I want to show the observations in my project as a slideshow on my laptop at a table outdoors outside a closed nature center. I have shown videos this way before and that part works. I was shown how to make the project grid of photos into a slideshow by adding _slideshow to usage stats. It is very very slow. How can you adjust that?
I like the first slides, but wonder if there is a way to skip the “Top Observers”? I am experimenting with how to use iNaturalist to draw in people passing by or viewing at a museum who may not rush out to download the app. Can you give me suggestions or good examples of use of iNat in this way? Thanks. Katie
This was created for the National Park Service Centennial BioBlitz, for display on a jumbotron in Washington, DC and it hasn’t really been developed since. There is no way to control or adjust it.
The slideshow feature worked but was slow with more photos than optimal/page for a laptop display. I am wondering if there would be objection to creating one’s own powerpoint or google-slides presentation using the iNat logo frame and counts of obs/species/observers/etc as a background, using photos uploaded to iNat with cc permission and, as I usually do, asking the photographer. This most likely infringes on iNat copyright and I would not do without perission, but just wondering.
Katie
I have taken screen shots of iNaturalist observations to show on powerpoint and google-slides. Checking copyright permissions is important, as you stated. I really don’t see the harm in it. Especially so people see that there is an entire platform on iNaturalist.
I suggest including screenshots that show how people interact with each other - determining an identification (especially when the original poster did not know what it was), even the comments that discuss what is going on in the photo or if a person think that the original poster may have found something particularly interesting.