Assignment 7 - Showbeyond, Show yourself!

Description of Assignment 7:

     Create your own photostory or slideshow by Showbeyond, adding title and background music.

Showbeyond is an online photo slideshow story creator and sharing community. Actually, this is really an assighment that make me feel a kind of reflection. When selecting each slide, adding text to the slide, choosing proper background music, it is just a course of recalling based on the topic of photostory. Photostory, in IT644, Showbeyond is the another tool that used for creating a photostory. The first tool for creating self-photostory in IT644 is assignment 1 which you can see my reflection on the post of Assignment 1 in this blogfolio. Although Showbeyond has the similiar or even the same function as Photostory the tool, it still gets its features.

Feature 1:

Showbeyond is easier to operate. As a online tool, you do not need to download anything for creating the slideshow story. What you have to do is only preparation your photoes/ pictures, and UPLOAD.

Feature 2:

Showbeyond provides us another simple way to create the electronic portfolio. The slideshow of the growth of panda that Dr. Yuen showed us in class leaves me a deep impression, which fully illustrates the function of Showbeyond in instruction. It shows us that the Showbeyond could be used as a kind of electronic portfolio to share artifacts with us. If you choose Showbeyond as the collection of artifacts, the electronic portfolio could become easier.  With selection of picuture of artifacts, and collate some texts, your electronic portfolio created by Showbeyond could also be outstanding!

Feature3:

Showbeyond could also be an strong tutorial slideshow. In different field of study, there must be many concepts related with proceture, development, and process. Just because the slideshow feature, Showbeyond could be used to show the development of history, the procedure of production, the process of movement, etc. In this way, it makes the instructional procedure attactive, colorful, and vivid. When doing this assignment, I thought that using Showbeyond could be a good way to introduce the history of English literature, with each slideshow of different developing period in English literature. For students in English, clarify the periods of English literature is always an difficult thing by just reviewing textbook. With Showbeyond, the history would be presented clearly and directly in front of learners, better than any form or thick textbook.

(But for the comparison between Showbeyond and Photostory the software in Assignment 1, I did not choose to create the slideshow of English literature. What I have done in this assignment is still using the collection of photoes, with background music. Obviously, Showbeyond looks more simple but professional in my assignment 7 than in assignment 1)

However, I think there is a small limitation for Showbeyond. The background template is all in the grey or black-white color tone. I just wonder that whether there could a function of Showbeyond that allow users to change the background into self-pictures or photoes, which may make the slideshow more personal.