Pukman @ WinK: the community that time didn't forget

The files that go into QuickTime Pro to make a slideshow movie must be images. I could have used the book cover images as they were, but I decided that I wanted to accompany them with some text, so I made a Keynote presentation and exported the slides as images. Keynote gives all the images the same name, but with 001, 002, etc., added on the end.

I like the I Can Read series very much. We have lots of I Can Read books in the PUK Library. This slideshow with sound was made with QuickTime Pro, according to two tutorials at the Apple website.

Last week, we didn't have much time to work on "Essay" 4, a presentation about Kumamoto, but you did have a chance to start thinking about the topic, and to experiment with Keynote and/or PowerPoint. This week, we'll start serious work on the presentation. Key points are:

1. Save the work you do, preferably in at least 2 ways/places;*
2. 5 slides minimum, and about 10 slides maximum;
3. You can base your presentation on Essay 2, or do something a little different;
4. You shouldn't have long paragraphs on your slides. It's better to use small amounts of text and some images;
5. Because the amount of text is small, please make sure it's well-written!

If time allows, I'll show you how to sign up for SlideShare, the service we will use to put the presentation into our blogs.

* Please save images and notes as well as your presentation file. In the future, we may use those again to present the information with your voice.

One other thing: I had forgotten all about the "Word Count" widget, but was reminded about it when I saw it on a few students' blogs. I recommend that you install it in your blog footer; then you can count the words in your posts easily.

Slideshare has a new widget feature that makes it very easy to embed a selection of presentations in your sidebar. Check it out!

• Hiroko Tabata Today: slideshare is difficult...


• Aso, by Shiorin


• Yuri: Kumamoto spots


• Safu: Favorite places in Kumamoto


• Stististitch on Kumamoto

Check out this page! It has all the presentations tagged with "kumamoto". Most are by KGU students. I'm looking forward to seeing presentations by PUK students!

And don't forget to see the list!

Check out some of the presentations about Kumamoto that students have made:

• Yuhimi team
• Kaori
• Yuri
• Safu
• Narumi
• Kazu
• Shiorin
• Iyoume
• Nanae

Check out this presentation! And then visit Slideshare.net to see more presentations about Kumamoto, and many other topics.

In this presentation I talk about 3 nice spots in Kumamoto, Japan: Mitsui Greenland, Kumamoto Castle, and Aso.

Kumamoto Castle is Known as one of the "Big 5" castles of Japan. It was built in ===== by Kato Kiyamasa.

Aso is famous as the biggest caldera in the world. It has an active volcano.

Mitsui Greenland is an amusement park in Arao.

Extra information about Mitsui Greenland here.

Today, let's learn how to upload our presentations. You should master how to do this during the lesson, even if you haven't finished your presentation. Then you can finish it off for homework and upload the new one. You need to do this before next week's lesson!

I hope that your blog, with book reviews, some short essays, a collaborative essay about Kumamoto, a presentation, Kumamoto links, links to other blogs, and of course some diary-type posts, is becoming something that you can be proud of. You should show it to prospective employers, or overseas schools, etc.

Here's another example of a presentation embedded in this blog through Slideshare. How to do this:

1. Join Slideshare
2. Convert your Keynote presentation to PowerPoint.
3. Upload the PowerPoint presentation to Slideshare.
4. Go to your presentation in Slideshare. Look for the embed field on the right side of your presentation. Copy ALL the text in that field.
5. Make sure the compose (sakusei) window is open in Blogger. Paste the text into a post.

Here is an example of a presentation embedded in a blog by using Slideshare.