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More slideshow creators than I can shake a stick at
September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
With the new version of WordPress used by Creative Blogs you have a much wider variety of slideshow production platforms than you used to have (you were pretty much limited to using Bubbleshare and Rockyou). Now a host of different services will work.
Here are a few examples:
This slideshow is generated using Photobucket.
Photobucket is great because it’s much more than just a slideshow creator – it’s a fully featured online photo store – more about which in a forthcoming post. Its downside is the irritating amount of ads on the site which you can overcome by getting a pro account for $40 per annum – a complete bargain if you are going to use it across the school.
Simply upload your photos, load up the slideshow creator and click on the photos you want included. Once you’re done, simply copy the HTML code that Photobucket provided and paste it into your post in the HTML editor. I’ll do a slide show going through the process in detail shortly.
This show is created using PictureTrail
Picturetrail has got loads of templates, borders and styles to choose from and it’s extremely simple to upload photos and create your slideshow. Once done, simply click on the big “Copy posting code” button and paste into your post in the HTML editor.
Here is a set of instructions for using PictureTrail and embedding it.
This one is done using Vuvox:
Vuvox is slightly more complex as you need to have the photos hosted online already at Picasaor Flickr. It will also work with Photobucket by clicking on your Photobucket album’s RSS feed (at the bottom of the page in Photobucket). Paste in the feed address and then edit your slideshow. Copy the resulting HTML code and paste it into your blog post.
I love this tree template that Vuvox uses. Lesson idea: when you class create their “all about me” Powerpoint at the start of the year (admit it, they did), allow them only to use a single slide. When they come to save their Powerpoint, instead of saving it as a Powerpoint slideshow, save it as an image (a JPEG file) – When you click “save” in Powerpoint use the drop down menu in the dialogue box to choose an image format. Collect all the children’s slides and upload them to Photobucket and paste the RSS feed into Vuvox – you’ll then have a tree with each of your children’s slides in the leaves.
Again, I will do a fully detailed slideshow to support this shortly.
More examples of slideshow creators to follow. In the meantime, here is an excellent wiki page from Suzie Vesper an ICT facilitator in New Zealand with details of lots more to try.
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great post …can I also recommend Soundslides which is fantastic, simple to use and looks great. We use it a lot and you can see examples of out own work using it and others on our blog http://www.duckrabit.info/blog
THANKS