#vuvox

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[danehoward]

Remembering the camping trip...

We're going to have to go camping again very soon. Henry Cowell Campground was really good to us.

[d4didier]

Portfolio

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[thesocialmania-blog]

Vuvox

Present and share you media in a new way.

VUVOX allows to mix, create and blend videos, photos and music.

With EXPRESS you choose a style and link it to a RSS feeds with the content.

COLLAGE offers Drag and Drop, interactive media hot spots and a cut-out tool for compositing of photos and videos. Usable for among others dynamic interactive panoramas with hot-spots.

Features:

Image Cut-out and Masking tools

Layer positioning and Compositing

Interactive 'Hot-spots', providing links to media, text or other websites

Ability to add rich media details

Text and Soundtrack

STUDIO provides some presentation formats that allow great freedom in personalization.

The new media can be embedded in pages or viewed directly.

After playing a bit with the interesting tools I have to stress that Vuvox is still Beta!

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Here's an example (Vuvox Express showing Engadget RSS content):

[teaoverthinker]

VuVox performs Fix You acapella (by liptrill)

[revolutionizeed-blog]

Use multimedia creatively with Vuvox

I'm using Vuvox for a mini-class that I'm taking online about some really cool tools to use in education.  Vuvox seems to be something that would be really useful, especially with creative students.  You take any form of multimedia and mix them together in something similar to a cross between a slideshow and a timeline.  Students could use it to make a presentation, make a timeline, show research on a topic, show results from an experiment, and much more.  Seems like something that can be easily adapted to multiple uses. 

Check out my Vuvox slide about what motivates students here!

[gizn-blog]

[rhetoricaldesign-blog]

Vuvox: An Alternative to PowerPoint

http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/0300368255

This is a Vuvox presentation that I made for one of my classes last semester.  As a presentation tool, it's a creative alternative to PowerPoint.  Vuvox is primarily a visual medium.  The user scans from left to right with the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen to view an entire panorama.  Text can be included alongside the visuals, or the creator can chose to make their presentation more interactive and have the user click on links within the presentation that call up floating textual descriptions. 

"In a business setting, a PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words, which is about eight seconds' worth of silent reading material. With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed. Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequentiality, one damn slide after another. When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships. Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side. Often, the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity and understanding. This is especially so for statistical data, where the fundamental analytical act is to make comparisons." (Edward Tufte)

Because this medium places more focus on images rather than bullet points (which will probably be covered by the oral portion of a presentation anyway, and are rather pointless), the information being communicated may be more memorable to the viewer, and thus an interesting alternative to predictable PowerPoint presentations.  However, this type of presentation would work best only when used with meaningful images--a bunch of generic stock photos that hold minimal meaning would be out of place here.  But because they are so often used, should we consider that visuals for the sake of visuals is pretty pointless?