The new Google Slides Q&A feature is getting a lot of interest: jump into Presenter mode from any slide, and you can create a simple web page, with a short URL, that your audience can visit to:
see the questions others are asking
vote others’ questions up or down with simple thumbs up/down icons
ask their own questions – anonymously if they wish
It started off as Docs, then became Drive as it became capable of storing any uploaded file, like a large “thumb drive” or memory stick. To avoid clutter, some of the options only appear when you select things, or appear when you right-click. And that means it’s sometimes underestimated.
This one-page Cheat Sheet provides a good overview of what’s there – and where it is.
Users of the Google Chrome browser on PCs, Laptops and Netbooks should note that if they receive a message that they need to update Flash; they could try using Internet Explorer browser as a work-around.
Users of iPads and Chromebooks should not experience any problems with this issue.
I.T will be updating the Chrome browser in September which will use a new secure version of Flash.
YouTube’s for sharing videos, right? So that big Upload button in my YouTube account will be for uploading video files. What else could it be for?
The surprising answer is that it’s now a place we can go to not just upload videos we’ve already made, but upload images and use them to create new video slideshows. And those slideshows seem to be much more accessible, displaying on mobile phones and tablets, including Apple ones, when PhotoPeach’s Flash-based slideshows don’t work. If you’ve used PhotoPeach, you’ll find the process is very similar:
upload your images
arrange them as required
add music if you want
tweak timing, slide effect and transition as required – your changes preview immediately
upload the video you’ve made
If you’d like to go further, you can use the YouTube Video Editor, accessed in the same place, to edit your slideshow videos in a simple editor that’s very similar to MovieMaker.
Embedding YouTube videos in your WordPress site is just a matter of pasting the video URL (web page address) into the blog post where you want it to appear. All going well, you’ll see the embedded video in the editor, but this may depend on your browser.
