flickr
Slideoo is an interesting little tool that allows you to create horizontal photo slideshows from Flickr photos. The interface allows you to select from public images and define the width of the slide show and the image size. The example below is from one of my Flickr photo sets and the image size is medium. Notice the slider at the bottom of the image. Click and drag the slider to view the images.
Last June I wrote about PicLens. It is an immersive image viewing tool that allows you to share images from web sites in a full screen mode. During the winter break I have been spending some time playing around with it again. It is a browser plugin that allows you to display images on web pages in a full screen mode. For example if you visit a Flickr photo set, you have the option of displaying the set as a full screen slide show. Another nice example is to search for images in Google and then present them full screen via the plugin. I have been using the plug-in to make presentations to staff and parents. My workflow is to quickly mock up any text slides I need in Keynote and export them as JPEGs and then post to a Flickr photo set along with any images I want to share. Not many bullet points but mostly images that frame the presentation and my discussion.
In addition to the browser plug-in, the folks at PicLens have also created a Wordpress plug-in that allows you to provide the same experience from your weblog and it does not require that visitors have the browser plug-in installed. For example the images below are some recent shots from a trip to a local air museum. Follow the link below for an example.
