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Pukman has been trying out online slide shows that he has produced with SlideShare (beta) and Zoho Show (beta).

Here is his latest go: Trying out Zoho Show. That looks buggy in both Camino and Firefox. In Camino, on the top page of Pukman’s blog, slide one of the Zoho Show flashes on and off as I scroll down past it, but it doesn’t display properly. Clicks in the display frame seem to advance to slide two (invisible) and beyond to: “End of Presentation. / Click here to start again.” The two slides almost seem to be tucked under the top edge of the display frame.

A SlideShare presentation that Pukman modeled earlier works slightly better: 3 spots in Kumamoto. That seven slide show displayed after a while, as I painted the display frame with cursor rollovers; then the advance & replay buttons worked to display individual slides.

Hopefully slide shows are working better in students’ blogs. If not, it is probably best to view the SlideShare presentations about Kumamoto that he and his students have posted in SlideShare proper (most of those you find with a search for “kumamoto”).

Months ago, cogdog discovered that Odeo allows recording of audio segments up to three minutes long. That is, if you are logged in as a registered user.

The Create on Odeo studio is here. Options include recording or adding audio from the web. Then, if you wish, you can create a podcast or embed the audio in your blog.

Let’s get cracking!

I’d like to ask you all to take a look at the following YouTube clip of a short speech. Below are some questions to answer as you view the clip.

1. How would you describe the person giving the speech? What can you discern about the speaker’s identity.
2. Who do you imagine is in the audience – immediate and intended?
3. What is the purpose of the speech; what does the speaker want the audience to know or do?

Please post your answers back at topline by Friday, and we’ll talk about them on Saturday.

This post incorporates a RadioOpenSource program, Global Warming: Coal — It’s Cheap and Dirty (November 14, 2006), that I found at ODEO. Actually, I was looking for something else, “Is Global Warming Real? Climate Change and Our Energy Future,” by Robert Dunbar (2004), but the program link to Dunbar’s talk is defunct in ODEO (it is still available from the iTunes Store).

I created this post from an ODEO to Blogger uplink with an embedded player (above). ODEO to blog settings were easy in Firefox, even though the ODEO blog set-up interface doesn’t display properly in Camino, and Blogger doesn’t recognize ODEO as a secure interface, either.

To use the blog setting functions and generate automatically titled blog entries at ODEO, you have to register. However, registration may not be necessary if you just find a program you like, click the “Embeddable Player” link, and copy/paste the embedding code from ODEO directly into a draft blog entry.

Springdoo
http://springdoo.com/

SpringMailFeatures
http://springdoo.com/xMailFeatures.aspx

SpringCastFeatures
http://springdoo.com/SpringCastFeatures.aspx

This post comes from Tucson, AZ, where I’ve worked on a Windows machine for days! Nevertheless, I succeeded in connecting a Logitech (TM) QuickCam (R) communicate STX (TM) webcam to the machine, and using it for slow-scan video-augmented audio/visual chats using Skype (TM).

The communicate STX model interpolates input from native VGA sensors to generate 1.3 mega-pixel still images. It produces live video at up to 30 frames per second, includes a built-in microphone and uses RightLight (TM) technology to compensate for low-light scenes. However, it lacks the RightSound (TM) technology of high-end QuickCam models. When set atop a thin-screen monitor with speakers at the bottom, the STX occasionally creates a feedback loop, or echoes, in Skype.