Jan 27th, 2010 – Acoolsoft, the professional provider of DVD, video and flash maker based on Microsoft PowerPoint, today announced the release of Acoolsoft PPT to Video Free, a totally free PowerPoint to video converter which enables users to convert PowerPoint presentations to video with high quality.
Key Features of Acoolsoft PPT to Video Free:- Intuitive user interface guarantees friendly using experience
- Convert one PPT, PPTX, PPS or PPSX to WMV, MOV, ASF or MKV at a time
- Customizable output video setting like video resolutions, frame rate and bit rate
- Retain all features in the original PowerPoint, such as pictures, animations, transitions, sounds and video clips
- Make the output video more personalized with your own logo
For person who want to get batch conversion ability and convert PowerPoint to more popular video formats like AVI, MPEG, FLV, MP4, HD video and hardware compatible video, they can upgrade to Acoolsoft PPT to Video Pro.
Who will Benefits from Acoolsoft PPT to Video Free:
- Business men who use PowerPoint to promote their business
- Students that use PowerPoint for mobile learning
- Teachers or trainers who make courses with PowerPoint
- Individuals that want to share their presentation or PowerPoint photo album online
How to Get Acoolsoft PPT to Video Free:
Follow the instructions after clicking Download, and you will get it in few minutes for free.
About Acoolsoft Software Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2007, Acoolsoft aims to develop practical PowerPoint converters to help users present PowerPoint slideshows in most available ways. The four main products are PPT2DVD, PPT to Video Pro, PPT to Video Free, and PPT2Flash. To give the best product quality and the best customer and support service to users is always the aim of this group.
For more information, please contact:
Anna Lee
Email: biz@acoolsoft.com
Tel: +86-755-86117747
Another PowerPoint to video Professional converter: Wondershare PPT2Video Pro you can select.
2010年1月26日星期二
Convert PowerPoint to WMV with Free PowerPoint to WMV Converter
Maybe some people around you are searching ways for converting PowerPoint to WMV. How can we do this? Or if there is any free way to convert PowerPoint to WMV?
What is WMV?
WMV stands for Windows Media Video - developed and controlled by Microsoft.
It is a generic name of Microsoft's video encoding solution and doesn't necessarily define the technology what it uses. The latest version of WMV (now, summer 2005, the latest one is called WMV10) doesn't have much in common with MPEG-4, but uses Microsoft's own video encoding technologies instead.
Why People Want to Convert PowerPoint to WMV Free?
By converting PowerPoint to WMV:
- Your PowerPoint can be played through many video players or further being burned to discs.
- Your presentations can be viewed on many portable devices like Blackberry and Pocket PC.
- You no longer need to worry if the PowerPoint version on your computer is the right one to open a PowerPoint sent from others.
Overall, converting PowerPoint to WMV free can help you widely share your presentations.
How to convert PowerPoint to WMV Free?With a free PowerPoint to WMV converter like Acoolsoft PPT to Video Free, it can be a piece of cake to convert PowerPoint to WMV free.
First, open this free PPT to WMV converter, and then import your PowerPoint to the program.
Next, choose the Output Video Formats of WMV. You can also set the output video size, quality and so on.
Last, click Start, and your PowerPoint presentations will be automatically converted to WMV in a few minutes.
Converting PowerPoint to WMV free can be really an easy job, just depends on how you do it. Have a trial of this free PowerPoint to WMV converter, we believe you will get more!
Further reading:
PowerPoint to movie - Top 3 Methods about PowerPoint to Movie Conversion
PowerPoint to FLV - How to convert PowerPoint to FLV
2009年11月8日星期日
Smiths' New Idea for Thanksgiving Family Reunion Party - Make DVD Slideshow as Background
Thanksgiving Day is coming! In the parlor, the Smiths are discussing how to make the precious Thanksgiving family reunion party nice, colorful and unforgettable? Sh…listen! What are they saying?
Father: Novel decorations?
Mother: Cute cookies?
Daughter, the high school student says mysteriously: Good ideas, but not best ones! What I suggest is - make DVD slideshow as background for our Thanksgiving family reunion party!
Father and Mother: wow!!!
Daughter (excitedly): Yes, make our own family DVD slideshow for Thanksgiving party! How happy is the moment when family members reunite together. At this moment a joyful party is what we expected so much! Novel decorations and cute cookies are good, but may not cool enough. A family DVD slideshow as the background for the party is more exciting and must be able to strike a responsive chord in everyone's hearts.
Father : That sounds interesting! Go on, dear!
Daughter (proudly): Thank you, Dad! There are two major benefits for us to use a DVD slideshow as the background of our Thanksgiving family reunion party.
First, it will strengthen the lifesome and warm atmosphere of family reunion. We can collect photos from Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle, Auntie, Brother, etc, and then make them a DVD movie played on our big TV. When they come to our party, they must be touched by the vivid show. Happy moment comes! Right?
Mother: uh…let me see…see….
Daughter: Mom, there is another point! We can also take this DVD slideshow as a novel and meaningful Thanksgiving gift for family members. Cookies will be eaten up; decorations will be torn out after the festival, but the DVD slideshow can be preserved for a long time and played repeatedly. Even Grandparents can easily play this slideshow on TV with DVD player when they miss us.
Family reunion is for the love between family members and friends. We can make DVD slideshow with our own photos, stories, and words. Let's imagine: happy holiday, dear family members and the precious moments! Don't you think it makes more sense?
Father: Great! That really sounds touching and exciting. But I don't know how to make such DVD slideshow.
Mother: oh, genius! Dear, I can't agree with you more. I have already been touched once I think of the occasion. Well, is it hard to make such a DVD slideshow?
Daughter (confidently): Dad, Mom, it's just a piece of cake! Listen to my plan. Now that we have already got PowerPoint, I intend to make full use of it to make this DVD slideshow. Apart from PowerPoint, I just need a PowerPoint to DVD burner. Only these two little applications!
First I will make the slideshow with PowerPoint. You know I'm good at this tool and also I have many PowerPoint tutorials and Thanksgiving PowerPoint templates as references. The next and also the last step is to burn the PowerPoint slideshow to a DVD. I have tried some software like Acoolsoft PowerPoint to DVD burner. The conversion result is really satisfying.
In a word, everything is easy to do. Dad, Mom, I have said so much, while how do you think of this idea for our Thanksgiving party?
Father : Bravo! Oh, dear, that's perfect, isn't? Darling (turn to his wife), what's your opinion? ...Darling?
Daughter: Strange, where is Mom? ...Mom!
....
(Beside the telephone in the bedroom)
"Hi, Dad, could you please send me the photos you took with my Mom in California? I …" Mom says, making the telephone call.
Further reading:
PowerPoint 2007 to DVD - Two Effective Ways for You
PowerPoint to movie - Top 3 Methods about PowerPoint to Movie Conversion
2009年7月9日星期四
Convert PowerPoint to YouTube Video for Free - Free Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube
For many reasons, you may want to upload your PowerPoint to YouTube. Such as the following situation:
1. Broadcast yourself on YouTube with a promotional PowerPoint presentation
2. Advertise your product or company with PowerPoint on YouTube
3. Share your unique or funny presentation on YouTube with millions of people
4. Upload PowerPoint to YouTube as an alternative solution to share PPT with friends and families who are not in the same place with you
5. Enable your PowerPoint to be viewed without the need of Microsoft PowerPoint
But How to Upload PowerPoint to YouTube
PowerPoint is not in a video format that YouTube accepts. The mainly video formats that YouTube accepts are MPEG, MOV, AVI, FLV and MP4. So, for uploading PowerPoint to YouTube, you will need to convert your PowerPoint to one of the video format first.
Free Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube is just a tool which can help users directly convert PowerPoint to a YouTube video for free. The output MP4 video file will retain all visual elements and animation effects in the original PPT.
After you convert your PowerPoint to MP4 video with Free Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube, the next step is to upload the video to YouTube. Here are the steps:
1. Click "Upload Videos “in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.
2. Enter as much information about your video as possible, including Title, Description, Tags, and Category. The more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
3. Determine if you want your video set to Public or Private.
4. Click the "Continue Uploading “button.
5. In the next window, click the "Browse “button to browse for the video file. Select the file you want to upload.
6. Click the "Upload Video" button.
If you have any PowerPoint presentations that want to upload to YouTube, just try this Free PPT2YouTube tool. Convert your PowerPoint to a YouTube video for free and enjoy yourself with this fun.
