5 "E"s Necessary for E-Learning PowerPoint Presentation

What you should master to make a knocking e-learning PowerPoint presentation for easy distribution and flexible reuse

Affordable and accessible, e-Learning is seizing a large portion of learning activities both in schools and in corporations. And the rapid growth of Internet and multimedia technologies including PowerPoint, flash, video and DVD, contributes a great to e-Learning in making it available to a multitude of learners with ease and flexibility. Among the most popular e-Learning technologies, PowerPoint-based tools are taking great popularity in formal academic and industry education. Here we sum up 5 tips (herein as 5 Es as each begins with Letter E) that should be kept in mind when making an e-Learning PowerPoint presentation. The 5 necessaries for an E-Learning presentation are listed below:

1. Engaging

"Engaging" is to the content. Your e-Learning PowerPoint presentation must include engaging content capable of capturing the learners at the very first time. Avoid dulling your presentation by the so-called Death by PowerPoint, i.e. you should organize the whole story in a reasonable way - clear and brief rather than random and tedious. If it is a course presentation on Science, for example, you can use key phrases or words or graphics instead of complete long sentences to describe the topic, limit the number of slides to the most concise extent, put each title on the top of every slide for quick navigation, contrast different texts by a shift of colors, and apply animations and transitions sparingly to title messages (not to the text part) of the presentation.
A presentation with several dynamic effects can catch their eyes better than a plain one consisting only static pictures and texts, but too many effects will degrade it to a distraction. So think carefully before adding in a thrilling sound or movie clip to your e-Learning presentation.

2. Evocative

"Evocative" means that the messages in your e-Learning presentation can evoke a positive response when conveyed to the learners. What you convey is what they are right in need. To make that, you must take a survey to ensure the topic you are going to talk by the presentation makes sense, and must plan how to present it in a way that appeals to the learners.
Suggestions: rehearse the presentation until perfect before you deliver it. You can practice it in a rehearsal room as if the learners were there, or ask someone as audience to give you his/her advice.

3. Efficient

"Efficient" here is to the delivery of your e-Learning presentation. You made a wonderful learning item, but it failed to reach the target learners because they couldn't open the PowerPoint presentation. That is a lack of efficiency. As we know, files generated by PowerPoint are often too clumsy and fragile to carry via the Internet. To make it an easy access to the learners, you can upload the e-Learning presentation to the Web (an authorized website or your blog) for sharing online, or burn it to DVD as endurable disc handouts using software like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.
Related: 6 Approaches to Putting PowerPoint on Web

4. Enjoyable

"Enjoyable" indicates the e-Learning experience by your presentation. E-Learning itself is a convenient and flexible learning method, self-paced and available almost 24x7, without boundary of time and space. E-learning stuff on a PowerPoint presentation, however, is not a nice layout for learning community on the Web. If you want an interactive impact of your e-Learning presentation, then why not convert it to one of the most popular media formats throughout the Internet - flash video? That is a good way to show a complete look of your presentation online, since a direct link of PowerPoint to the Web may fail to retain all the dynamic effects like embedded sounds, movie clips as well as animations and transitions. Tools that can help transfer your e-Learning presentation to flash video include Moyea PPT4Web Converter, capable of creating a PowerPoint-based FLV file supportable by Adobe Flash Player and many other flash players.
Then, it becomes a cinch for you to put and share the hitless e-Learning PPT video at a learning community, or your teaching blog. Your students and other target learners can enjoy it more by a free exchange of ideas as comments on the slick PowerPoint video.

5. Easy

"Easy" refers to two: the messages of your e-Learning presentation are easy to understand, while the content is easy to get. To put it straight, you should on the one hand compose the learning stuff, especially those with deep thoughts, in a simple manner that doesn't confuse a learner. On the other hand, make accessible copies of the presentation, via a CD-ROM, DVD, video or PDF, for later reuse by yourself and for the benefit of those involved who request a review of it.
For your convenience of reference:
To burn your e-Learning presentation to CD or DVD, see in the post How to Burn PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) to CD or DVD
To save your presentation to PDF, go to Export Office Applications to PDF

E-Learning, a green method of learning, does brings us great convenience and opportunity these years. Bear in your mind the 5 Es - Engaging, Evocative, Efficient, Enjoyable and Easy as mentioned above to make an successful e-Learning course based on presentation.

