I’ve given a talk a few times on the why of Yacapaca, but it seems a bit daft with all this technology at our disposal to go running round the country just to give a didactic presentation. So, today I finally got around to converting the ePortfolio I was using as a slideshow to a multimedia presentation. I used Flektor, a really nice online multimedia composer. Flektor is fairly new and the movie embed is still a little unreliable, but just follow this link and you’ll get to the presentation. About 7 minutes long, and maybe worth using as a starter for an INSET presentation?
Is your desire to make the entire ePortfolio in this seemingly linear presentation, or just this presentation as an artifact in the ePortfolio?
Thanks for the comment, Royce. In this case I was using our eportfolio system to structure a powerpoint-style presentation. All it was (is, it’s still there in my Yacapaca student account) was a series of images, over which I talked. If you are familiar with Yacapaca eportfolios, you will know that they come with a variety of skins. One of the skins is very plain and designed specifically to support the traditional linear ‘slide+talk’ live presentation. So in Flektor, I simply took those images, in the same sequence, and recorded a voice presentation over them. A few special effects polished it up quite nicely. For a first attempt, I’m pleased with the result.