1. Broadcast yourself on YouTube with a promotional PowerPoint presentation
2. Advertise your product or company with PowerPoint on YouTube
3. Share your unique or funny presentation on YouTube with millions of people
4. Upload PowerPoint to YouTube as an alternative solution to share PPT with friends and families who are not in the same place with you
5. Enable your PowerPoint to be viewed without the need of Microsoft PowerPoint
But How to Upload PowerPoint to YouTube
PowerPoint is not in a video format that YouTube accepts. The mainly video formats that YouTube accepts are MPEG, MOV, AVI, FLV and MP4. So, for uploading PowerPoint to YouTube, you will need to convert your PowerPoint to one of the video format first.
Free Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube is just a tool which can help users directly convert PowerPoint to a YouTube video for free. The output MP4 video file will retain all visual elements and animation effects in the original PPT.
After you convert your PowerPoint to MP4 video with Free Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube, the next step is to upload the video to YouTube. Here are the steps:
1. Click "Upload Videos “in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.
2. Enter as much information about your video as possible, including Title, Description, Tags, and Category. The more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
3. Determine if you want your video set to Public or Private.
4. Click the "Continue Uploading “button.
5. In the next window, click the "Browse “button to browse for the video file. Select the file you want to upload.
6. Click the "Upload Video" button.
If you have any PowerPoint presentations that want to upload to YouTube, just try this Free PPT2YouTube tool. Convert your PowerPoint to a YouTube video for free and enjoy yourself with this fun.
2009年6月19日星期五
How to Make an Exquisite Baby DVD Slideshow with Music
It’s important to capture the happiness and beauty of your child as she grows from day to day. Babies’ cute fingers, toes, teeth and faces always make us feel warm and happy. Take photos of your baby is not only enjoyment, but also a good record of her early years. An exquisite baby DVD slideshow can be a precious gift to them as your baby grows up.
As a baby DVD slideshow always include many photos of your baby, knowing how to take the best photos of your baby is necessary. Here is an article introduces 7 tips on baby photography. Hope these tips would help more or less. Before making a DVD slideshow for your baby, select and locate your baby’s photo in a new folder on your computer. This will bring you a lot convenience. Now, take the following steps to make the DVD slideshow.
What you will need: PowerPoint, a PowerPoint to DVD burning tool
Step 1: Import your baby’s photos into PowerPoint
Have you ever thought you can make photos look smart and edit photo shapes/frames in PowerPoint? Simply realize it like this: Open PowerPoint -> Insert -> Images -> Choose photos. Then double click a photo, you will see the Picture Tools options in the tool bar. In it, you can set the picture style and picture shape (frame). There are more than a hundred shapes for you. Compared with other photo editing tools, I think it is really convenient and easy.
Step 2: Add descriptions to your baby’s photo(s) - optional
Maybe you have some good wishes want to express to your baby, or some words want to add to a specific photo. Do it in these steps: choose Insert in the toolbar, then Text Box, finally input the words into it.
Step 3: Choose an appropriate song accompany with the DVD slideshow
Add song to your slideshow. Follow these steps: click Insert -> Sound -> Sound from file. Here are ten popular songs for you:
A Baby's Prayer Kathy Troccoli
A Mother's Prayer Celine Dion
Beautiful Boy Celine Dion
Handprints On The Wall Kenny Rogers
Isn't She Lovely Stevie Wonder
My Gift Michael O'Brien
My Treasure Mel Tunney
The Greatest Gift Steve & Annie Chapman
Tough Little Boys Gary Allan
You Bring Me Joy Carolyn Arends
Step4: Burn the PowerPoint to DVD for store and share
There is both free way and cost-effective ways for you to do this. Here is a PowerPoint backup to CD/DVD tutorial. You will get lots of advice from it. Just choose the one you like.
Make an exquisite DVD slideshow for your baby. Give your baby a meaningful babyhood. If there is a baby in your family, don’t hesitate to make one now.
Further reading:
PowerPoint 2007 to DVD - Two Effective Ways for You
PowerPoint to movie - Top 3 Methods about PowerPoint to Movie Conversion
As a baby DVD slideshow always include many photos of your baby, knowing how to take the best photos of your baby is necessary. Here is an article introduces 7 tips on baby photography. Hope these tips would help more or less. Before making a DVD slideshow for your baby, select and locate your baby’s photo in a new folder on your computer. This will bring you a lot convenience. Now, take the following steps to make the DVD slideshow.
What you will need: PowerPoint, a PowerPoint to DVD burning tool
Step 1: Import your baby’s photos into PowerPoint
Have you ever thought you can make photos look smart and edit photo shapes/frames in PowerPoint? Simply realize it like this: Open PowerPoint -> Insert -> Images -> Choose photos. Then double click a photo, you will see the Picture Tools options in the tool bar. In it, you can set the picture style and picture shape (frame). There are more than a hundred shapes for you. Compared with other photo editing tools, I think it is really convenient and easy.
Step 2: Add descriptions to your baby’s photo(s) - optional
Maybe you have some good wishes want to express to your baby, or some words want to add to a specific photo. Do it in these steps: choose Insert in the toolbar, then Text Box, finally input the words into it.
Step 3: Choose an appropriate song accompany with the DVD slideshow
Add song to your slideshow. Follow these steps: click Insert -> Sound -> Sound from file. Here are ten popular songs for you:
A Baby's Prayer Kathy Troccoli
A Mother's Prayer Celine Dion
Beautiful Boy Celine Dion
Handprints On The Wall Kenny Rogers
Isn't She Lovely Stevie Wonder
My Gift Michael O'Brien
My Treasure Mel Tunney
The Greatest Gift Steve & Annie Chapman
Tough Little Boys Gary Allan
You Bring Me Joy Carolyn Arends
Step4: Burn the PowerPoint to DVD for store and share
There is both free way and cost-effective ways for you to do this. Here is a PowerPoint backup to CD/DVD tutorial. You will get lots of advice from it. Just choose the one you like.
Make an exquisite DVD slideshow for your baby. Give your baby a meaningful babyhood. If there is a baby in your family, don’t hesitate to make one now.
Further reading:
PowerPoint 2007 to DVD - Two Effective Ways for You
PowerPoint to movie - Top 3 Methods about PowerPoint to Movie Conversion
2009年5月14日星期四
How to Make a Perfect Wedding Slideshow by Yourself
So you made it, the wedding is finally over and you and your new spouse want to make a slideshow of your big day. But do you really want to pay someone else to do it for you? Making a wedding slideshow yourself is now easier than you would ever believe. And it gives you more quality time to spend together.
Before making your wedding slideshow, you will need to choose a program. There are many tools you can use, but one tool I will recommend is PowerPoint. As it is easy to use, and it has a step by step guide when you are in the program. Your wedding photos, videos and songs can all be inserted into it.
As you may have lots of photographs and videos want to include in your wedding slideshow, one thing to do before you make your wedding slideshow with PowerPoint is to select photographs, video clips, songs and anything else you want to insert to your wedding slideshow. This also works as a great bonding opportunity and allows you to relive all of the moments of your wedding.
After that, directly import the photos, videos and songs into the PowerPoint or use the photo album function of PowerPoint to form your wedding slideshow. For details about how to do it step by step, you can reference this article.
Below are four useful tips that will help making your wedding slideshow more delicate.
1. Choose Quality Wedding Photos - Pictures that look great printed will also look great while scanned. Now it's more and more popular to use digital camera to take wedding photos.
2. Add short wedding video montage clips - Do you have any home videos sitting around gathering dust? Think about adding perhaps a 10-15 second wedding video clip in the middle of the wedding slide show.
3. Give some thought to music - Choose music that has meaning to you, music whose lyrics go well with the pictures. Slow romantic songs and Fast dancing songs will have different feeling and drive different emotion. As long as the pace of showing pictures are matching to the music.
4. DVD Menu - Creating a DVD menu is not a big task anymore. It will provide you to show your work in a more professional look and including your great pictures in your menu to indicate different episode.
For preserving your wedding slideshow for long-time use or distribute it to your families and friends, you’d better further burn the wedding slideshow you made with PowerPoint onto a DVD disc. Then only with a DVD disc, you can view your wedding slideshow on TV via a DVD player. For methods to burn your PowerPoint wedding slideshow to DVD, you can click here.
Use DVD wedding slideshow to record the most beautiful moment in your life. Have a sweet day everyday with your honey.
Before making your wedding slideshow, you will need to choose a program. There are many tools you can use, but one tool I will recommend is PowerPoint. As it is easy to use, and it has a step by step guide when you are in the program. Your wedding photos, videos and songs can all be inserted into it.
