Played with Google Slides and made this simple little presentation using screen prints of our web site. I'm not too sure what I'd really do with this but I like the way a presentation can be set to display in a blog post like this, or on a web page (if I knew how to edit mine!)
I tried doing something similar with Animoto:
Try our slideshow maker at Animoto.
I should have used some actual images I suppose but I like the general presentation and choice of music. (My account didn't seem to work though so thanks to Andrew Hill for setting up one for us so that I could share this here). Lastly, much better is my Picasa album of photographs from an exhibition last summer. With all the cold and miserable weather we've had, I needed this to cheer me up! Here I used the embed as slideshow option to add the code to this post.
All pretty simple stuff but thanks to LSIS for the money and opportunity to try out things that I probably wouldn't have tried otherwise. We could do with a session or two to help staff get a bit more familiar with some of the tools here as I am pretty sure we could make good use of more of them given a bit more time to see what they an do.
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Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Monday, 4 March 2013
One idea for making a web site...
As one of the people who'll be helping some participants with this project, I thought I'd better make sure I can practise what I preach!
One of the tools is, of course, Blogger which these pages have been published with. There are lots of options within this tool itself and it can just be used to make something like a web site. To illustrate this, I have just put a sample together in about 10 minutes which you can see at this link. Unlike lots of traditional web site tools, as well as making something like this, you can edit and update it too without needing specialist help or software.
It includes a form too on the Contact page which uses Google Forms. How to do that bit isn't quite as obvious as the text and pictures so I will be adding some notes on that site in a while for anyone that wants to experiment.
I'm also making examples using the same content with some other tools and hope to add links to the results for those too later today.
One of the tools is, of course, Blogger which these pages have been published with. There are lots of options within this tool itself and it can just be used to make something like a web site. To illustrate this, I have just put a sample together in about 10 minutes which you can see at this link. Unlike lots of traditional web site tools, as well as making something like this, you can edit and update it too without needing specialist help or software.
It includes a form too on the Contact page which uses Google Forms. How to do that bit isn't quite as obvious as the text and pictures so I will be adding some notes on that site in a while for anyone that wants to experiment.
I'm also making examples using the same content with some other tools and hope to add links to the results for those too later today.
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