How to Build a Slidecast

Professor Wm PitzerIMC-693H

West Virginia University

What is aslidecast?

Go to www.slideshare.netand sign up for a free account.

Watch some of my slidecasts at www.slideshare.net/wmpitzer

Open an accounton slideshare.net

Create yourpresentation

I normally save my presentation as a PDF first, then upload to slideshare.

Acrobat’s“magic dust”

A presentation I did in Keynote and saved as a PDF. File size = 7.5 Mb

Open presentation in Acrobat and select Document/Reduce File Size

from the main menu.

Make compatible with later versions of Acrobat to gain larger reduction in file size. I

use 9.0 setting.

Save the file. You will get a prompt to replace existing file if you don’t rename the

reduced file.

This is a common warning: “image masks not downsampled.”

Just click OK and ignore.

After applying the “magic dust” in Acrobat the file size = 2.6 Mb

Upload yourpresentationto slideshare

Click to upload file

Select file to upload

Record your voiceoveras an MP3 file

Preset tracks

Recording controls

Select appropriate

track

Hide windows you don’t need.

GarageBand makes it easy to record in

packets.

Export asMP3

Save the file to your folder. You should also save the GarageBand

project for future editing purposes.

Upload MP3 fileto Slideshare

Select this tab in window

Prompt to load MP3 file

Pick file and click “open”

This may take a while...

When upload is finished you will see this

message.

Slidecast is pre-formatted

with your audio file.

2. Click and drag “audio selector” to

mark where the first slide ends on the

timeline.

1. Play audio to where you want it to stop for first slide, then pause

audio.

3. Click on next slide to select it in the “slide selector.”

4. Repeat steps 1 & 2 for second slide.

Repeat steps 1 & 2 for all the slides.

Always listen to your slidecast to make sure it’s working

properly before sharing it with your students.

How to Build a Slidecast

Thanks, let me know if you have questions:@newsgraphics

wmpitzer@infoartz.com