Good audio slide shows tell a story. Audio helps set the mood, and background sound and narrative add a web-friendly dimension.

This Denver Post slide show on the Stock Show gave Kathryn Osler a venue to show more than the single image that appeared in print. The slide show was built in SoundSlides.

For Feb. 22, please complete a slide show (in the SlideShowPro Director Demo gallery or within your own gallery) consisting of 14-18 photos complete with cutlines. Audio is optional, but you can use something as simple as as royalty-free music. Go ahead and delete your sample and test albums in the SlideShowPro Director dashboard. Instructions for using SSP Director are here.

For Feb. 29, please submit a 150-200 500 word story, news item or blog posting to the Boulder edition of YourHub.com. Registration is required. We will review the Your Hub postings. Feel free to replicate/use one of your two weekly posts to your blogger.com blog, however you must also post to your blog about your experience with YourHub.

SlideShowPro and SoundSlides are Flash-based slideshow builders. SlideShowPro requires Macromedia Flash, and works with Macs. SoundSlides is a standalone program (works wthout the Flash program), and is PC and Mac compatible.

The web-friendly interface for SlideShowPro is SlideShowPro Director, and is what you used in class. It works via a web browser on Macs and PCs.

The embed code for your DigitalNewsroom.net gallery may require some tweaking to post on Blogger.com. Remember that every tag needs an opening and a closing (except for breaks and paragraphs). Some platforms (like WordPress) are very forgiving when it comes to HTML errors. Blogger.com is strict, so that means you’ll have to pay attention to the embed tags.