.AstroPlayer
Following our experiences in Leiden and Oxford, we took the decision to put the talks from .Astronomy 4 online afterwards rather than stream them live. This was partly for technical/logistical reasons but also because I knew we could provide a better, curated, experience.
During the talks I recorded audio directly from the planetarium sound system and video with my digital camera from the back. I also obtained the original slides from the speakers and the tweet-stream from Geert Barentsen. In the week after Heidelberg I wrote a Javascript-based talk player which synchronises the audio with static images of the slides, some video demos, tweets and useful links/notes. It has some extra bells and whistles such as keyboard controls (spacebar for pause/play and cursor keys to move through the slides) and fullscreen mode in modern browsers.
Give the .AstroPlayer a go by watching Kevin Govender and Michelle Borkin‘s talks online. The scheduled talks from Heidelberg are now appearing on the website.
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[...] at the conference, and links to the great talks we heard. Stuart did an awesome jon on creating a nifty Javascript-based tool that syncs up the slides of the talks with the audio, tweets and other content, such as links. [...]