As you may have lots of photographs and videos want to include in your wedding slideshow, one thing to do before you make your wedding slideshow with PowerPoint is to select photographs, video clips, songs and anything else you want to insert to your wedding slideshow. This also works as a great bonding opportunity and allows you to relive all of the moments of your wedding.
After that, directly import the photos, videos and songs into the PowerPoint or use the photo album function of PowerPoint to form your wedding slideshow. For details about how to do it step by step, you can reference this article.
Below are four useful tips that will help making your wedding slideshow more delicate.
1. Choose Quality Wedding Photos - Pictures that look great printed will also look great while scanned. Now it's more and more popular to use digital camera to take wedding photos.
2. Add short wedding video montage clips - Do you have any home videos sitting around gathering dust? Think about adding perhaps a 10-15 second wedding video clip in the middle of the wedding slide show.
3. Give some thought to music - Choose music that has meaning to you, music whose lyrics go well with the pictures. Slow romantic songs and Fast dancing songs will have different feeling and drive different emotion. As long as the pace of showing pictures are matching to the music.
4. DVD Menu - Creating a DVD menu is not a big task anymore. It will provide you to show your work in a more professional look and including your great pictures in your menu to indicate different episode.
For preserving your wedding slideshow for long-time use or distribute it to your families and friends, you’d better further burn the wedding slideshow you made with PowerPoint onto a DVD disc. Then only with a DVD disc, you can view your wedding slideshow on TV via a DVD player. For methods to burn your PowerPoint wedding slideshow to DVD, you can click here.
Use DVD wedding slideshow to record the most beautiful moment in your life. Have a sweet day everyday with your honey.
2009年5月7日星期四
Perfect Gifts for Mother’s Day
When it comes to Mother's Day, the best gifts aren't the fancy or expensive ones, but the ones given from the heart.
Stick to a modern Mother’s Day tradition for a safe gift choice. After all, almost every woman loves a chocolate and a bottle of wine. Do your research first: ask your dad what her favorites are, if you are not sure, and shop around for some gourmet confectionary that will make an extra special Mother’s Day gift, shop gourmet chocolates or other sweet treats online.
Following a close second behind traditional sweet and alcoholic goodies, a sentimental and thoughtful gesture will mean a great deal to your mum. Make a delicate digital photo album and fill it with photographs of your mother with you (and your siblings if you have any). To make this unique gift even more personalized, add a few words underneath each picture about your memories, or a Mother’s Day poem. Priceless!
Regarding the tools to create digital photo album, if you are happened to be a fan of PowerPoint, you can fully use the photo album function of it. Create a personalized photo album with PowerPoint is just as easy as ABC. Here are the 6 steps for creating an attractive digital photo album with PowerPoint 2007.
1. Open PowerPoint, on the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.
2. Insert pictures
Click File/Disc button. Choose pictures from your computer. You can change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button. Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.
3. Create album layout
Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like. By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.
4. Create title and subtitle for your album
After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album. Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.
5. Apply a theme to your photo album
On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.
Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer. Here are some free PowerPoint templates for Mother’s Day.
After finish making the photo album with PowerPoint, the next step is to burn it onto a CD/DVD. Finally send it to the dearest mum. Here is an article introduces 5 ways to burn a PowerPoint file onto DVD, follow the instructions, and you will surely find one way works fine with you.
Surprise your mum with an unusual gift on Mother’s Day. Express how deeply you love your mum.
Stick to a modern Mother’s Day tradition for a safe gift choice. After all, almost every woman loves a chocolate and a bottle of wine. Do your research first: ask your dad what her favorites are, if you are not sure, and shop around for some gourmet confectionary that will make an extra special Mother’s Day gift, shop gourmet chocolates or other sweet treats online.
Following a close second behind traditional sweet and alcoholic goodies, a sentimental and thoughtful gesture will mean a great deal to your mum. Make a delicate digital photo album and fill it with photographs of your mother with you (and your siblings if you have any). To make this unique gift even more personalized, add a few words underneath each picture about your memories, or a Mother’s Day poem. Priceless!
Regarding the tools to create digital photo album, if you are happened to be a fan of PowerPoint, you can fully use the photo album function of it. Create a personalized photo album with PowerPoint is just as easy as ABC. Here are the 6 steps for creating an attractive digital photo album with PowerPoint 2007.
1. Open PowerPoint, on the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.
2. Insert pictures
Click File/Disc button. Choose pictures from your computer. You can change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button. Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.
3. Create album layout
Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like. By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.
4. Create title and subtitle for your album
After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album. Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.
5. Apply a theme to your photo album
On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.
Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer. Here are some free PowerPoint templates for Mother’s Day.
After finish making the photo album with PowerPoint, the next step is to burn it onto a CD/DVD. Finally send it to the dearest mum. Here is an article introduces 5 ways to burn a PowerPoint file onto DVD, follow the instructions, and you will surely find one way works fine with you.
Surprise your mum with an unusual gift on Mother’s Day. Express how deeply you love your mum.
2009年3月15日星期日
Free PowerPoint Templates for Easter’s Day
Easter is observed on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25. It is a religious holiday that commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death by crucifixion some 2000 years ago. For Christians, Easter is a day of religious services and the gathering of family.
For the year 2009, Easter Sunday celebrations fall on 12th April.
If you need to make some presentations for Easter day or make photo albums with PowerPoint for your family reunion, these free PowerPoint templates for Easter’s day hope would help you do better.
For more free PowerPoint templates for Easter’s day, you can click here.
After making your presentations, if you need to further convert your PowerPoint to video for viewing presentations on portable devices or website and burn PowerPoint to DVD for distribution or broadcasting, you can click here.
For the year 2009, Easter Sunday celebrations fall on 12th April.
If you need to make some presentations for Easter day or make photo albums with PowerPoint for your family reunion, these free PowerPoint templates for Easter’s day hope would help you do better.
For more free PowerPoint templates for Easter’s day, you can click here.
After making your presentations, if you need to further convert your PowerPoint to video for viewing presentations on portable devices or website and burn PowerPoint to DVD for distribution or broadcasting, you can click here.
2009年3月13日星期五
How to Share your PowerPoint Presentations in Multiple Ways
Many of us make PowerPoint presentations, no matter it is for family use, business use or education use. But not lots of us know that there are multiple ways to share PowerPoint presentations. The most common way to send presentations to others may through email or put it on a server somewhere for access. You may also package your presentation to CD for the members using PowerPoint viewer only.
But what if you want to
-> Run a looping presentation on a kiosk or at a tradeshow where PC is not available
-> Send the presentation to people who may not have PCs
-> Burn the presentation onto a DVD disc for distribution
-> Et cetera…?
Then it becomes a harder work. So how can you exactly share your information in the PowerPoint presentation? Here are some solutions for you.
1. Turn the presentation into a video to view on portable devices or website
Video is a media which could be broadcasted through many players. It can display your presentations in a more vivid way. With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to your own blog and websites. Even there is no PowerPoint installed computers, you can also view your presentations through iPhone, iPod and all kinds of media player.
If take full advantages of PowerPoint, product advertisement can also made with it. Then with the PowerPoint product advertisement in video format, you can upload it to websites for more people to get familiar with your products.
As to the tools that can help convert a PowerPoint presentation to video, there are many programs out there. Unfortunately, I haven’t tried all of these. But here is one that looks promising. Although it is not free, if it does what you want it is worth looking into: PPT2Video Converter. For more ways about how to convert PowerPoint to video, you can click here.
2. Save and store PowerPoint presentation in CDs for distribution or broadcasting
If you have made precious photo albums with PowerPoint, saving them onto a CD would be meaningful. Family genealogy and other interesting events can all be widely shared with other family members who have no PCs and stored for long term preserve.
Useful courseware made with PowerPoint can also be distributed to fellows and students after being burned to CD/DVD.
Besides, PowerPoint product advertisement if saved in CD, it is possible to be viewed on a kiosk or at a tradeshow when there is no PC.
For programs to burn PowerPoint to CD, there is always Camtasia that will turn a PPT into a video/audio presentation, then with another program to make the video/audio presentation into a DVD. But if just for the function of burning PowerPoint to DVD, there are some better choices such as these ones: http://ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html ; http://ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html .
If you want to learn more ways about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD, you can click here.
3. Convert PowerPoint presentations to web-accessible presentations
There are a lot of ways to do this. One of them is converting PowerPoint presentations to HTML version. Open your PowerPoint first, and then click Save As in the Office Button. In the drop-down menu of Other Formats, choose Webpage.
