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Learning objects classified as slide shows offer customizable templates for content presentation. Most often, this entails still images, but it is often possible to incorparate animations or to embed sound and video.
PREZI
A web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations, where they can zoom in and out of a visual map. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
See also: Prezi: Technology for the Classroom
Type: Slide Show
Learning Goals: Especially
recommended to help students analyze or understand part-to-whole relationships. If used as an active-learning tool, Prezi can encourage interaction through its non-sequential display capabilities.
Estimated Production
Time:
1-2 weeks
Recommended Software: No special software required (Use Prezi)
Publication Options: click to view
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
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SLIDE SHOW OF HARVARD COLLECTIONS
A slide show that rotates digital surrogate images from Harvard's collections, such as those in VIA or museums. These slide shows can be embedded in research guides. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
See also: Using Anthropological Literature (see it in the Learning Objects Showcase) and Music 1b: Introduction to Western Music from Beethoven to the Present
Type: Slide Show
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students value featured collections and serendipitously identify featured images, documents, or objects of scholarly interest.
Estimated Production
Time:
2 hours
Recommended Software: No special software required; however, it may be helpful to edit images first in Adobe PhotoShop or Adobe Fireworks.
Publication Options: Can be integrated into HCL LibGuides, FAS course iSites, and most other web pages by simply uploading images and adding a bit of JavaScript code.
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
TBA (For suggestions or questions from
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SLIDE SHOW THAT ROTATES UPON RELOAD
A slide show that rotates images when the web page is refreshed. These slide shows can be embedded in research guides. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
See also: Inter Libros (research spotlight)
Type: Slide Show
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students value featured collections and serendipitously identify featured images, documents, or objects of scholarly interest.
Estimated Production
Time:
2 hours
Recommended Software: No special software required; however, it may be helpful to edit images first in Adobe PhotoShop or Adobe Fireworks.
Publication Options: Can be integrated into HCL LibGuides, FAS course iSites, and most other web pages by simply uploading images and adding a bit of JavaScript code.
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
TBA (For suggestions or questions from
other colleagues, check for Comments at the
bottom of this box, or add your own.)
VOICETHREAD
A collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows students to navigate pages and leave comments. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
Type: Slide Show
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students analyze, critically evaluate, understand, give feedback about, and use/search featured information resources, such as primary documents, images, videos, presentations, etc. VoiceThread may also encourage students to value or get excited about subject matter because it offers an opportunity to interact with content and with other students through webcam video, microphone, telephone, text, or image and through file uploads of their own.
Estimated Production
Time:
2 weeks
Recommended Software: No special software required (Use VoiceThread)
Publication Options: click to view
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
TBA (For suggestions or questions from
other colleagues, check for Comments at the
bottom of this box, or add your own.)
- Instructional Design Tips
- Technical Development Tips