DD Shift

I’m hearing the song “Smile” by Lily Allen.

To satisfy a requirement for my course, and to balance out the bad karma from this song that is stuck in my head, I have put together an online image slide show of smiles. I put it together using Bubbleshare. It was pretty easy to do. It uses images that sport the creative-commons attribution+non-commercial use license.

Smile Slideshow

I have a couple of complaints, in general, about this process.

1. You can’t seem to copy the share code in Firefox from Bubbleshare. You have to use Internet Explorer. I’m not a fan of IE.
2. When I try to embed the slideshow here (or any flash-based video files) into Edublogs, Edublog makes a link to the item rather than actually displaying it. What is the point of having “Add media” buttons if they don’t actually add the media for display in your blog? I have been annoyed with this poorly managed feature for quite a few posts now. I want to EMBED not LINK. I can make my own links. I don’t need a special media/video button for this. If you have advice on how to EMBED and not LINK, please leave a comment.

At this point, I don’t actually know how I would use slideshows to support the software development process in my computer science class. If you have ideas, please feel free to post them.

Image Citation:

silkegb (2008). Have a Chicken Soup and Smile. in Flickr. Retrieved on August 2, 2008 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/silkegb/2697899131/. Used respectfully under the creative commons attribution+non-commercial use license.

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