Samples!

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Why not?



Anne Johnson and I had the online presentation tool of 280 Slides. Our idea for the presentation was to do a short presentation of some of the architecture on campus. After we got all of our images we uploaded them from our cameras into my Flickr account which turned out to be much more difficult than we expected. It only allowed us to upload one picture at a time so it took a long time to get them all up there (especially with all the attempts to find a way to bulk upload). After they all were online we began working with 280slides.com. It seemed like a general power point style forming site with limited themes but could preform many basic functions. Everything was working fine until we tried to load the second picture into the presentation. The media uploader froze, yet the mouse still worked and the image never showed up on the presentation. After fiddling with it for awhile we deleted the tab and tried again. This time it happened to the first image. We tried as many variations as possible and eventually asked Professor Kliegman for help. She had all the same problems we had, so she gave us a new website to try, slideflickr. It was a simple slideshow tool that loaded ALL of your pictures from your flickr account, you couldn't choose which ones you wanted to include. It also played music and could move the images faster or slower. You could add music from a URL, which was nice. We found some nice classical music by Bach that we added. We previewed the slideshow and it looked pretty good so we looked for a way to publish it and save it, only to find that a way to do that didn't exist! You could only add it to your facebook, embed it in your myspace, or post it on your Twitter. I tried posting it through Twitter several times but it never worked. So after all that work, we only had a little slideshow that only could play on the computer that we used! After all this we now know to never use either site ever again!

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