E Learning: Powerpoint sharing services make Learning Objects redundant

There are a number of new PowerPoint sharing services that could have a huge impact on the sadly misguided attempts by Vocational Education organisations to create a sharing model for educational content through the use of learning objects. These PowerPoint sites will no doubt succeed where what has gone before will fade away as will their various proponents. They were misguided because they chose about the most complex, difficult to understand and implement model for content sharing possible with scant regard for the abilities of those expected to create them. It was so complex it required it's own language and tools to create. Of course this means teachers cant do it. Perhaps that was the hidden agenda? Anyway, services like Zentation, which i think has huge potential allow us mere mortals to synchronize video recorded to PowerPoint slides in a manner that was recently the exclusive domain of services like Videolinq in Queensland for whom, by the way, I have the highest, admiration. But they will need to take stock, because this Web 2 version of their service makes it easy for anyone to replicate what they have been doing for years. Have a look at this for an example.
This and other examples pull in their slides from a service called Slideshare which is very interesting in it's own right. Another to look at with a similar model is AuthorStream
Zentation from an original post on MasterNewMedia