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 * Kizoa**
 * Voicethread**

**SLIDE NARRATION/DISCUSSION**

1. [|SlideRocket] : Michelle Luhtala has been urging me to try this one for months now. [|SlideRocket EDU] is part of her Google Apps package, but sadly, not ours. I’ve been playing around with Lite. Watching her [|tutorial/pitch] for the application, I am sold on the free EDU version. The presentation platform offers the ability to import presentations from PowerPoint or Google Docs, embed media, publish easily, access Flickr’s Creative Commons search, collaborate, analyize metrics, update presentations without replacing them, and store assets.

2. [|MyBrainshark] : This promising tool allows you to add voice to PowerPoint, documents, images, speadsheets, or videos. (MyBrainshark supports nearly 100 video formats.) Polls may be inserted. Users may add narration with their phones or computer microphones or by uploading a pre-recorded MP3. Speaker notes may be displayed as a support. And visual dashboards allow creators to track viewing results. 3. [|Present.me] : Upload slides and images, in either ppt or pdf formats. The program converts your files and allows you to record and present into your webcam as if you were presenting to an audience. A simple self editing function for missteps. Presentations may be shared or embedded. Your initial registration offer a month of premium service. After that a basic account is free and will allow you to record presentations up to 15-minutes long.

4. [|Movenote] : offers a similar arrangement of recorded side content accompanied with //photos, PowerPoint slides, text documents or even videos.// Movenote synchronizes the video and the side content for you when recording the presentation. 5. [|HelloSlide] is a pdf-only tool that allows you to add computer-generated voice to your documents. Upload your presentation, type the speech for each slide, and the programs automatically generates audio. Presentations are searchable, editable, and available in 20 different languages. An edit feature allows you to //tweak the speech// without re-recording the audio. Translations are available as a paid feature. This may be useful for ESL learners. The English voice reminds me very much of the one used on [|Xtranormal]. (Note: it is super easy to export PowerPoint and Keynote files as pdfs.)

**SCREENCASTING TOOLS** 1. [|Screenr] : This screencaster allows you to capture images from your desktop, select the location and size of the capture, and record your voice over the action on your screen. A pause button allows you to take a break. Login through Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, Linkedin, or Windows Live ID, and you are ready to record and instantly publish on your platform of choice. Of course, you can also embed elsewhere. You are limited to 5 minutes of recording.

2. [|Screencast-o-Matic] : records screen actions within the chosen dotted border. After the count-down, you may record and then publish to the Screencast-o-matic site, to YouTube, or to a video file. The free application limits you to a 15-minute presentation. Here is Andrew Steinman’s [|Flipped Classroom tutorial description] of the the tool for the Kent ISD. Registration is not essential unless you choose to save to the Screencast-o-matic site. If you are registered you can add notes and captions–a lovely feature for distant or flipped instruction! A Pro-account offers sophisticated editing functions.

3. [|Jing] : The free version of Jing requires a download (for Windows or Mac). Using the docked //sun// tool, users may record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video and instantly share using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or Screencast.com (Jing’s storage area which allows 2 gigs of space). You can mark up screenshots with text boxes, arrows, highlighting, or captions. Jing is also a handy tool for capturing screen images.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;">This is by no means an exhaustive list. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;">And, I realize that PowerPoint and other presentation programs allow for recording of narration and saving as video files. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;">Nevertheless, I think that these web-based options offer easy publishing options and additional valuable features. I welcome your suggestions in comments and I will continue to [|curate] our options. I hope to be sharing my own productions in future posts.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;">//Joyce Valenza is the Teacher-Librarian at Springfield Township High School, author, and technology advocate. Read her SLJ NeverEndingSearch blog [|here] .//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The prediction market selected five, when it [|launched] this past May: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But two weeks of discussion revealed many more:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #426897; font-family: 'helvetica neue',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">[|Google’s Presentation tool]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Prezi], a Web-based, Flash-powered concept mapping tool.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Keynote], Apple’s presentation tool.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Zoho Show], another browser-based slideshow service.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Wikis], which can be used to aggregate and modify content on the fly.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|280 Slides] is a browser-based slide creator, a Web 2.0 analog to PowerPoint. Once an account is created, you can built a slideshow in a kind of light ppt style.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Ahead] is a multi-purpose Web-based multimedia authoring tool. Like PowerPoint, it can be used to make slideshows and posters, along with other (Web)page-like content.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Animoto], which creates a video clip out of user-uploaded content.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Articulate Presenter], allowing the user to combine slides with voiceover and annotation. A branching function is available.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|ARTstor], the presentation tool for that Web-based art archive.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Camtasia] produces screencasts, video recordings of whatever desktop activities the user wishes to capture.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Dipity] displays slides along a timeline in four different formats: flipbook, list, map, and classic timeline.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Impress], part of the [|OpenOffice] suite.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|JogTheWeb] assembled individual Web pages into a series, a la Web Quest. Can be used for presentations, with one slide = one bit of Web content.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Keynote with clickers], which allows the presenter to move around the presentation space, while engaging participants through personal response systems.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|LaTex Beamer], a free download, lets users of the LaTex markup language produce slideshows from within their editor ( [|Wikipedia entry] ).
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Min.us] is an extremely simple Web service for uploading and arranging images. No captions (yet), but might work well for Presentation Zen-style ( [|see my next post] ).
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">Multi-Display Learning Spaces (MDLS, [|University of Nottingham] ) uses multiple media streams on a plurality of screens to create an immersive space. ( [|article], [|video] )
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|OmniGraffle], a Mac-only image and visualization tool.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Prezentit], created by a Peruvian team, is another Web 2.0 slideshow creator. Very basic functionality. Lets multiple users co-edit the same file.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|S5], a browser-based presentation platform based on open standards. Backend: one XHTML document, Javascript, and CSS.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Screen Flow] (Mac only), a screencasting tool.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|SIMILE Timeline] lets users turn Web content (HTML pages) into Web-based timelines.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|SlideRocket], a browser-based service for building and hosting presentations.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|SlideSix] lets users upload and edit presentations generated by PowertPoint, Keynote, and Open Office. There’s also [|an offline presenter version].
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Storify], which lets users create videos out of selected social media items (Flickr photos, Twitter tweets, etc.). Example: “ [|SNC English – Grad School Session] “.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Timeliner 3D] (BeeDoc, Mac only) arranges media items along a timeline.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Vuvox] creates multimedia documents that are a cross between timelines and collages.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|Wiffiti] lets users throw content onto a single, shared, projected screen. Pedagogically, Wiffiti can summon up audience/class contributions and participation. [|It can be used with Twitter].
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"> [|WimpyPoint], perhaps the most minimal presentation tool available. Dating back to the late 1990s, it hosts simple slides on a Web server. Example: “ [|Finding Complex Roots] “.

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