Soundslides tips

You’ll need the following ingredients to create an audio slideshow using Soundslides and post it on your blog:

The Soundslides program (available for free from Soundslides.com).
A folder containing jpg photos.
An mp3 audio file.
An account with Webng (available for free from Webng.com).
A bit of patience.


Getting started:
Open Soundslides.
Ignore the Registration page by clicking Later.
Select NEW Create a project.
Give your project a name and give the computer a place to save it.

You’ll come to a page that asks you to load your jpg folder and mp3.
First, select an Output size on the left. Try “small” because you’re putting it on a blog.

Now load your jpg folder.
Then load your mp3.

You can change the order of your photos, and change the amount of time they stay on-screen.

You cannot alter the mp3 file once it’s loaded.

To change the order of your photos, drag and drop them where you want them. If that doesn’t work – it didn’t work well for me – you can specify the time at which they appear. This is done in the Slide Info tab.

You can adjust the length of time a photo stays on-screen by clicking the side of a photo in the timeline and sliding it left or right.

Put captions on your slideshow by using the Slide Info tab. Give your slideshow a headline (and give yourselves credit) under the Project Info tab.

When you’re happy with your audio slideshow, click export.
This creates a folder called publish_to_web.

You must highlight all of the items in the folder and create a zip file of them – go to File, and select Create Archive. You will need the zip file when you upload the slideshow to the Web, so find out where it resides (I had trouble finding mine).

In WebNG, use File Manager and create a new directory. Open that directory, then upload your zip filed.

Unzip.
Allow it to overwrite files.
Delete the Archive zip file in the directory.

Click Current URL to view the soundslide.

Copy the URL and paste it into:
www4.soundslides.com/apps/utilities/

This generates an embed code that you can place in your blog.

You can modify the width and height of your slideshow at this point. If you change them, click Modify. That generates a new embed code.

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Dad turns 80 -- Flipcam Phun

Phun with fish

Group Project: Audio Slideshows

Audio Slideshow Project
Due: April 1
Upload slideshow to your blog
Save audio file and photos in a folder on the server

Create a 2- to 3-minute audio slideshow.

Tell a story with this project.
Consider it a journalistic narrative, with a beginning, middle and end.
Include sound from an interview with someone outside of your team (and family).
You can mix the sound with your own voice(s), or just use the interview sound.
Figure out how to identify the project at the top so the listener/viewer will understand.
Remember Mindy McAdams’ suggestion: change photos every 5 seconds.

Ideas:

Messy professors
Sporting event:
lacrosse, intramurals, tennis
Campus tour
Cooking lesson
Speech
Concert
Class lecture
Public meeting
How to
Interview someone about something he/she does

Assignment for March 23

Assignment for Tuesday, March 23:
Find two slideshows and one photo gallery on separate Web sites and critique them on your blog. One of the slideshows must have audio; the other should not. Photo galleries don't ordinarily include sound.
Include the URLs so we can find them.
Criteria: Do the slideshows and photo galleries function well as storytelling tools? Which does the better job? Why or why not? What difference does sound make?

guide

Freshman's guide to partying at LSC
http://media.libsyn.com/media/sandbox/Multi_Media_Guide_to_partying.m4a
text at http://freeboompress.blogspot.com/


Basketball seniors say farewell
http://media.libsyn.com/media/sandbox/intro.mp3
text at http://thebuzzatlsc.blogspot.com/

Counting to 10

This is a brief bit of audio for the ENG 2155 class.

Try this

If you click the title of this blog post, you will see a simple podcast player.

libsyn test

Maybe this will work.
(http://sandbox.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=591173)

Another Podcast Test

Podcast Team Project

- Create a 5- to 10-minute audio project and make it available on your blogs as a podcast.
- Use at least two voices.
- Write a 400-word story to accompany it. Grammar and spelling count.

Deadlines:
- Submit project outline via blogs March 4
- Submit project via blogs March 11

Some ideas:
- Restaurant reviews
- Dorm cooking tips
- Interview
…a professor
…an athlete
…an interesting student
…students (plural) about a topic
- Review an LSC band
- Advice
…relationships
…easiest classes

podcast player experiment

Go code-crazy.
Here's a link to instructions for creating a player for your podcast.
Follow the instructions in the Tutorial. You do not have to follow the "If You Use Blogger" instructions at this point.