January 11, 2008
Feedshow Link Presenter - Testing Audience Synch
Last weekend, I had a bit of a tinker with my Feedshow link presenter, the hopefully OUseful utility that lets you present a series of web pages from a bookmark list RSS feed. The result was a couple of lines of code that allow members of the audience who are following the show to synch their view with that of the lead presenter.
A more advanced dev version of Feedshow has quite a few more bells and whistles, but I thought I'd post the initial version here just in case anyone fancies have a quick Friday play, and maybe identifying any 'issues' before I push the richer version...;-)
Anyway, here's what's in store if you go to http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/feedshow/social.php.
Launching the slideshow gives you a master view (as opposed to the user view). Clicking on the "Splash" button in the master view gives this page - a shortened link to the client/user view of the current slideshow:
(The + in the name distinguishes this version from the non-synching original version... If the + isn't there, you're using the old version, which doesn't have the synch functionality...)
Audience members should follow the shortened Snipr link to see the show...
To start running through the bookmarked links that have been pulled in to the presenter from the show RSS feed, click on the Current button. Move through the links that make up the show using the forward and back links. The text box lets you enter an arbitrary URL; click Go to visit it. Clicking Current will be you back to the current page item in the feedshow.
Here's the user view (the one you get from following the shortened URL):
The synch button will synch the client's view with the presenter's view. (NB At the moment, clients can't synch to the main presenter's "Go" pages - in the dev version they can...). Users can click forward and back through the links in the presentation at will, but clicking Synch will bring them back into synch with the main presenter.
Client users can also browse arbitrary links via the text box/Go route, but as yet there is no way sharing this back with the main presenter (should there be?)
Here's the URL again: http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/feedshow/social.php
If anyone does have a few spare mins and fancies having a quick play/test, I'd appreciate any comments. At the moment I've only tested the app in FLock on a Mac...
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Tags: feedshow, feed presenter, link presenter
Posted by ajh59 at January 11, 2008 03:29 PM