Enhance E-learning with MS PowerPoint, DVD, Video & PDF

Still wondering how to draw those idle-minded students back from a carefree summer holiday? Integrating your class with multimedia technology should be a wise practice. To engage new and returning students in this new school year, use MS PowerPoint to plan your class presentation and finalize it in DVD, Video or PDF to enhance e-learning content distribution.

Plan a lecture in PowerPoint
You can utilize Microsoft PowerPoint for a rapid creation of lecture presentation that is dynamic with animations, art clips, pictures, tables, sounds, video clips and more. If you are at a loss when coming to how to make a good class presentation, get an idea here in "Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation", or find out more tips at MS Office At School Resources. As to class PowerPoint template, collect some classic packs from this Free Education PowerPoint Templates. Whether it is a literary story or a new science lesson, the smart authoring tool can help make an engaging learning experience for students in the classroom. Unfortunately, a lecture presentation in PowerPoint is not friendly to remote distribution or after-class communication. To share your course ideas better with eager students, you have to shape it to a more accessible media format such as DVD, video and PDF that are more flexible for cross platform use.

Enhance it by performing one of the following:

Burn the PowerPoint course presentation to DVD
Many teachers and lecturers have such a suffering experience: A sudden strike of their course presentation occurs when delivering on a different computer. That is because PowerPoint is fragile in transferring from a machine to another. Therefore, if you are to carry a Windows-based course presentation to a Mac, or to deliver it on a DVD player attached to TV for a small group, burn the course stuff to a DVD disc using reliable burning software like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.

Benefits of burning the course presentation to DVD:

• Avoid playback failure on the end-machine due to absence of matching PowerPoint
  Prevent any loss of PowerPoint elements like sounds and movie clips in transferring
  Safeguard your own course work away from unwanted copying or modifying by others
  Archive course presentations in a safe standalone way for reuse in future
  

Convert the PowerPoint course presentation to video

In this era of Web 2.0 and E-Learning 2.0, you cannot ignore the growing popularity of online education via a rich set of social networks like blog, chat room, forum, podcast, etc. To track students' digestion of a course, i.e., the final effect of a course presentation, you can finalize the course material in video and share it via the Internet. Compared with bloated PowerPoint, video is a better format that is easier, safer and more popular for web distribution. Put the video course to your teaching blog or any shared group, inviting the students to join and leave a comment so that you can get more interactive with them and improve the next lesson according to their feedbacks. For quick video creation out of your course presentation, Moyea PPT to Video Converter can help.
Click here to get a grasp of how to insert a PowerPoint video to your blog.

Save the PowerPoint course content to PDF
Apart from the above video or DVD extension of your course presentation, this Save to PDF mean a static preserve of your course presentation. Though animations and other dynamic effects in the original get lost once saved to PDF, the compact format brings a real ease in delivering your course content via email to share with your students.

If you are a PowerPoint 2007 user, you can save the course presentation straight to PDF. Microsoft provides a free Save as PDF or XPS add-in on its official website. After you download and install that Publish As PDF add-in, you can save your course stuff to PDF as email attachment. What if you use an earlier version like Office 2003? Then take Moyea PPT to PDF Converter (applies to MS Office 2000 and above) to generate a PDF copy of your course.

Integrated with modern multimedia technology, the PowerPoint-based e-Learning software tools reinforce the accessibility and reusability of your course content anywhere and at any place.

How to create a PowerPoint 2007 template

Selected from MS Office -> PowerPoint Help and How-to

Best practice for creating a template

When you create a template, add any content to the slide master in Slide Master view that you want to protect from being changed by users of your template, such as instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer information, subject matter content, a background, formatting, colors, fonts, and effects.

Users of your template will work in Normal view, guided by the instructional prompts that you added. The template users will replace the instructional prompt text and other placeholder content with data that is specific to their own project or presentation.

Create a new template

1. Open a blank presentation, and then on the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Master.


2. On the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Master group, click Insert Slide Master. Notes
   
   
   
   • In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master represents the larger slide image, and the associated layouts are positioned beneath it.
   
   
   • Many presentations contain more than one slide master, so you may have to scroll to find the one that you want.
   
   
   
   


3. To begin customizing the slide master, do one or more of the following:
   
   
   
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     • To remove any of the built-in slide layouts that accompany the default slide master, in the slide thumbnail pane, right-click each slide layout that you don't want to use, and then click Delete Layout.
     
     
     • To remove an unwanted, default placeholder, in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that contains the placeholder, click the border of the placeholder in the presentation window, and then press DELETE.
     
