Father Tuck's Dolly Dear Series "Little Boy Blue"

I recently taught a Microsoft PowerPoint class (my second time) and could not resist giving people who enjoyed the creativity and photo sharing possibilities of PowerPoint some other options.

One of them I recalled from the glorious 23 Things project is Picture Trail. This free site allows you to create and share slide slows. The backgrounds and framing are a bit glitzy but the site is easy to use and nice for some light, entertaining shows.

I scanned this old booklet of my mom's to test it out. Mom could recite so many poems by heart, a product of a 1930s schooling which served her well.

Happy Trails!

Another Animoto Short

I really like Animoto and am suggesting we use it for pictures of an in-construction building and a building in the remodel process for our official web site. Here is another Animoto short, set to another type of music from their music selections. I like the music group's name "Whiskey Priest" and the song is lovely too. Notice how differently the animation rolls through the photos (from my Love, Mom clip), so there really is an interesting variety to be had.

Love, Mom

Well, I'll be. I finally got it to work. I'm not sure if using a different computer helped, or if I didn't see something obvious, but there she is, sweet lil mom.

Animoto's Kind Support

Thanks to the folks at Animoto for trying to help resolve my problems using Animoto. They suggested I update my Adobe Flash Player and try the Firefox browser.

As it turns out I have the most up to date version of Adobe Flash, so that's all good. Since I use my laptop for posting and for all my picture files, I don't want to use precious drive space on the installation of an alternate browser.

Even if I can't use the Animoto feature, I'd encourage others to give it a try. It looks to be a very unique and dynamic way of making static photographs into something much more than a slide show.

For all the programs a library does all year long, it would be a great advertisement and fun way to show what happens at libraries besides the daily checking in and out of hundreds of books, the answering of every question under the sun, and the pampering of wayward copy machines. Libraries are waaay beyond cool. Animoto can help show that off.