Active Learning with PowerPoint #vmvdlt

Active Learning with PowerPoint. A tutorial designed to help you capitalize on those aspects of PowerPoint that lend themselves best to engaging students' interests.

http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpoint/

Microsoft Product keys

 

Track down lost Microsoft product keys with ProduKey

Find your lost key for any properly installed Microsoft product with the help of this free tool.

Instructions:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/quick-tip-track-down-lost-microsoft-product-keys-with-produkey/7579?tag=nl.e098&s_cid=e098&ttag=e098

Download

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

PowerPoint - will not proceed to next slide

Found out today that if the PowerPoint is set to Kiosk mode (In Office 2010 buried in Slide Show > Set up slide show > Show slide type) then it will only display the first slide and clicking (or using arrows) to go to the next slide doesn't work

PowerPoint Hyperlink error (comma in title)

I couldn't believe this until I read that it is a known issue. If you use hyperlinking in PowerPoint (linking from one slide to another) and you have a comma in the heading of the destination slide, the hyperlink won't work.

There's some documentation at (so they know about it!)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818853

 

 

Microsoft Tech Ed Online 2010

http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand

Videos from the Microsoft Tech Ed - link from Paul Lo

Screen Recorders

After a post on givaway of the day http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ had  feedback about free screen recorders

Two that came up were

1. Cam studio (open source) http://camstudio.org/ and


2. the online  Screenr http://www.screenr.com

PowerPoint: Adding an animated clock

http://screenr.com/uQg

(other effects too)

I guess I'm going to see a lot of these at the next conference!!

Ways To Jazz Up A Virtual Classroom

A link from Joyce

http://www.slideshare.net/shend5/ways-to-jazz-up-a-virtual-classroom

The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009

From JS:

Lots of icons to give you ideas for your own ones.

http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/

Add a Newspaper clipping

From JS.

A neat way to show some text as a newspaper clipping...

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Freeware (donationware) Video Converter

JJ has found a video converter

Huang, S. (2009) MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder. Retrieved June 17, 2009 from http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

PowerPoint 2007 - multiple monitors swap display

Had an issue when using multiple monitors. When using a monitor attached to my laptop the presentation displayed on the laptop not the external monitor.

Searching the we came up with lots of false hits... and the answer is actually quite simple in 2007.

Use the Slide Show tab and in the Monitor part of the ribbon change the "Show Presentation on" to "Monitor 2..."

No wonder there is no online help !!!

Death by PowerPoint (SlideShare)

Not that I agree with everything said (e.g. suits visual learners - of which I am one), but gives you something to think about/discuss.

[slideshare id=85551&doc=death-by-powerpoint4344]

Video files (offline)

Not sure about the legality, but for students (and you) to use youTube videos (offline) in presentations (especially if your organisation has a firewall that blocks YouTube) you can try http://www.videodownloadx.com/ which will allow them to download the videos.

A commentary of the relevance of images in a presentation

Although imagine if it was just John McCain in front of a blank screen - would this be better or worse??

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/09/john-mccains-background-visuals.html

Web 2.0 presentation

I have posted my Web 2.0 panel presentation into slideshare

[slideshare id=505753&doc=2008verhaartnaccqweb20m-1215603509087482-8]

| View | Upload your own

Flash ActionScript: Convert PPT to SWF

Zheng, S. (2005) How to Convert PowerPoint to Flash Manually. Retrieved February 27, 2008 from http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2005/09/02/how-to-convert-powerpoint-to-flash-manually

For those who like coding in ActionScript (if you're not into programming you will probably want a converter).. let me know if you can find a good free one.

Floptical shrinks powerpoint

Inserting images into PowerPoint can increase the size of your file heaps. So if you want to shrink the file get PowerPoint to compress the image.

1. Click on the image (Well thats pretty obvious :)  and resize by dragging corner handles - dragging on the top and side ones will usually give you short fat bunnies or long thin ones).


2. Click on the Format tab (Office 2007). On the top left you will see Compress Pictures.. click it and if you click [Ok] all your images will be shrunk.

•  Notes:
  
  
  
  • You may like to check the file sizes before and after using windows explorer.
  
  
  • Thanks to Joyce for pointing this out...