     
     • To add a text placeholder, in the slide thumbnail pane, click the slide layout that you want to contain the placeholder, and then do the following:
       
       
       
       1. On the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click Insert Placeholder, and then click Text.
       
       
       2. Click a location on the slide master, and then drag to draw the placeholder. Tip To resize a placeholder, drag the corner of one of its borders.
       
       
       3. Type descriptive text that prompts the users of your template to enter specific information.
       
       
       
       
     
     
     • To add other types of placeholders that contain content such as pictures, clip art, SmartArt graphics, charts, movies, sounds, and tables, on the Slide Master tab, in the Master Layout group, click the type of placeholder that you want to add.
     
     
     • To apply a theme to your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Edit Theme group, click Themes, and then click a theme.
     
     
     • To change the background, on the Slide Master tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and then click a background.
     
     
     • To set the page orientation for all of the slides in your presentation, on the Slide Master tab, in the Page Setup group, click Slide Orientation, and then click either Portrait or Landscape.
     
     
     • To add text to appear in the footer at the bottom of all of the slides in your presentation, do the following:
       
       
       
       1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Header & Footer.
       
       
       2. In the Header and Footer dialog box, on the Slide tab, select the Footer check box, and then type the text that you want to appear at the bottom of your slides.
       
       
       3. To display the footer content on all slides, click Apply to All. Note For more information about using headers and footers, see Add a header or footer and Change or delete header and footer information in a presentation.
       
       
       
       
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   


4. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Save As.


5. In the File name box, type a file name, or do nothing to accept the suggested file name.


6. In the Save as type list, click PowerPoint Template, and then click Save. Tip Save your templates to the Templates folder at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\ to make them easier to locate.


7. If you need assistance applying your new template to a presentation, see Apply a PowerPoint 2007 template.

Unique DVD Movie in Memory of Michael Jackson

Source: http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-dvd-tips/in-memory-of-michael-jackson.html

Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop", one of the most talented musicians in the 20th century, died on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at his 50 when preparing for a 50-show comeback bid to shoot down nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial woe.

No matter for his family and friends, or for his crazy fans, the sudden passing of Michael Jackson is a grey shock in this sunny summer. As the tragic word spreads, a multitude of millions from every corner of the world cannot help mourning over the death of Jackson, the music genius, best of his generation, famous for his unparallel moonwalk, his feverish dance moves and his high-pitched singing, punctuated with squeals and titters.

Michael has gone forever with his living music. Yet never does our deep memories on the great entertainer. Newspapers give their eventual fair words on the pop talent; TVs arrange golden shows in his career history; Internet twitters billions of mourning messages on the bygone legendary figure. Nevertheless, for individual fans, there is another way that is special to memorialize Michael – Make a unique DVD movie for him.

Everyone has his own memory of Michael Jackson. Express it, and keep it. That is what we can do in memory of great Jackson, and that is easy with two software items – MS PowerPoint & PowePoint to DVD Burner, where two steps are enough to make a distinctive DVD movie for Michael Jackson.

*Sample Slideshow on Michael Jackson Click to view >>

Step 1 Create a PowerPoint presentation on Michael Jackson

Before composing your story of Michael Jackson, you'd better make a careful collection of him. Be well aware of your topic: what you want to show in this Jackson movie, for example, "A history of Michael Jackson", "Brief Introduction on Best Albums of Michael Jackson", what PowerPoint template to use, and how to organize all Jackson elements in a nice manner. After everything necessary is ready, start your composition of the Jackson movie.

Spices that you can feed for the Jackson PowerPoint movie:

• Best songs of Michael Jackson - Take a proper piece as background music

• Typical photos/pictures of Michael Jackson - A picture is worth a thousand of words

• Video clips on Michael Jackson - Insert a clip of top Jackson music video to spark the movie

• Personal voice narration – Record your very voice as narrator of the Jackson movie

• Animations in PowerPoint – Animate the Jackson movie slides with rich effects

In addition, measure the Jackson presentation a couple of times and adjust it to an appropriate level.

Step 2 Burn the presentation to DVD with PowerPoint to DVD Burner

Now it's time to burn the Jackson presentation onto a DVD. Do the following:
Insert a blank DVD into your PC.

Download and install PowerPoint to DVD Burner. Click Add to input the Jackson presentation.
Select the output to Standard or High Definition DVD as you like. In the "Menu" tab, pick a matching DVD menu for remote control of your Jackson movie. In the "Logo" section, import your favorite image file to brand and protect the DVD movie.

Once all are set OK, click Start to burn the Jackson presentation to DVD.

