When you need to engage your students before a class starts, you know it is not an easy matter. The only possible solution for this, is to create a looping introduction in PowerPoint.
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Ellen Finkelstein, author of How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2007, explains ...
Presentations have come out of the dark ages in recent times, and there are a glut of powerful web applications that will help you to create multimedia design spectaculars in no time. MixerCast is one such service.
The very notion that a presentation has to equal a ...
Adding animation to your presentations can help to bring your slides to life, if done with discretion. On the other hand, overdoing it can make an uninteresting presentation tacky and needlessly cluttered. In this short article from ProPoint Graphics you can find out about the vital ...
Interface design and the tools we use to interact with our computers have moved forward in recent years, and continue to do so. It is no longer a case of having simply to interact with our computers through a keyboard and mouse.
While those tools remain ...
Ovation is a new presentation software which allows non-technical presenters to add strong visual impact, animation effects and sound in a completely automated way.
Existing PowerPoint presentations can be imported into Ovation and converted into fancy-looking shows with only a few mouse clicks.
Ovation gets the existing ...
In PowerPoint, you can combine text, sound, and motion on one slide or throughout a presentation.
Not all presentations need multimedia, and very few presentations need media of any type on every slide. ...
A little animation in the right place can raise a presentation from good to great.
A compelling animated opening sequence can draw an audience into your presentation.
Animation that illustrates a complex process can improve understanding.
Screen recordings (video of a running application or Web ...
The best software training programs allow new users to learn by doing. But even a training program based on hands-on experience benefits from letting the new user of a software product “grok” how the product works by watching someone demonstrate the product.
Wink, a new screen ...
Here it is, another full basket of great tasty tools, online services and resources that I have been testing and experimenting with during the past week.
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