{"id":2679,"date":"2014-01-31T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2014-01-31T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:02:29","slug":"last-call-for-slidecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/last-call-for-slidecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Call for Slidecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zokuga\/8142163292\/\" title=\"At the Immigrant: last call for blackout beer by Dan Nguyen @ New York City, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8043\/8142163292_ab79d95b56_z.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"At the Immigrant: last call for blackout beer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slideshare.net\/\">SlideShare<\/a> has just announced that their \"slidecasting\" feature will be discontinued. Slidecasting is a nifty service that allows a slideshow (such as one might create in Powerpoint or Keynote) to be synchronized with audio content. In other words, it allows you to narrate your slides. <\/p>\n<p>Nifty, yes, but apparently not popular enough to warrant ongoing maintenance. The folks at SlideShare cited lack of widespread usage in today's announcement.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of February, users will no longer be able to create new slidecasts. At the end of April, existing slidecasts will be zapped into oblivion. Actually they will be converted into static presentations, i.e. plain old slide shows <em>sans<\/em> audio.<\/p>\n<p>Attentive readers of this blog will know that I, Bart Everson, CAT's resident Media Artist, have created several slidecasts for eager faculty members who were unable to attend my workshops.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is last call for slidecasts. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/editor_b\/global-immediacy-2548298\">Global Immediacy: Using Video Telephony to Bring Distant Guests into Your Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/editor_b\/social-bookmarking-3081264\">Social Bookmarking: Using Delicious<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/editor_b\/web-logs-and-scholarship\">Web Logs and Scholarship: How Blogs Are Changing the Nature of Academic Discourse<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are interested in these topics, check out these presentations before April 30, at which point they will go silent.<\/p>\n<p>This should serve as a cautionary note. Technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Free services offered by internet companies are liable to vanish quickly.<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <span about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32451477@N02\/8142163292\/\" xmlns:dct=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32451477@N02\/8142163292\/\" property=\"dct:title\">At the Immigrant: last call for blackout beer<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC 2.0\/<\/a><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SlideShare has just announced that their \"slidecasting\" feature will be discontinued. Slidecasting is a nifty service that allows a slideshow (such as one might create in Powerpoint or Keynote) to be synchronized with audio content. In other words, it allows you to narrate your slides. Nifty, yes, but apparently not popular enough to warrant ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/last-call-for-slidecasts\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Last Call for Slidecasts\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[286],"class_list":{"0":"post-2679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social","7":"tag-slidecasting","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Hd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/social-bookmarking-presentation\/","url_meta":{"origin":2679,"position":0},"title":"Social Bookmarking Presentation","author":"Bart Everson","date":"February 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I offered a workshop titled \"Social Bookmarking: Using Delicious.\" I recorded the audio live, so for those who couldn't make it, here's a slidecast of the entire 55 minute presentation. 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