1. Tuesday With ETUG Finding the Best Tool for Creating Slides with Audio Keith Webster Hayley Hewson University of Victoria January 27 th, 2015, 12 noon (PDT)

2. Why do we need this tool? Research has shown that enhancing images with text or audio is good pedagogical practice An interactive slideshow, where viewers have to advance the slides, is ideal A slideshow with audio is an easy way to enhance a mostly text based course Instructors/SMEs are usually comfortable with a PowerPoint-like tool

3. What features do we need? The slideshow needs to be publishable into an interactive (click-to-advance) format easy to work with/edit And needs to include options for: slide notes images audio

4. Publishing options Player options User interface File type (HTML5/Flash) Compatibility with LMS? Windows/Mac OSX/Android/iOS Firefox/IE/Safari/Chrome

5. Ease of use Is the interface intuitive? Is it easy to edit a slide, image, notes or audio? Is it easy to republish after editing? Image: Library of Congress

6. Slide Notes Can a viewer copy and paste the slide notes from the published presentation? Can slide notes be hidden and unhidden? Can you set notes to be hidden at start?

7. Images How do slides become images? Are slides with multiple objects correctly converted? Do images retain sufficient resolution?

8. Audio Is audio quality acceptable upon publication? Can you import audio into the slide presentation? Can you record audio into the slide presentation? Can you edit audio in the tool?

9. iSpring Presenter 7 Pros: Easy to build in Simple audio editor Seems robust Cons: No Mac version No copy/paste of notes

10. Adobe Captivate 8 Pros: Some copy/paste for notes Lots of support material Cons: Firefox issue Difficult to use (notes/cc) Scaling issues

11. Articulate Presenter 13 Pros: Slide notes pull from PPT notes Audio easier to use Cons: Android forces app download iOS/Android interface just scaled version of full size

12. Adobe Presenter 10 Pros: Full support of copy/paste Relatively simple interface Cons: Limited Android support

13. Thank You! We hope this has been an informative and useful presentation Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions Keith Webster: keithw@uvic.cakeithw@uvic.ca Hayley Hewson: hhewson@uvic.cahhewson@uvic.ca Links: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/des/tell/index.htmhttp://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/des/tell/index.htm