Voila. You can enjoy this unique memory of Michael Jackson on a DVD player with a home TV. His "Thriller" may be gone, but his thrill lives still.

Related: Free PowerPoint Templates for Michael Jackson

Latest Moyea PPT to Video Converter V1.6 Now Availabl

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Shenzhen, P.R. China (June 25th, 2009) - Moyea Software, a dedicated developer of first-class multimedia authoring solutions, announced the release of the latest version 1.6 of PPT to Video Converter at the beginning of Summer 2009.

This PPT to video conversion software turns PowerPoint presentation into stream video, which is great for those who want to put a PPT presentation on YouTube, MySpace, company homepages and personal blogs, those who are interested in watching a slideshow on a portable device like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zen, Zune, Pocket PC, Xbox 360, Blackberry and other cell phones, and those who intend to email a PowerPoint file avoiding loss of effects, trouble in PowerPoint versions, and fault from a Windows to a Mac. It serves as if an expedite bridge between the two popular multimedia files, making it easy at one go from any PowerPoint file (PPT, PPS, POT, PPTX, PPSX, POTX…) to a variety of video formats (AVI, ASF, FLV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV, 3GP…). As to conversion performance, the PPT to Video program can convert PowerPoint presentation to high-quality video fast and precisely, retaining everything in the original like animations, transitions, sound tracks, movie clips, action buttons and internal links in a minute or two.

What is NEW in this PowerPoint to video converter 1.6?

Succeeding the accepted strengths such as flexible video outputs and intuitive 7-languge interface from earlier versions, the latest Moyea PPT to Video Converter features a more concrete Profile with specific tabs for both video and audio outputs.

Here are the new upgrades in the Profile of Moyea PPT to Video Converter 1.6:

1. Distinctive classification of video and audio options

The PPT to Video converter 1.6 gives a clear classification of PowerPoint-to-video-and-audio options, for instance, "Audio Quality" and "Video Quality". No matter to convert PowerPoint to video or to extract audio from a presentation, the upgraded converter lets you get an easy close of proper output.

2. Friendly new tabs of great convenience for conversion

The PowerPoint to Video has a fresh set of new tabs that brings a great convenience to conversion. It adds "Recent" to record last output option(s) for retrieval, "Common Video" to guide you with general video formats, "Common Audio" to get you through a host of audio formats in actual use, "User Defined" to let you show your own programming genius, and "All Profiles" to give you a full look of output options by both format and terminal device.

3. Additional output video and audio formats

New video format like ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) and new audio format like OGG and AIFF are available in this PPT to Video Converter. You can find it more comfortable to convert a presentation to a video or audio in appropriate format.

4. More choices on terminal devices of your video presentation

The new PPT to Video builds in more outputs by terminal device, e.g. Windows Mobile, PMP. It becomes easy for you to detect the right file format for the target output device.

5. Brief description for each output option

Each single output option has a concise description in the PowerPoint to video converter, from which users can figure out the one they need at a glance. No more will you be at a loss when choosing an output format.

6. Enhanced video and audio codec in output

The PPT to Video also has improved video and audio codec to output a video presentation with less time, but of better effect.

Pricing and Availability
Moyea PPT to Video Converter V 1.6 supports Windows XP/2000/NT/Vista. The unit price of the product is $49.95 (US) on a per-computer license. Registered customers will be entitled to free unlimited updates of the product and the first priority to related technical support, while buyers of volume licenses (5 or above) be given with bigger volume discounts.

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Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation (II)

Creating a good PowerPoint presentation is the first step. Remember to practice over and over your class PowerPoint presentation until to a perfect extent. The next thing is distribution of the class presentation. How to distribute it depends on several factors, where the class PowerPoint presentation is made, where it is going to display, and how many students or classmates will attend to your class, etc.

I have mentioned in my previous post (Section I) how to make a fine class PowerPoint presentation, now I am to share with you how to distribute a PowerPoint masterpiece in the following Section II.

Section II: Distribute a Sound Class PowerPoint Presentation

1. Save your class PowerPoint file on the same computer
If your class presentation is created at and is to be distributed with the same computer (usu. your laptop), then simply leave it there. But by this method, you may run on certain risks of the vulnerable PowerPoint - computer corruption, Internet disconnection, and virus attacks. Many people do that, however, it is not recommended, especially when your class PowerPoint presentation is of critical importance.

2. Simply e-mail your class PowerPoint file
It is a PowerPoint presentation of homework, and you are required to email to your teacher's account for review. In that case, simply e-mail the presentation.

