide 36: Zoho Show: Menus  Import PPT  Export as HTML  Share with Others

Slide 37: Other Free Zoho Online Tools  Zoho Writer (word processing)  Zoho Sheet (spreadsheet)  Zoho Polls (surveys)  Zoho Creator (online databases)  Zoho Wiki  More … at Zoho.com

Slide 38: Google Docs Presentation Tool  Google’s presentation tool is part of the Google Docs suite of applications

Slide 39: Google Docs Presentation Tool  NOTE: Can only upload 10Meg files for slide presentations.

Slide 40: Google: Special Features  Email your files to load  Can share files  For viewing  For editing  For presentations  More on this soon

Slide 41: Google: Edit View

Slide 47: Google: Importing Images (Oops!)

Slide 48: Google: Share & Publish Tabs

Slide 49: Google: Sharing  Collaborators  Viewers  Asynchronous  “Create Event” = Synchronous

Slide 50: Google: Online Presentation  Online presentation > like web conferencing

Slide 51: Google: Online Presentation  Online presentation > like web conferencing

Slide 52: Google: Presentation View

Slide 53: Thinkfree  Like Zoho, provides a suite of applications

Slide 54: Thinkfree  Quick Edit for online presentation  Power Edit to create Powerpoint compatible documents

Slide 55: Thinkfree: Quick Edit

Slide 56: Thinkfree: Edit View

Slide 57: Thinkfree: Upload Files  Upload files - same reasons as for Zoho Show.

Slide 58: Thinkfree: Upload Files  What uploaded file looks like.

Slide 59: Thinkfree: FYI  CONS:  Not compatible with all browsers  New - still needs some fine-tuning  Commercial  PROS:  Interface comfortable to people familiar with Powerpoint  Mobile (can update via phone)  Commercial (support team?)

Slide 60: MixerCast  Blends uploaded media files into shareable presentation.

Slide 61: MixerCast  Upload and annotate various media types

Slide 62: MixerCast  Wizard available to simplify production.

Slide 63: MixerCast  Variety of layouts

Slide 64: Synopsis  Topics:  Slideshare: Import, share, no online editing, Slidecast: Podcast, <50meg  Zoho Show: Import, edit, share, live webcasting  Google: Import, edit, share, export, live webcasting, <10meg  Thinkfree: Import, edit, share, export – like PPT  MixerCast: Not like PPT, more multimedia, share  Contact Info: Patricia Anderson, pfa@umich.edu

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