Mark DuBois Weblog

We are now in the second week of the semester. I have a challenge for students in my CMWEB classes. I put together a brief slideshow (using PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate) to include audio and transitions. This information came mostly from a Time Magazine article I read over the weekend (dealing with YouTube). Ok, it took me roughly 2 hours to do a little research, prepare the PowerPoint slides, import the slides into Captivate, select the audio (I have an account with Soundzabound and this audio is ok to use on the WWW). Your challenge, should you decide to accept it is to do something similar in HTML5. Keep track of your hours to duplicate this as well. You can use any framework, CSS, JS, and new elements (like <canvas>) that you want. The resulting web page needs to include audio which plays throughout (with the ability to turn it on or off). The text needs to show some sort of transition effect (like the fade in this example). Read more »