Another effective way to do this is to upload your PowerPoint to video sharing websites such as YouTube. For more notes about how to share PowerPoint on YouTube, you can click here.
The next time you want to share your PowerPoint with others, don’t bother too much then. Just take the above suggestions into consideration. And use PowerPoint to boom your sales if necessary.
But what if you want to
-> Run a looping presentation on a kiosk or at a tradeshow where PC is not available
-> Send the presentation to people who may not have PCs
-> Burn the presentation onto a DVD disc for distribution
-> Et cetera…?
Then it becomes a harder work. So how can you exactly share your information in the PowerPoint presentation? Here are some solutions for you.
1. Turn the presentation into a video to view on portable devices or website
Video is a media which could be broadcasted through many players. It can display your presentations in a more vivid way. With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to your own blog and websites. Even there is no PowerPoint installed computers, you can also view your presentations through iPhone, iPod and all kinds of media player.
If take full advantages of PowerPoint, product advertisement can also made with it. Then with the PowerPoint product advertisement in video format, you can upload it to websites for more people to get familiar with your products.
As to the tools that can help convert a PowerPoint presentation to video, there are many programs out there. Unfortunately, I haven’t tried all of these. But here is one that looks promising. Although it is not free, if it does what you want it is worth looking into: PPT2Video Converter. For more ways about how to convert PowerPoint to video, you can click here.
2. Save and store PowerPoint presentation in CDs for distribution or broadcasting
If you have made precious photo albums with PowerPoint, saving them onto a CD would be meaningful. Family genealogy and other interesting events can all be widely shared with other family members who have no PCs and stored for long term preserve.
Useful courseware made with PowerPoint can also be distributed to fellows and students after being burned to CD/DVD.
Besides, PowerPoint product advertisement if saved in CD, it is possible to be viewed on a kiosk or at a tradeshow when there is no PC.
For programs to burn PowerPoint to CD, there is always Camtasia that will turn a PPT into a video/audio presentation, then with another program to make the video/audio presentation into a DVD. But if just for the function of burning PowerPoint to DVD, there are some better choices such as these ones: http://ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html ; http://ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html .
If you want to learn more ways about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD, you can click here.
3. Convert PowerPoint presentations to web-accessible presentations
There are a lot of ways to do this. One of them is converting PowerPoint presentations to HTML version. Open your PowerPoint first, and then click Save As in the Office Button. In the drop-down menu of Other Formats, choose Webpage.
Another effective way to do this is to upload your PowerPoint to video sharing websites such as YouTube. For more notes about how to share PowerPoint on YouTube, you can click here.
The next time you want to share your PowerPoint with others, don’t bother too much then. Just take the above suggestions into consideration. And use PowerPoint to boom your sales if necessary.
2009年2月16日星期一
5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to Video
Benefits of PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a powerful presentation application which is very commonly used by lectures, businessmen, students, trainers, etc. It is easy to use and featured with a lot of functions to create interesting and dynamic slide presentations. This has made it widely accepted and utilized.
Benefits of Video
Video is powerful because it’s demonstrative, clearly depicting procedures, techniques or visual information such as charts and graphs. Most of all, video showcases charisma of live images and animations, allows for transparency and communication skills, which can lead to trust. It is also a good idea to make videos for special occasions as a way of watching them and reminiscing the good times.
Benefits of converting PowerPoint presentations to video
-> Display your presentations in a more vivid way
-> With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to blog and websites
-> Even there is no computer, you can also view your presentations
-> Videos can be uploaded to portable devices such as iPhone, iPod and Pocket PC
5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video (free ways and cost-effective ways)
Method 1: Upload your presentations to http://www.slideshare.netwhich is one of the world’s largest communities for sharing presentations. It can generate video for your presentations.
After uploading your presentations onto it, you can directly download the generated video onto your own computer, or embed the video to your blog.
But there are limitations to the presentations uploaded to it. Max size of the presentation is limited to 100MB; animations, video clips and other complex elements couldn’t be added; PowerPoint 2007 is not supported. Sometimes, objects inserted into the presentation may be modified after the uploading.
Some other similar online PowerPoint sharing sites such as http://www.authorstream.com and http://www.slideboom.com/ also support generate video for the presentations uploaded. The advantage is that you don’t need to download any programs onto your computer and they are all free. If your presentation’s size is not too big, and there are only texts and pictures in your presentation, you can have a try at these sites.
Method 2: Use Camtasia which costs $299 to record your presentation and then generate a video
Step1: In the Task List, select Record PowerPoint.
Step2: Open a PowerPoint presentation to record.
Step3: Select the recording options from the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar. Click the Record button.
Step4: The presentation opens in presentation mode. A Camtasia Studio dialog opens in the lower right corner of the screen. Click the Click to begin recording button.
Step5: Progress through the PowerPoint presentation slides. To stop the recording before the last slide, press. To stop the recording at the end of the presentation, click Stop recording.
Step6: Enter a file name and location and click Save. The presentation recording saves as a Camtasia Studio recording file.
Advantages with this method: The program can capture slide timing, animations, sound effects, webcam video and any applications displayed on screen during the presentation. You can also record your own narration while the screen-capture process is being carried out.
Disadvantages: This program eats huge system resources. If the configuration of your computer is not so good, animations may become laggy or even lost.
Method 3: Convert PowerPoint presentation to video with Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
Step1: Download this PPT2Video Converter and install it on your computer.
Step2: Launch the program. Click Import button to choose the presentation you want to convert, choose an output format for the video you want to generate. And then click Start button to start the conversion process. (This program can convert presentations to video in MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.)
Step3: Upload the video to blogs or websites such as YouTube.
Method 4: Use Windows Movie Maker to create a video for your presentations
Windows Movie Maker comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. With this method, it may time consuming and animations in your presentation would be lost after the conversion.
Step1: Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images.
Step2: Import the images to your Windows Movie Maker.
Step3: Select all the imported images and then add them to Storyboard.
Step4: Add video effects to the slides (Optional)
Step5: Save the slide show as Movie File.
Method 5: Make a QuickTime movie on Mac
Export your presentation as a QuickTime movie “PowerPoint Movie”. Then you can save your presentations to MOV video file. Way to do this: click File -> Make Movie
But in this way, sounds and animations couldn’t be retained. If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to QuickTime file directly.
Take the advantages of PowerPoint and video. Convert your presentations to video. Share your presentation with more people and create a more convenient way to view your presentations.
PowerPoint is a powerful presentation application which is very commonly used by lectures, businessmen, students, trainers, etc. It is easy to use and featured with a lot of functions to create interesting and dynamic slide presentations. This has made it widely accepted and utilized.
Benefits of Video
Video is powerful because it’s demonstrative, clearly depicting procedures, techniques or visual information such as charts and graphs. Most of all, video showcases charisma of live images and animations, allows for transparency and communication skills, which can lead to trust. It is also a good idea to make videos for special occasions as a way of watching them and reminiscing the good times.
Benefits of converting PowerPoint presentations to video
-> Display your presentations in a more vivid way
-> With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to blog and websites
-> Even there is no computer, you can also view your presentations
-> Videos can be uploaded to portable devices such as iPhone, iPod and Pocket PC
5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video (free ways and cost-effective ways)
Method 1: Upload your presentations to http://www.slideshare.netwhich is one of the world’s largest communities for sharing presentations. It can generate video for your presentations.
After uploading your presentations onto it, you can directly download the generated video onto your own computer, or embed the video to your blog.
But there are limitations to the presentations uploaded to it. Max size of the presentation is limited to 100MB; animations, video clips and other complex elements couldn’t be added; PowerPoint 2007 is not supported. Sometimes, objects inserted into the presentation may be modified after the uploading.
Some other similar online PowerPoint sharing sites such as http://www.authorstream.com and http://www.slideboom.com/ also support generate video for the presentations uploaded. The advantage is that you don’t need to download any programs onto your computer and they are all free. If your presentation’s size is not too big, and there are only texts and pictures in your presentation, you can have a try at these sites.
Method 2: Use Camtasia which costs $299 to record your presentation and then generate a video
Step1: In the Task List, select Record PowerPoint.
Step2: Open a PowerPoint presentation to record.
Step3: Select the recording options from the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar. Click the Record button.
Step4: The presentation opens in presentation mode. A Camtasia Studio dialog opens in the lower right corner of the screen. Click the Click to begin recording button.
Step5: Progress through the PowerPoint presentation slides. To stop the recording before the last slide, press
Step6: Enter a file name and location and click Save. The presentation recording saves as a Camtasia Studio recording file.
