{"id":2111,"date":"2012-08-11T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:05:30","slug":"remaking-a-slideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/remaking-a-slideshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking a slideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my US history class, I want a slideshow, with music and narration, of art during the 1920s, a subject textbooks cover very poorly. I&#8217;m into modernism anyway (see <a href=\"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/photographs\/\" target=\"_blank\">my new photos<\/a>) and I want students to see the historical connections.<\/p>\n<p>So waaaaay back in 2002, I created a slideshow to be embedded (hand-coded html, you know) into my lecture on the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center;display:block;\"><br \/>\n[qt:http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/hist111\/pw\/lectures\/Twenties\/modernism3.mov 450 575]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a microphone headset in 2002, so I recorded it in the bathroom and it sounds like it. I added the music using <a href=\"http:\/\/felttip.com\/ss\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoundStudio<\/a>, the only audio program I had and which I had paid for. Then I saved it all as a Quicktime movie, having to record several versions until I got the file size down (2.7 MB) that it could play on students&#8217; computers. I had to use QuickTime Pro to get it right. That also cost money.<\/p>\n<p>When I watch it now, it seems so old-fashioned technologically, so I remade it using PowerPoint (I could have used Libre Office) uploaded into Slideshare, with voice rerecorded into Audacity with a track for the music, then exported as mp3 and uploaded into Slideshare to make a slidecast.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[slideshare id=13944859?rel=0&#038;w=597&#038;h=486&#038;fb=0&#038;mw=0&#038;mh=0&#038;style=border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px;&#038;sc=no]<\/p>\n<p>So much better, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I have other older things like this that are harder to duplicate; for example, I have another I made in 2005 using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveslideshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LiveSlideShow<\/a>, which has better focus capabilities and now costs $69 (it was less then). I did upload it to Vimeo for easier embedding, which lost a smidge of quality.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center;display:block;\"><br \/>\n[vimeo 32757183 w=650 h=431]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s important for my pedagogy to do a presentation, I make one. And if it&#8217;s worth making, I should remake it as the technology gets better. Remaking this one would be tougher, but some really are worth the update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my US history class, I want a slideshow, with music and narration, of art during the 1920s, a subject textbooks cover very poorly. I&#8217;m into modernism anyway (see my new photos) and I want students to see the historical connections. So waaaaay back in 2002, I created a slideshow to be embedded (hand-coded html, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-online-teaching","category-the-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}