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I have had great luck with PowerPoint and music for slide shows.  I have not used 
Google's Picasa, so I can't say what the results might be; however, I have used up 
to 100 pictures for a PPT slide show BUT I would encourage the student to remember 
that despite how great the slides are and how wonderful the event might be, the 
audience will soon grow tired of a lengthy program (even with "high tech" a slide 
show is still a slide show!!  Remember those boring vacation slide presentations 
your family / neighbors required you to sit through during the 60's and 70's????)

I had to eliminate about 150 slides from my students' project and just put in the 
top 100 with a presentation time of about 5-10 seconds per slide.  This created a 
program that was about 22 minutes long--still much longer than I wanted but I had 
to make sure that all of the students had their slides / work represented in the 
program.  I still had people complain that the program was too long, even though it 
was 10 minutes shorter than the previous librarian had presented the year before.

My suggestions:  Keep the program short.  Use limited special effects (spins, 
fades, etc.). Watch for "white" screens--use backgrounds that don't "blind the 
audience" if they are watching in a darkened room. Keep the music flowing 
throughout---and be mindful of copyright issues (public performances). If there are 
written words, allow for slower readers (add extra seconds to the slide). Credit 
your sources for anything you use---it's a great way to model proper use of other's 
materials, even when it's not going to be distributed or used for a grade!

Just some suggestions....

~Shonda

Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing 
the impossible."
 ~St. Francis of Assisi
sbrisco@fwcds.org
http://www.fwcds.org/campus/libraries/default.asp
>>> "Dr. Mary Ann Bell" <mbe11@EARTHLINK.NET> 12/30/05 10:22 AM >>>
I just got this question from a student:

Would you please give me some computer software  advice?  I am going to 
attempt to put together a slide show for my parent's  anniversary party. 
What type of software would be the simplest with good  results.  I have 
already scanned about 300 pictures, and now I would like  to sequence 
them to some music.

I suggested Powerpoint of course, and also thought she might like 
Google's Picasa, though  I cannot tell if it manages sound as well as 
images... But what am I overlooking? Thanks in advance, Mary Ann

-- 
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"Try curiosity!"  Dorothy Parker
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Dr. Mary Ann Bell
Assistant Professor 
School of Library Science
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX
mbe11@earthlink.net
lis_mah@shsu.edu 

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