Web 2.0 Presentation Tools & Resources: SlideShare &
Slidecast, Zoho Show, Thinkfree & Mixcaster Patricia F.
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Web 2.0 is 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
Web 2.0 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
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.
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.
Slideshare.net: Home
Slideshare.net: Home: Featured
Slideshare.net: About
Content from those who want to get their ideas out:
Not-for-profits
International schools
Consultants
Individuals
SlideShare.net: About 2
Things to do with SlideShare:
Find teaching materials
Share teaching materials
Share conference slides
Review content remotely from secured computers.
NOTES about sharing:
People can download your presentation without asking you first,
unless YOU specify otherwise when uploading the file.
People can ask you.
Slideshare.net: Things to Do
Slideshare.net: Tags
Slideshare.net: Tag Browse
SlideShare.net: Searching
No advanced search
Sloppy search, but getting better all the time. Content growing
rapidly.
Community still young (in Web 2.0 terms), so few comments /
added tags
Pluses: Searches full text of presentation slides, and breaks
out full text in display
SlideShare.net: My SlideSpace
SlideShare.net: My SlideSpace
Presentations
Favorites
Tags
Contacts
Comments
SlidesShare.net: My SlideSpace
Feedback & Discussion
Who are you reaching?
Track use and downloads
Build a following, build your reputation
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
Do it yourself podcast creation: sync slides to audio.
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
Click Edit on an already loaded slide presentation
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
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
Can load audio and process right away, or come back later to
finish.
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
Audio synchronization tool requires good vision.
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
Select slides currently being edited
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
Select audio range currently being edited
Drag bars in audio to mark beginning and end of range.
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
What it looks like at the end of editing.
SlideShare.net: Slidecast
What it looks like when it is completed.
Zoho Show: Home
Zoho Show: What You Can Do
Zoho Show: Ways to Use It
Backup your presentation, in case:
Your computer fries at a conference
When you have to use someone elses 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
Zoho Show: New Presentation
Zoho Show: Editing Interface
Zoho Show: Adding a New Slide
Zoho Show: Images & Flickr
Zoho Show: Images & Flickr
Success!
Zoho Show: Actions
Import PPT
Export as HTML
Share with Others
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
Thinkfree
Like Zoho, provides a suite of applications
Thinkfree
Quick Edit for online presentation
Power Edit to create Powerpoint compatible documents
Thinkfree: Quick Edit
Thinkfree: Edit View
Thinkfree: Upload Files
Upload files - same reasons as for Zoho Show.
Thinkfree: Upload Files
What uploaded file looks like.
Thinkfree: FYI
CONS:
Not compatible with all browsers
New - still needs some fine-tuning
PROS:
Interface comfortable to people familiar with Powerpoint
MixerCast
Blends uploaded media files into shareable presentation.
