Slideshare Slidecast Lectures Weeks 6-8

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These are the recorded lectures that I have made as Slideshare slidecasts. I have found this way of making online lectures more satisfying than using Articulate (see my earlier blog post here). I used an Edirol R-09 audio recorder like a dictation machine without a microphone. It felt much more natural than recording the voiceover for one slide at a time. I recorded the lecture where I could in one go, did a bit of editing in Audition and then uploaded the audio to the Internet Archive and the PowerPoint slides to Slideshare in the normal way. You then have to synchronize the audio to each slide which is very easy to do. This create's a number of formats - you have the audio as a podcast, the slides as a slidecast and the slides available to download. The Slideshare service works very well.

Which format do you prefer - Articulate or Slideshare sharecast?

What I haven't addressed is whether or not this is the best way of transferring knowledge - to simply make a recorded lecture. What I think I might have to do is re-think how to communicate the lecture content that best makes use of online communication media and the way that students would like to engage with this content - what do you think?