Ich habe doch! mein Slideshow eingebettet! Here is the embedded Smile slideshow:

BubbleShare: Share photos – Play some Online Games.

To embed you actually have to copy the embedding code from the website, and then use the HTML (not the visual) editor for your blog to insert the embedding code. It’s kind of a pain in the neck. It’s not very Web 2.0-ish (fast content creation).

Now that I can embed video media, I am invincible!! Excellent…

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.

I found this very amusing flowchart at Flickr by TimmyCorkery:

When teaching students about program flowcharting, this would be a humorous, but instructive example for them to review.  We could look at the aspects of the flowchart that are done correctly and also those things that are done incorrectly.  This is certainly much simpler than my creating my own silly flowchart to amuse the kids while teaching them a useful method of documenting programming processes.

With Flickr, I could have the students actually create their own flowcharts, digitalize them, upload them, and then mark the different symbols in the flowcharts to indicate what sort of roles they play.  I didn’t know that Flickr had the ability to add hotspots and tags to make images more useful.  This would give them the chance to reflect back on what they had created and also provide examples for future students.

Further, Flickr allows you to add Creative Commons licensing to your images so that you can let the world know what you want to be done with the images.  Top notch!