Note -

• Don't email a class presentation unless you are sure that the recipient use the same OS (don't email from a PC to a Mac), the same version or later of PowerPoint program. Some people don't have MS PowerPoint installed on their computers, nor do they have a proper PowerPoint Viewer to read your class presentation.


• Don't forget to include the whole PowerPoint components (the presentation itself, the sound file, the video file if there is any) in the same folder before zipping it to email. Otherwise, the sounds or video clips embedded in your class presentation will not play on the recipient's computer.


• And don't email your class PowerPoint presentation if you are afraid of unwanted modification by others.

3. Save your class PowerPoint content to video

For an online class, you can apply this simple but effective means - save your class PowerPoint content to video, which is more flexible for Web share. When your class PowerPoint content is finalized in protective video, you can email it with comfort or upload it to your website, blog, MySpace, or YouTube, and invite your students or classmates to join in. Nevertheless, finalize your PowerPoint presentation in video first, using some excellent conversion software like PowerPoint to Video Converter

4. Save your class PowerPoint presentation onto a DVD disc

If you are to take your PowerPoint presentation from home to school, consider burning or saving it to a DVD disc. A DVD backup is a wise relief from your vulnerable PowerPoint presentation. You will neither suffer from such computer risks as computer corruption, virus attacks that may occur by Method 1, nor bother to any version trouble or cross-platform inability as may happen by Method 2. An additional benefit of this PowerPoint to DVD method is that you can play your class PowerPoint at a DVD player on big screen TV, just like a professional movie.
Software to burn your class PowerPoint to sleek DVD: PowerPoint to DVD Burner

5. Save your class PowerPoint file as PDF
As to printing and reprinting, you can save your class PowerPoint as PDF. Before taking this means, you should make sure your recipient has Acrobat Reader or else PDF viewer on his/her computer. If your class presentation is composed on MS PowerPoint 2007, you can save it direct to PDF since there is a Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007. You can also use a standalone conversion app, e.g. PowerPoint to PDF Converter, to turn your class presentation into organized PDF. Save as PDF, and give a PDF copy to each attendant, when you intend to deliver your class presentation with full sense.

Voila. The remarkable teaching aid PowerPoint deserves your effort and taste. Take all the tips here on class presentation creation and distribution, and make full use of PowerPoint to improve your teaching.

Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation (I)

As an easy and dynamic presentation tool, MS PowerPoint has been a popular alternative to the traditional blackboard aid in class. For teachers, a well-planned PowerPoint presentation appeals more to students of this digital epoch than a plain lecture without illustration. For students, a class report or research project delicately composed in PowerPoint is always more organized in look and more convenient for archive. So how to make and share a wonderful class presentation? In this post, you will find useful tips on creation and distribution of class PowerPoint presentations.

Section I: Create an Effective PowerPoint presentation

We know there are geniuses of speech, but there are very few. Most of us may fear to speak in public unless very very well-prepared. Never risk a successful class to a hasty PowerPoint presentation. Instead, build a written summary of your course carefully in PowerPoint. Here are several points you should bear in mind when composing a class presentation.

1. Define the topic
To give a persuasive presentation, you need to keep in mind what you are conveying to the audience. Make sure you have a thorough understanding of the class topic. How long do you have to make your presentation? Are you able to use visual aids or handouts? You don't have to become an expert, or read every book or website ever written about your topic, but you should be able to answer any questions your teacher or classmates might give you.

2. Know the style
To be classic or to be trendy? It depends on both the course stuff and the targeted audience. For example, if you are going to tell a serious subject to a group of college students, take on a PowerPoint template of lofty color; if it is a DIY class to kids less than 8, employ a colorful background along with funny animations in your presentation. Be sure the style and the subject matches in the class presentation. Click here for free PowerPoint templates and backgrounds

3. Picture & animate it
As the saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand of words". So do animations, video clips, and background sounds. A decent use of all those visual effects can bring a dramatic impact to your class PowerPoint presentation. Try to add some dynamics to set your class presentation off.

4. Less is more
The key is simplicity. Use less stuff to convey more ideas. Avoid abuse of PowerPoint components, esp. animations and wipes. Include in each slide points of 3-7, in each bullet words of 3-7. Never put all points in one slide at once, or the audience will lose interest in listening further to your presentation. Use simple sentences rather than long complete ones. Keep one theme or background, one font set and one text animation effect.

5. Edit by rehearsal
Rehearse your class presentation once done. Ask someone to comment on your rehearsal so that you can edit the PPT presentation for improvement.