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[T.e.l.l. January] Finding the Best Tool for Creating Slides with Audio
The document discusses the need for an effective tool to create interactive slideshows with audio, emphasizing pedagogical benefits and the ease of use for instructors. It outlines essential features required in such tools, including publishability, user interface, and compatibility, while comparing various tools like iSpring Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Articulate Presenter, and Adobe Presenter, highlighting their pros and cons. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
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- 1. Tuesday With ETUG Findingthe Best Tool for Creating Slides with Audio Keith Webster Hayley Hewson University of Victoria January 27th, 2015, 12 noon (PDT)
- 2. Why do weneed this tool? • Research has shown that enhancing images with text or audio is good pedagogical practice • An interactive slideshow, where viewers have to advance the slides, is ideal • A slideshow with audio is an easy way to enhance a mostly text based course • Instructors/SMEs are usually comfortable with a PowerPoint-like tool
- 3. What features dowe need? The slideshow needs to be • publishable into an interactive (click-to-advance) format • easy to work with/edit And needs to include options for: • slide notes • images • audio
- 4. Publishing options • Playeroptions • User interface • File type (HTML5/Flash) • Compatibility with LMS? • Windows/Mac OSX/Android/iOS • Firefox/IE/Safari/Chrome
- 5. Ease of use •Is the interface intuitive? • Is it easy to edit a slide, image, notes or audio? • Is it easy to republish after editing? Image: Library of Congress
- 6. Slide Notes • Cana viewer copy and paste the slide notes from the published presentation? • Can slide notes be hidden and unhidden? • Can you set notes to be hidden at start?
- 7. Images • How doslides become images? • Are slides with multiple objects correctly converted? • Do images retain sufficient resolution?
- 8. Audio • Is audioquality acceptable upon publication? • Can you import audio into the slide presentation? • Can you record audio into the slide presentation? • Can you edit audio in the tool?
- 9. iSpring Presenter 7 Pros: •Easy to build in • Simple audio editor • Seems robust Cons: • No Mac version • No copy/paste of notes
- 10. Adobe Captivate 8 Pros: •Some copy/paste for notes • Lots of support material Cons: • Firefox issue • Difficult to use (notes/cc) • Scaling issues
- 11. Articulate Presenter 13 Pros: •Slide notes pull from PPT notes • Audio easier to use Cons: • Android forces app download • iOS/Android interface just scaled version of full size
- 12. Adobe Presenter 10 Pros: •Full support of copy/paste • Relatively simple interface Cons: • Limited Android support
- 13. Thank You! • Wehope this has been an informative and useful presentation • Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions • Keith Webster: keithw@uvic.ca • Hayley Hewson: hhewson@uvic.ca • Links: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/des/tell/index.htm
Editor's Notes
- #2 http://moourl.com/telljan15
- #3 Instructional designers at UVic have several programs where audio over slides is a major content option. Growing interest among instructors – we would like to be able to recommend a product. Hand-coded options for slides + audio + text are still to complex to expect all IDs to use without support.
- #4 There are a few key features: Deliver audio synchronized with specific slides Provide text but require it to be selected by the viewer Require student prompts to advance between slides (or at specific slides)
- #5 All tools offered customizable players and settings Controls for student use are provided by each, and are customizable Flash/HTML5 combination is most likely to offer greatest coverage We support IE, Firefox and Chrome on Windows, and Safari, Firefox and Chrome on Mac OS10. We have limited support for Android and iOS. Tool should publish to all these OS/browser combinations. Many tools offer LMS integration but we will just iFrame (for now)
- #6 Most tools are plugins of PowerPoint (Articulate, Presenter, iSpring) while Captivate imports slides from PPT. PowerPoint plugin tools make editing and re-publishing easier. Each is complex as many configurations/settings are possible. Design to handle complexity is handled differently among the tools. Some tools, like Articulate were prone to crashing.
- #7 Tools that resided as plugins in PPT pulled notes directly from PPT. All the tools allowed notes to accompany slides and to be hidden by default. Only Adobe Presenter provided good support for copy/paste of notes.
- #8 Articulate has sometimes crowded images in a slide upon conversion.
- #9 All tools allowed file upload or direct recording. Wide variation in complexity and usability of audio interface. Articulate impacted audio quality in Windows browsers.
- #10 Favorite of the presenters
- #13 Strong contender, probably worth further examination