Super Slide – Interview: Song Ye

Song Ye is based at Staffordshire University and is currently working on the Super Slide project…

What is Super Slide?

An application to integrate video and slide presentations for tutors to provide online materials to their students.

What problems/issues is Super Slide tackling?

The main problem at the moment is that we are such a small team that if we have problems we can spend quite a long time trying to find the answers from other sources, such as the internet.

How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?

We are looking for forums for people to share ideas, based on the technology they are using so it is easier to find people who could help and we don’t have to keep asking the same questions everyone else has asked before us.

What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?

We have been using JISC mailing lists, but otherwise I just browse through forums for answers, rather than registering for them.

What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?

Nothing springs to mind, as I am pretty much fully focussed on our project at the moment!