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Slide Drive

Speaking of new kinds of content (which I’ve been doing a lot), David Seifreid has built a working prototype of a new slideshow tool that combines deck.js with an HTML5 audio player.  You can check out a demo at http://software-carpentry.org/slide-drive/index.html, or grab the source from https://github.com/dseif/slide-drive. Slides are pure HTML like this:

<section popcorn-slideshow="24">
  <h2>Solution</h2>
  <p>Short intensive workshops</p>
  <div>
    Our solution combines short, intensive workshops...
  </div>
  <div popcorn-slideshow="27">
    <p>Plus self-paced online instruction</p>
    <div>
      ...with self-paced online instruction.
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

which combines slide pages and transcripts in a single file suitable for diffing and merging. (Images are still in external files, but I can live with that.) You can pause the slideshow at any point to select and copy the content (something you definitely can’t do with a video), and we’ll add support for translations into other languages and so on.

Many thanks to David for pulling this together; please let us know what you think.

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  1. February 15th, 2012 at 16:50 | #1

    Very nice!

    It would be cool if the display width would match my browser window, as I am currently getting a scroll bar at the bottom in Firefox 10, regardless of my attempts to zoom in or out on the material.

  2. Alecia
    February 15th, 2012 at 16:57 | #2

    That’s great! Especially the transcript that accompanies the audio – A+

    Will this format work with an animated screen capture, or slides only?

  3. Rick
    February 15th, 2012 at 18:12 | #3

    This is great, I didn’t think I could love deck.js anymore!

  4. February 17th, 2012 at 21:30 | #4

    Wow, this is awesome!

  5. Mike Zwarts
    February 19th, 2012 at 16:40 | #5

    Would this work with a blogging service like blogger or tumblr?

    • Greg Wilson
      February 20th, 2012 at 02:05 | #6

      Not sure what you mean by “work with” — do you mean, could we embed slideshows in blog posts hosted on those platforms? If so, the answer is “I hope so” — we’re hoping to embed them in WordPress posts.

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