5 great tools and techniques for developing presentations « Libr. 5 great tools and techniques for developing presentations November 16, 2009 at 9:00 am lemasney Hi, everyone! One of my favorite librarians and open source advocates (Nicole Engard) just Tweet DMed me and asked if I ever shared officially the tools I mentioned in a discussion session on Presentation Tools and Techniques at Pres4Lib at Princeton Public Library. I replied no, with regrets. I figured if she’s wondering about it, maybe you are too! By the way, if you like our articles, please share them on Twitter, Facebook, and anywhere else you like. I use a pretty well structured, personally vetted workflow for developing presentations and blog posts that involves developing an outline, collecting images, preparing images, research and citations.
Google Docs Presentations I stopped using Microsoft PowerPoint a few years ago and have not looked back. Image via CrunchBase Creative Commons vetting via Google Image Search Picasa Image via Wikipedia Zotero QuoteURLText John LeMasney Like this: Insert or embed videos in PowerPoint files. Similar to audio, video can be inserted in two ways in PowerPoint.
Either you can insert video from your computer or you can use flash embed of some video sharing website like YouTube, Vimeo, Revver etc. Contrary to audio, embedding of video file is not possible in PowerPoint. Video files are always linked and play from the path stored in PowerPoint slide. 1. In Normal view, click the slide to which you want to add a movie. 2. On the Insert tab, in the Media Clips group, click the arrow under Movie. 3. Do one of the following: Movie from File, locate the folder that contains the file, and then double-click the file that you want to add.Click Movie from Clip Organizer, scroll to find the clip that you want in the Clip Art task pane (task pane: A window within an Office program that provides commonly used commands. Solution: Upload videos to be used in PowerPoint on some video sharing websites like YouTube, Revver, or Vimeo.
Presentations for New Web. Web Presentation Tools And Technologies: A Mini-Guide. Web presentation tools and technologies provide the means to deliver any PowerPoint-based or similar type of visual presentation to an Internet-connected audience, no matter where participants are connecting from. Most web presentation technologies, do away with requiring end users to have an installed copy of Microsoft PowerPoint and increasingly offer not just the ability to digitally distribute such presentations but also of creating them. Photo credit: Teamslide Until recently, sharing a PowerPoint presentation with other people, let alone doing this in real-time, was a major challenge.
The size of a typical PowerPoint file didn't make it easy to send it via email, and incompatibilities between different versions of PowerPoint made the effort even more complex for the non-technical user. PowerPoint itself allows the saving of any presentation as a set of Web pages. Some of the limitations of exporting PowerPoint presentations into web pages directly from within PowerPoint may include: Powerbullet Presenter - Create animated Flash-Presentations | Ho.