Category Archives: Audio/Video

Present.me

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Present.me

Upload your presentation slides. Then turn on your web cam (or not!) and microphone to record your presentation. The result is a presentation that includes your slides, with your audio and if you use your web cam, then you’ll appear next to your slides. Pretty nifty. I had a bit of trouble with editing the audio, but it might be the fault of Shockwave on my cranky tired computer.

Present.me supports the upload of slide decks in these formats: ppt, pptx, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, rtf, odt and Google Docs

Free plan includes 3 presentations a month, 1 private presentation per month, 15 minutes per presentation. There is an education plan, but you need to contact them to find out the terms.

What a great way for students to rehearse their presentations and share the finished presentations.

And of course, the presentations can be embedded – nothing profound here, just 3 random photos:

Now why hadn’t I heard of this till today? It’s been around for over a year!

 

Vocaroo

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Vocaroo is a really nifty tool for recording short bits of audio. Just click on “click to record”, give Vocaroo permission to access your microphone and off you go. You can create an account to  access your recordings, but you don’t have to. Just record, select “send to a friend” or “post to the internet” to get a URL for your recording or an embed code to place an audio player on a web page. So handy! I often use Vocaroo as a quick way to test if microphones are actually connected and working. Handy in a computer lab setting.

The embed code lets you place your audio file just about anywhere. I ran across some Vocaroo files in a Google Earth Lit Trip map. Students had recorded bits of a story and placed the audio files on the maps where the story took place. Like I said, nifty!