Advantages with this method: The program can capture slide timing, animations, sound effects, webcam video and any applications displayed on screen during the presentation. You can also record your own narration while the screen-capture process is being carried out.
Disadvantages: This program eats huge system resources. If the configuration of your computer is not so good, animations may become laggy or even lost.
Method 3: Convert PowerPoint presentation to video with Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
Step1: Download this PPT2Video Converter and install it on your computer.
Step2: Launch the program. Click Import button to choose the presentation you want to convert, choose an output format for the video you want to generate. And then click Start button to start the conversion process. (This program can convert presentations to video in MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.)
Step3: Upload the video to blogs or websites such as YouTube.
Method 4: Use Windows Movie Maker to create a video for your presentations
Windows Movie Maker comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. With this method, it may time consuming and animations in your presentation would be lost after the conversion.
Step1: Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images.
Step2: Import the images to your Windows Movie Maker.
Step3: Select all the imported images and then add them to Storyboard.
Step4: Add video effects to the slides (Optional)
Step5: Save the slide show as Movie File.
Method 5: Make a QuickTime movie on Mac
Export your presentation as a QuickTime movie “PowerPoint Movie”. Then you can save your presentations to MOV video file. Way to do this: click File -> Make Movie
But in this way, sounds and animations couldn’t be retained. If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to QuickTime file directly.
Take the advantages of PowerPoint and video. Convert your presentations to video. Share your presentation with more people and create a more convenient way to view your presentations.
2009年2月6日星期五
Valentine Gift Ideas for Your Beloved
Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated by many lovers all over the world, what you plan to do as the Valentine's Day approaches? Presenting flowers, exchanging confectionery, or sending Valentine's cards? This exceptional day of lovers allows everyone to give out the most fascinating things and speak up the never expressed things. Here are some perfect valentine gift ideas and tips that you can make your beloved happy.
There are plenty of options to choose. But before selecting any gifts for your beloved online, you need to put a lot of creativity, thinking and time. A gift for your beloved should largely depend on the personality of the individual. A Valentine Gift that suits the personality of your beloved will be considered as ideal.
1. Choose chocolates
If you want to make a great impression for your sweetheart on this Valentine, not to mention the feeling of cheerful surprise as your beloved receives this special valentine gift. You can choose heart-shaped chocolate, select a very romantic card and add some sweet message in it, then wrap it up to send to your beloved. This chocolate gift idea for your sweetheart promises to make her love you forever.
2. Choose candy
Surprise your Valentine with a gem of a candy collection or candy gift baskets. Candy gifts come in various types and categories suiting your sweetheart's mood and taste, not to mention affordability because candy would not be too expensive. With the aid of the various candy stores you can also order for various types of decorative candy boxes for your beloved. You can gift your spouse with a special candy bouquet.
3. Choose flowers
The meaning and beauty of flowers has captured our imagination so much that even words cannot match its power when it comes to expressing love. The perfect choice of a Valentine flower is the red roses, distinctly expressing love in its eternal form. The single stem of a rose also called “signature rose” is the most preferred choice of most Valentine lovers. Red, pink and white roses are the most sorts after Valentine Flowers. Red rose symbolizes passion, white purity and the pink rose is a blend of both.
For more flowers information you can browser Proflowers and Flowerpetal
4. Choose jewellery
Jewellery doesn't mean that it has to cost you a lot especially during the period of economic recession. My guess is she must be having many pairs of earrings and chains. So why not gift her something that she might just have one or even none. Select a nice anklet from a nearby jeweler and gift to her as a Valentine gift, you can select from different styles for her. So indulge yourself in this season of love with some great valentine jewellery ideas. Let your sweetheart remember you with this special moment lock inside her heart forever.
5. Record your romantic stories
Valentine's Day is a golden chance of expressing your love to your beloved. You can make up for all the time lost with great romance collage. Considering paper ones are easily damaged, you can create PowerPoint with snaps to cherish the memory of your love of joy. Under each Slide you can write a specific thing about your sweetheart, like "I miss your smile", "I miss you ". It will be a big fortune for you both. Presenting a sincere romance story in such a way could be an ideal Valentine's Day gift idea even if valentine flowers are not attached with it. For long-time preserve you can convert the PowerPoint to video or DVD instead papers. Here is a sample from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbrOSNsNUWo . Want to know how to do it? You can click here. Here are also some free PowerPoint templates.
Below is a DVD Menu of the tool.
These are just part of my ideas, do you have any more? Please show it to your sweetheart this Valentine's Day.
There are plenty of options to choose. But before selecting any gifts for your beloved online, you need to put a lot of creativity, thinking and time. A gift for your beloved should largely depend on the personality of the individual. A Valentine Gift that suits the personality of your beloved will be considered as ideal.
1. Choose chocolates
If you want to make a great impression for your sweetheart on this Valentine, not to mention the feeling of cheerful surprise as your beloved receives this special valentine gift. You can choose heart-shaped chocolate, select a very romantic card and add some sweet message in it, then wrap it up to send to your beloved. This chocolate gift idea for your sweetheart promises to make her love you forever.
2. Choose candy
Surprise your Valentine with a gem of a candy collection or candy gift baskets. Candy gifts come in various types and categories suiting your sweetheart's mood and taste, not to mention affordability because candy would not be too expensive. With the aid of the various candy stores you can also order for various types of decorative candy boxes for your beloved. You can gift your spouse with a special candy bouquet.
3. Choose flowers
The meaning and beauty of flowers has captured our imagination so much that even words cannot match its power when it comes to expressing love. The perfect choice of a Valentine flower is the red roses, distinctly expressing love in its eternal form. The single stem of a rose also called “signature rose” is the most preferred choice of most Valentine lovers. Red, pink and white roses are the most sorts after Valentine Flowers. Red rose symbolizes passion, white purity and the pink rose is a blend of both.
For more flowers information you can browser Proflowers and Flowerpetal
4. Choose jewellery
Jewellery doesn't mean that it has to cost you a lot especially during the period of economic recession. My guess is she must be having many pairs of earrings and chains. So why not gift her something that she might just have one or even none. Select a nice anklet from a nearby jeweler and gift to her as a Valentine gift, you can select from different styles for her. So indulge yourself in this season of love with some great valentine jewellery ideas. Let your sweetheart remember you with this special moment lock inside her heart forever.
5. Record your romantic stories
Valentine's Day is a golden chance of expressing your love to your beloved. You can make up for all the time lost with great romance collage. Considering paper ones are easily damaged, you can create PowerPoint with snaps to cherish the memory of your love of joy. Under each Slide you can write a specific thing about your sweetheart, like "I miss your smile", "I miss you ". It will be a big fortune for you both. Presenting a sincere romance story in such a way could be an ideal Valentine's Day gift idea even if valentine flowers are not attached with it. For long-time preserve you can convert the PowerPoint to video or DVD instead papers. Here is a sample from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbrOSNsNUWo . Want to know how to do it? You can click here. Here are also some free PowerPoint templates.
Below is a DVD Menu of the tool.
These are just part of my ideas, do you have any more? Please show it to your sweetheart this Valentine's Day.
2009年2月5日星期四
2009年1月15日星期四
Plasma TV Used in School
Today’s children are growing up surrounded by television and video. Visual media is already an essential component of classroom instruction. Especially in recent years, plasma TV sets have been installed in more and more schools with the support from different educational agencies.
These plasma TVs are mostly designed for use in presentations, dynamic messaging, training and teleconferencing. Teachers can present courseware through plasma TVs and also some other types of training material. Students can get the latest school news and view other students’ good job. Thus, contribute greatly to both the teaching process and the construction of campus culture. Students can learn in an innovative way, and school introduces a new way to communicate with students.
Plasma TVs are usually connected to a DVD player, VCR, HDTV decoder set-top box, external audio connections, gaming services, and a PC. In most conditions, school use DVD players and PCs as the media. As a result of this, information that is to be presented through plasma TVs is commonly stored in video or DVD format.
The preparation wok of the material to be broadcasted could be huge and time-spent. If you are the person who has been assigned this task on campus, in which mean you would finish it. Maybe some of you may think that this task is a hard one which requires complex computer skills. Indeed, not everyone has a founded flash, programming skill, but with right tools, you can also make it easy.
Regarding the Powerful function that PowerPoint has, here is a way of how to make a video or DVD based upon it. Below are some advantages of doing so:
-> As PowerPoint is available on almost all computers at school, you don’t need to buy additional content authoring tools
-> PowerPoint is frequently used to prepare for courseware, teachers can operate it easily. No professional computer skills are required
-> Besides texts, you can also insert customized backgrounds, pictures, animations, movies and etc into a PowerPoint. It is ideal to form the content of your video
After you finish form the content of your video with PowerPoint, the next step is to convert it to video formats or burn it to onto DVD discs.
1. Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format, here are two ways for you
-> Use Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computer
Step 1: Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images
Step 2: Import the pictures to your Windows Movie Maker
Step 3: Select all the imported images and add them to the Storyboard
Step 4: Add video effects to the slides (optional)
Step 5: Save the slide show as Movie File
-> Use some professional tools which will make this job easy such as Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter.BTW, there are many other ways out there of converting your PowerPoint presentations to video, you may find more by searching on Google.
2. Burn the PowerPoint onto a DVD disc:
If your prefer DVD as the media, you may find many tools on Google. I wrote an article about burn PowerPoint to DVD, you can click here to read it. It introduces 5ways for you, including free ways and cost-effective ways.
With the tips mentioned above, I believe creating a video or DVD for your school is not as difficult as you think. Just play the video or DVD on the PC, your information could be viewed everywhere on the campus where the plasma TV is deployed.
These plasma TVs are mostly designed for use in presentations, dynamic messaging, training and teleconferencing. Teachers can present courseware through plasma TVs and also some other types of training material. Students can get the latest school news and view other students’ good job. Thus, contribute greatly to both the teaching process and the construction of campus culture. Students can learn in an innovative way, and school introduces a new way to communicate with students.
Plasma TVs are usually connected to a DVD player, VCR, HDTV decoder set-top box, external audio connections, gaming services, and a PC. In most conditions, school use DVD players and PCs as the media. As a result of this, information that is to be presented through plasma TVs is commonly stored in video or DVD format.
The preparation wok of the material to be broadcasted could be huge and time-spent. If you are the person who has been assigned this task on campus, in which mean you would finish it. Maybe some of you may think that this task is a hard one which requires complex computer skills. Indeed, not everyone has a founded flash, programming skill, but with right tools, you can also make it easy.
Regarding the Powerful function that PowerPoint has, here is a way of how to make a video or DVD based upon it. Below are some advantages of doing so:
-> As PowerPoint is available on almost all computers at school, you don’t need to buy additional content authoring tools
-> PowerPoint is frequently used to prepare for courseware, teachers can operate it easily. No professional computer skills are required
-> Besides texts, you can also insert customized backgrounds, pictures, animations, movies and etc into a PowerPoint. It is ideal to form the content of your video
After you finish form the content of your video with PowerPoint, the next step is to convert it to video formats or burn it to onto DVD discs.
1. Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format, here are two ways for you
-> Use Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computer
Step 1: Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images
Step 2: Import the pictures to your Windows Movie Maker
Step 3: Select all the imported images and add them to the Storyboard
Step 4: Add video effects to the slides (optional)
Step 5: Save the slide show as Movie File
-> Use some professional tools which will make this job easy such as Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter.BTW, there are many other ways out there of converting your PowerPoint presentations to video, you may find more by searching on Google.
2. Burn the PowerPoint onto a DVD disc:
If your prefer DVD as the media, you may find many tools on Google. I wrote an article about burn PowerPoint to DVD, you can click here to read it. It introduces 5ways for you, including free ways and cost-effective ways.
With the tips mentioned above, I believe creating a video or DVD for your school is not as difficult as you think. Just play the video or DVD on the PC, your information could be viewed everywhere on the campus where the plasma TV is deployed.
2009年1月5日星期一
Video Resume Tips- How to Create a Successful Video Resume
The global financial crisis is now having an obvious impact on every walk of life. Unemployment in 30 of the world's wealthiest countries is expected to rise by some 8 million people in the next two years as the severest recession since the 1980s takes hold, according to an Economic Outlook report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This translates into 42 million unemployed in OECD countries in 2010.
As vacancies continue to evaporate, competition for any job available will become fiercer. After the Christmas holiday, there surely will be a range of intense competition for vacant positions. Want to improve the efficiency of hunting a job? Want more companies get your profile? Here resumes play an important role in the first place.
Except traditional resumes, video resumes have now become one of the hottest new ways to showcase candidacy for a wide range of jobs. This is all due to the quick development of Internet. As a result of it, increasing number of people turn to Internet for old problems. Creating a resume video on YouTube might be the next wave in human resource acquisitions.
A video resume is just a way for job seekers to showcase their abilities beyond the capabilities of a traditional paper resume. The video resume allows prospective employers to see, hear and get a feel for how the applicant presents themselves.
As it how to create a professional video resume, you will get some tips in the following paragraphs. Instead of just using a camera to prepare for a video resume, here I would like to introduce a more perfect way. That is, do it with PowerPoint. Then upload the PowerPoint (in video format) to websites.
Here is a main benefit of doing so: Besides the video you created with your camera, you can also insert some other contents into your video resume with PowerPoint, such as texts (your written statements), pictures (photos of the awards you won), animations and other online videos. This could help show you more comprehensively.
Below are some respects you should pay attention to while capturing the video with camera:
-> Dress properly just as if you were going to an in-person interview
-> Eyes looking at the camera, don’t look around
-> Don’t speak too fast
-> Make sure there is no background noise
-> Discuss why you would be a good employee and what you can do for the company once you were hired
-> Focus on your professional endeavors, not your personal ones
-> The video should not be too long
-> If the video is not perfect, start over
Respects you should pay attention to when preparing the PowerPoint:
-> Use template effectively, since it is for your resume, business or simple style would be better
-> Present your topic by using key phrases
-> Limit the number of slides, too many slides would make prospective employers tired to view
-> Embedding suitable photos and charts could add variety
-> Make the Text’s color and background’s color contrastive
-> Make sure the voice of the video you captured is loud enough
After you finish creating your resume with PowerPoint, the next step is to convert the PowerPoint to video format so that you can upload the PowerPoint to websites. Here are two ways for you to do this:
1. Use some professional conversion tool to help you do this. When searching in Google, you will get lots of advises. When it comes to ease of use, a nice feature set and pure speed of solution, this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter becomes a good choice. It is designed to help users convert PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats for easily uploaded to websites.
2. Use Camtasia – a screen video capture program. First save your PPT file in PPS format and set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen. Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press F9 to start recording the screen. When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to stop the recording. After that, you will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, choose a directory and enter a filename for it. Finally, save your capture in AVI format.
Besides uploading your video resume to your own web site, blog and YouTube, there are also some other professional career networking sites, such as MyWorkster, CareerBuilder and Jobster. They all have a section of your profile where you can include video. It would be convenient for employers to view it. Also, you can include a link of your video resume in your paper/online resume to promote it.
Here is a YouTube video made with PowerPoint which introduces several great examples of resume objectives, summaries and profiles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Lp8Ts27bM. Take a look and hope it would help you prepare a better resume.
In the new year, may everyone have a good job and a happy time.
As vacancies continue to evaporate, competition for any job available will become fiercer. After the Christmas holiday, there surely will be a range of intense competition for vacant positions. Want to improve the efficiency of hunting a job? Want more companies get your profile? Here resumes play an important role in the first place.
Except traditional resumes, video resumes have now become one of the hottest new ways to showcase candidacy for a wide range of jobs. This is all due to the quick development of Internet. As a result of it, increasing number of people turn to Internet for old problems. Creating a resume video on YouTube might be the next wave in human resource acquisitions.
A video resume is just a way for job seekers to showcase their abilities beyond the capabilities of a traditional paper resume. The video resume allows prospective employers to see, hear and get a feel for how the applicant presents themselves.
As it how to create a professional video resume, you will get some tips in the following paragraphs. Instead of just using a camera to prepare for a video resume, here I would like to introduce a more perfect way. That is, do it with PowerPoint. Then upload the PowerPoint (in video format) to websites.
Here is a main benefit of doing so: Besides the video you created with your camera, you can also insert some other contents into your video resume with PowerPoint, such as texts (your written statements), pictures (photos of the awards you won), animations and other online videos. This could help show you more comprehensively.
