Slide+Shows



**Slide Shows - Web 2.0 Tools**
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar. You can search for slideshows on a specific topic. If someone already did one, why recreate the wheel, simply borrow what you need and keep going. Voice Thread is a cool new tool that I have begun using. You can upload pictures and make a slide show. You can add audio files. There are tools that you can annotate on the picture while you are talking about it. These files are then on the internet and you can share them with others. Other people can leave comments on specific parts of your show.
 * SlideShare -** **http://www.slideshare.net/**
 * VoiceThread -** [|**http://voicethread.com/**]

(Click the orange Play arrow to view. This is the most basic of Bubbleshare options. They have lots of themes and sliding shows. The text is actually speech balloons. Bubbleshare is extremely easy to use. You have to register to use Bubbleshare. Add to My Blog to access the various slideshow formats. ALSO -- It's a good idea to leave lots of white space in your speech/text boxes (if you use them). Sometimes words get mysteriously cut off.
 * Bubbleshare** - http://www.bubbleshare.com/

(Click the Play arrow to view - no captions in this one. Animoto analyzes your images and creates a 30-second "music video" style presentation. There is free music on the site, or you can upload your own (mindful of copyright, of course). You have to register to use Animoto. Find the embed code under the "thumb tack" icon, select embed and choose "other sites."
 * Animoto** - http://animoto.com/

(Roll over each image to see the caption. This site also offers dozens of themes, features and options for your slideshow). You to not have to sign up to create a slide show. Just use the for Slide.com. Copy the code in the white box and ignore the rest of the steps.
 * Slide.com** - http://www.slide.com/