Imagine my delight when Jane the wonderful VCAL co-ordinator at Preston Reservoir Adult Community Education (PRACE) said she wanted to try out flickr for building a slideshow on our website!!
1) Jane had already chosen the photos to go online, and copied them into a folder on her desktop. We used a free image editor called XNview to re-size and optimise for the web. XNview is great because you can do the whole folder in one “batch process”.
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(More details about xnview over on my wiki page .. including the screencast i made for Jane, and a couple of accompanying “how-to” documents.
(i’m experimenting with a new kind of instruction, where i don’t write the instructions, i just give out the video and a document with visuals / screengrabs. The person learning then must write their own instructions as they watch the video. What do you think??)
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2) Jane had also signed up for and signed in to flickr / yahoo in preparation for the upload.
3) So we ventured to the flickr upload page .. and discovered that you can upload a whole folder in one go, these days!!
4) After uploading, Jane tweaked the tags in the flickr organiser application, adding VCAL, PRACE, education and youth etc .. and we were ready to see the slideshow.
5) In flickr, when you view your photostream as a slideshow, you can find an “embed code” that lets you play that slideshow anywhere on the web.
So if you visit our PRACE youth / VCAL page, you’ll see the photos.
One great thing about the flickr slideshow, is that the next time Jane wants to upload more photos into her flickr stream, they’ll automatically be included in the slideshow (i think).
Yay Jane!!
photo credit: (creative commons at flickr) Thanks for “Definitive Car“.
I use Picasa for compressing the images and then I upload to Bubbleshare which has a Slider for viewing (first seen on Rosa’s podomatic site). You can compare the Bubble slide show and the Bubbleslider at the Home page of our wiki above. Early days yet, but unlike other web2 tools it’s been a breeze…
JK
Hi @Jill, thanks so much for your comment. Yes i agree, picasa / bubbleshare is also a good combo.
i needed an application that could be run across the network without installing, hence the xnview option (which can also run via portable/usb). But it’s a matter of taste and preference isn’t it – both these programs help you organise your photos, and edit them as well.
Picasa has the added benefit of built-in uloading to some online services (eg blogger gallery). Plus it’s great the way google has set up an easy pack of free software (iincluding picasa).
Regards, michael