Below are some respects you should pay attention to while capturing the video with camera:
-> Dress properly just as if you were going to an in-person interview
-> Eyes looking at the camera, don’t look around
-> Don’t speak too fast
-> Make sure there is no background noise
-> Discuss why you would be a good employee and what you can do for the company once you were hired
-> Focus on your professional endeavors, not your personal ones
-> The video should not be too long
-> If the video is not perfect, start over
Respects you should pay attention to when preparing the PowerPoint:
-> Use template effectively, since it is for your resume, business or simple style would be better
-> Present your topic by using key phrases
-> Limit the number of slides, too many slides would make prospective employers tired to view
-> Embedding suitable photos and charts could add variety
-> Make the Text’s color and background’s color contrastive
-> Make sure the voice of the video you captured is loud enough
After you finish creating your resume with PowerPoint, the next step is to convert the PowerPoint to video format so that you can upload the PowerPoint to websites. Here are two ways for you to do this:
1. Use some professional conversion tool to help you do this. When searching in Google, you will get lots of advises. When it comes to ease of use, a nice feature set and pure speed of solution, this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter becomes a good choice. It is designed to help users convert PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats for easily uploaded to websites.
2. Use Camtasia – a screen video capture program. First save your PPT file in PPS format and set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen. Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press F9 to start recording the screen. When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to stop the recording. After that, you will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, choose a directory and enter a filename for it. Finally, save your capture in AVI format.
Besides uploading your video resume to your own web site, blog and YouTube, there are also some other professional career networking sites, such as MyWorkster, CareerBuilder and Jobster. They all have a section of your profile where you can include video. It would be convenient for employers to view it. Also, you can include a link of your video resume in your paper/online resume to promote it.
Here is a YouTube video made with PowerPoint which introduces several great examples of resume objectives, summaries and profiles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Lp8Ts27bM. Take a look and hope it would help you prepare a better resume.
In the new year, may everyone have a good job and a happy time.
2008年12月12日星期五
Christmas ideas – Making Christmas card with PowerPoint and podcast it on YouTube
Christmas is around the corner! Want to wish your dear ones blessings of joy on this special day? Sending elegant Christmas cards may be a good idea. Especially with the development of the Internet, more and more people tend to send electronic cards instead of paper-based ones to their friends and relatives.
Compared to the traditional cards, ecards are lively and more environment friendly. Besides, it is faster to give your wish by sending an ecard than mailing a postcard. As PC computers getting popular in modern life, ecard is easy to be accessed.
There are many web sites online on which you may find thousands of stunning Christmas cards. But many of them are alike, and no one allows you to create your own. How about DIY your own Christmas ecards? It will be more fun and you are allowed to make full use of your imagination to make your own e-card as interesting as possible. Send the most sincere greetings to your dear ones. Now, let me show you the way of making your own Christmas card.
Since MS PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker are available on most computers, below is a way of how to make a special and lively Christmas card yourself with the help of these two tools step by step.
1. If you want to personalize a video in your Christmas card
You can make use of the free tool Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. You can either directly capture a video from the video capture device or make one with existing videos, pictures and music. After the video is OK, you can further add effects, transitions and titles to the video. In simply 3 steps, a personalized video will be created.
Below is an example of how to capture a video for your Christmas card with WMM:
- Click Capture from video device in the Movie Tasks menu
- In the coming page, you can set the Mic Volume and configure the camera & video settings
- Click Next. Then you will be able to see a blank needs you to enter a file name for your captured video and the place you want to save it on your computer.
- Click Next to continue. In the coming page, choose the video setting for your captured video. Choose Best Quality for Playback on my Computer is recommended.
- Go on clicking Next to the last step. In this page, you can start to capture video by clicking Start Capture, end the capture by clicking Stop Capture.
- After you have finished capture a video yourself, click Finish to end this process. The captured video will be displayed at the Collection area. Drag it to the video area in Timeline board. If you still want to add other pictures or music to form your video, you can do this by clicking Import Pictures and Import Audio or Music in the Movie Tasks menu. Then drag all of them to the corresponding area in Timeline board below.
Right click each object in the Timeline board. Then you will be able to set the Video Effects and the Play Timeline for them.
- After you have adjusted all the settings for your video, you can save the video onto your computer by clicking Save Movie File in the File tab.
2. Form the content of your Christmas card with PowerPoint
As PowerPoint allows you to insert customized backgrounds, characters, pictures, animations, movies, and etc, you can take this advantage to make the content of your Christmas card colorful and meaningful. The video you made with Windows Movie Maker can also be inserted into the PowerPoint. Besides, you can input greetings and warm wishes into the PowerPoint.
In this process, you just need to make full use of your imagination to create the e- card.
3. Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format
The last step for making your own e- card is to convert the PowerPoint you made to video format. In this way, you can make your e- card look like a movie and upload it to websites such as YouTube for wide sharing. After that, you can send out your Christmas greetings just with a video or a website link.
Here you can try this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, it is designed to convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.
Currently, the company has launched their Christmas sale, each product are sold at a favorable price.
Here are two DIY Christmas cards from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SLY_HfO-pQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfvSOuwM_4&feature=related
Interesting? Take actions now, make Christmas ecard by yourself. Send out your warmest and most sincere greetings to your friends and relatives. Have a merry Christmas!
Compared to the traditional cards, ecards are lively and more environment friendly. Besides, it is faster to give your wish by sending an ecard than mailing a postcard. As PC computers getting popular in modern life, ecard is easy to be accessed.
There are many web sites online on which you may find thousands of stunning Christmas cards. But many of them are alike, and no one allows you to create your own. How about DIY your own Christmas ecards? It will be more fun and you are allowed to make full use of your imagination to make your own e-card as interesting as possible. Send the most sincere greetings to your dear ones. Now, let me show you the way of making your own Christmas card.
Since MS PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker are available on most computers, below is a way of how to make a special and lively Christmas card yourself with the help of these two tools step by step.
1. If you want to personalize a video in your Christmas card
You can make use of the free tool Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. You can either directly capture a video from the video capture device or make one with existing videos, pictures and music. After the video is OK, you can further add effects, transitions and titles to the video. In simply 3 steps, a personalized video will be created.
Below is an example of how to capture a video for your Christmas card with WMM:
- Click Capture from video device in the Movie Tasks menu
- In the coming page, you can set the Mic Volume and configure the camera & video settings
- Click Next. Then you will be able to see a blank needs you to enter a file name for your captured video and the place you want to save it on your computer.
- Click Next to continue. In the coming page, choose the video setting for your captured video. Choose Best Quality for Playback on my Computer is recommended.
- Go on clicking Next to the last step. In this page, you can start to capture video by clicking Start Capture, end the capture by clicking Stop Capture.
- After you have finished capture a video yourself, click Finish to end this process. The captured video will be displayed at the Collection area. Drag it to the video area in Timeline board. If you still want to add other pictures or music to form your video, you can do this by clicking Import Pictures and Import Audio or Music in the Movie Tasks menu. Then drag all of them to the corresponding area in Timeline board below.
Right click each object in the Timeline board. Then you will be able to set the Video Effects and the Play Timeline for them.
- After you have adjusted all the settings for your video, you can save the video onto your computer by clicking Save Movie File in the File tab.
2. Form the content of your Christmas card with PowerPoint
As PowerPoint allows you to insert customized backgrounds, characters, pictures, animations, movies, and etc, you can take this advantage to make the content of your Christmas card colorful and meaningful. The video you made with Windows Movie Maker can also be inserted into the PowerPoint. Besides, you can input greetings and warm wishes into the PowerPoint.
In this process, you just need to make full use of your imagination to create the e- card.
3. Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format
The last step for making your own e- card is to convert the PowerPoint you made to video format. In this way, you can make your e- card look like a movie and upload it to websites such as YouTube for wide sharing. After that, you can send out your Christmas greetings just with a video or a website link.
Here you can try this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, it is designed to convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.
Currently, the company has launched their Christmas sale, each product are sold at a favorable price.
Here are two DIY Christmas cards from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SLY_HfO-pQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfvSOuwM_4&feature=related
Interesting? Take actions now, make Christmas ecard by yourself. Send out your warmest and most sincere greetings to your friends and relatives. Have a merry Christmas!
2008年11月27日星期四
How to insert Flash Video to PowerPoint and convert PowerPoint to FLV
What is FLV video format?
FLV is the short term for Flash Video, a kind of video format that is accepted by many websites. Notable users of the flash video format include YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space.
How to insert FLV into PowerPoint?
Now and then, you may find attractive videos in FLV format on the above websites such as YouTube. Want to embed them in your PowerPoint and share with others?
