With digital and video cameras finding a welcome home in classrooms you could just use the computer’s built-in slideshow features but it might be better to give production over to the children with SlideShow. This lets you combine photos, graphics, movies and sound and the end product could be a photo story in literacy, a sound walk through a school or a presentation of a science investigation.
Pictures, movies and sounds are kept in a library window, a database from which you drag these onto a timeline, although you can force SlideShow to look for files in other locations by clicking on the Browse button and navigating to the folder of your choice. You can add empty frames, supplementing with just text or sounds, or change the position of slides by dragging them where you want them.
Click on each picture frame and you can add text changing font, colour, size or position and choose from a range transition effects to the next slide. You can also add sound effects to pictures, each frame can have its own sound file or you could record a narrative – just change the duration number and you can change the effect. Icons on the timeline allow you to keep track of what you’ve added.
You can even intersperse your slides with a video clip. This does increase the size of a presentation and you can’t add text, sound or change its length – but for this application these controls aren’t necessary.
When you’re finished the presentation you can preview it and then export it as a movie with or without the complementary FilmShow.
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Contacts and prices
Slideshow
Kudlian Soft Stand M100
Tel: 07000 583542
www.kudlian.net
Price: £35 (single user)
System requirements: PC/Mac
Ages: 6+
Ratings
Ease of use 4
Fitness for purpose 5
Value for money 4
Overall 4
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