As FLV is a video format that PowerPoint doesn’t accept, before embedding a FLV video into PowerPoint, you should convert FLV movie to a video format that PowerPoint accepts such as MPEG, AVI, WMV and ASF. Below are three ways for you to do this:
1. If the FLV video is on YouTube or MySpace, follow these steps:
Copy the YouTube or MySpace video URL >>
Go to http://vixy.net (a free online conversion service), paste the URL in the conversion box >>
Select the output format such as AVI, MOV and MP4. Then click Start. The conversion process would be done automatically >>
When the conversion is done, download the output video to the local disk on your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)
2. If the FLV video is already on your computer, visit http://www.media-convert.com/ (a free online conversion service) and follow these steps:
Browse your local disk and select the FLV video needs to be converted >>
Select the output format you want, and click OK button on the right >>
When the conversion process is over, download the converted video to your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)
3. Use some conversion software to do this: If you have lots of FLV videos need to be converted, you can use some professional conversion tool to help you save your time, because many tools support batch conversion. You can try this one Video Converter. It can help you convert your FLV (YouTube) video to almost all other video formats.
After inserting Flash Video from popular video sites to your PowerPoint, have you ever thought you can also upload your PowerPoint to these popular video sites for wide sharing? You can click here to know more benefits of uploading PowerPoint to online-sharing websites.
As it has been mentioned above, YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space all accept video formats in FLV. Before uploading your PowerPoint to these sites, you need to convert your PowerPoint to FLV first. Here are some tools you can use to convert your PowerPoint to FLV.
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT to Video: help convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.
After converting your PowerPoint to FLV, the next step is to upload the converted video to these websites. It’s all that easy. For more details about how to do it step by step, you can click here.
Choose the method you like to insert flash video to your PowerPoint, and convert your PowerPoint to FLV. Have more fun about it.
FLV is the short term for Flash Video, a kind of video format that is accepted by many websites. Notable users of the flash video format include YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space.
How to insert FLV into PowerPoint?
Now and then, you may find attractive videos in FLV format on the above websites such as YouTube. Want to embed them in your PowerPoint and share with others?
As FLV is a video format that PowerPoint doesn’t accept, before embedding a FLV video into PowerPoint, you should convert FLV movie to a video format that PowerPoint accepts such as MPEG, AVI, WMV and ASF. Below are three ways for you to do this:
1. If the FLV video is on YouTube or MySpace, follow these steps:
Copy the YouTube or MySpace video URL >>
Go to http://vixy.net (a free online conversion service), paste the URL in the conversion box >>
Select the output format such as AVI, MOV and MP4. Then click Start. The conversion process would be done automatically >>
When the conversion is done, download the output video to the local disk on your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)
2. If the FLV video is already on your computer, visit http://www.media-convert.com/ (a free online conversion service) and follow these steps:
Browse your local disk and select the FLV video needs to be converted >>
Select the output format you want, and click OK button on the right >>
When the conversion process is over, download the converted video to your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)
3. Use some conversion software to do this: If you have lots of FLV videos need to be converted, you can use some professional conversion tool to help you save your time, because many tools support batch conversion. You can try this one Video Converter. It can help you convert your FLV (YouTube) video to almost all other video formats.
After inserting Flash Video from popular video sites to your PowerPoint, have you ever thought you can also upload your PowerPoint to these popular video sites for wide sharing? You can click here to know more benefits of uploading PowerPoint to online-sharing websites.
As it has been mentioned above, YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space all accept video formats in FLV. Before uploading your PowerPoint to these sites, you need to convert your PowerPoint to FLV first. Here are some tools you can use to convert your PowerPoint to FLV.
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT to Video: help convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.
After converting your PowerPoint to FLV, the next step is to upload the converted video to these websites. It’s all that easy. For more details about how to do it step by step, you can click here.
Choose the method you like to insert flash video to your PowerPoint, and convert your PowerPoint to FLV. Have more fun about it.
2008年11月9日星期日
Use Product Presentation to Boom your Sale during Christmas
As Christmas is coming, most business men would like to bet their sales fortune on this shopping season. In order to attract prospects at the critical first impression, appealing presentations are important to presenting your products in the best light possible. Especially under such an economic circumstance, using some cost-effective ways to help you promote your product is meaningful.
Why use PowerPoint to help you promote your product:
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. And with the development of information technology, product presentation has become a powerful ad format for presenting products or for special promotions.
2. You can broadcast your product presentation on big screens in the main streets, on mobile TV, on Internet and so on.
3. Compared to asking an advertising company to make advertisement for you, making PowerPoint ad by yourself may help you save a lot.
As it to how to make an effective product PowerPoint presentation to advertise your product, below are some points that Mark J. Tiedeman points out. (Note: Mark Tiedeman has over 25 years in the high-tech telecommunications industry including 15 years in senior product management and marketing roles. He has served as Vice President of Marketing at Copper Mountain Networks and at Tut Systems and is currently providing marketing and product management consulting services.)
Before starting any product presentation, you should know what the purpose of your presentation is. As a product presentation, the purpose is to enhance the value of the product that is perceived by the audience. Depending on the circumstance, some presentations will be more overt than others in persuasion style.
The next important thing is to fix who the audience is for your presentation. Product presentation audiences can be segmented as follows:
• Within your company: sales, sales engineer, customer support, marketing, product management
• Distribution or solution partner: sales, sales engineer, engineering, support, marketing, manager, executive
• Customer: purchasing, engineering, operations, support, manager, executive. Additionally, customers should be segmented, as appropriate, by market and/or application.
• Investors
• Industry and market analysts
• Media
For more details of how to create an effective product presentation by Mark J. Tiedeman, you can click here: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/4/4/0608mjt
A well-done product presentation is just the first step of making advertisement for your product. To present it in various ways is the final purpose of making the masterpiece. Only in this way, you can make the most of your product presentation and let more potential users get your promotion idea. Finally sell out your product. Regarding this, below I list some most effective ways to help you present your product presentation.
1. Convert your product presentation to video. Then you will be able to upload the converted video to website in the advertising area; broadcast your product presentation on digital signage indoors and outdoors; let people see your promotion on TV within transport vehicles.
Benefits of doing so: Creating video advertisement with PowerPoint yourself is much more cost-effective than asking a third-party company to do that. And PowerPoint is easy to deal with. You can fix the content you want to spread freely.
In order to do this, all you need is a PowerPoint converter that can help you concert your product presentation to video. There are many such tools in the market, but here I would like to recommend some tools that I have experienced and function well. Wondershare PPT to Video and Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter. They can help you convert your PowerPoint to MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP and MOV that can be accepted by almost all media.
2. Burn your product presentation to DVD. Then you will be able to send a DVD disc to your premium customers and agents to provide them the promotion information.
Benefits of doing so: compared with written promotion documents, DVD promotion slideshow can be accepted more intuitively, as there can be animation, pictures, transitions and even background music, videos in a PowerPoint.
Also, with a DVD disc, your agents can conveniently spread the promotion information to their stuff by playing it on a big screen.
Tool recommended: Wondershare PPT2DVD. With it, you can also create DVD menus for your presentations for quick navigation.
A great product presentation could be the power for your Christmas boom. Use all effective tools and resources as you can to drive up your Christmas business.
Why use PowerPoint to help you promote your product:
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. And with the development of information technology, product presentation has become a powerful ad format for presenting products or for special promotions.
2. You can broadcast your product presentation on big screens in the main streets, on mobile TV, on Internet and so on.
3. Compared to asking an advertising company to make advertisement for you, making PowerPoint ad by yourself may help you save a lot.
As it to how to make an effective product PowerPoint presentation to advertise your product, below are some points that Mark J. Tiedeman points out. (Note: Mark Tiedeman has over 25 years in the high-tech telecommunications industry including 15 years in senior product management and marketing roles. He has served as Vice President of Marketing at Copper Mountain Networks and at Tut Systems and is currently providing marketing and product management consulting services.)
Before starting any product presentation, you should know what the purpose of your presentation is. As a product presentation, the purpose is to enhance the value of the product that is perceived by the audience. Depending on the circumstance, some presentations will be more overt than others in persuasion style.
The next important thing is to fix who the audience is for your presentation. Product presentation audiences can be segmented as follows:
• Within your company: sales, sales engineer, customer support, marketing, product management
• Distribution or solution partner: sales, sales engineer, engineering, support, marketing, manager, executive
• Customer: purchasing, engineering, operations, support, manager, executive. Additionally, customers should be segmented, as appropriate, by market and/or application.
• Investors
• Industry and market analysts
• Media
For more details of how to create an effective product presentation by Mark J. Tiedeman, you can click here: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/4/4/0608mjt
A well-done product presentation is just the first step of making advertisement for your product. To present it in various ways is the final purpose of making the masterpiece. Only in this way, you can make the most of your product presentation and let more potential users get your promotion idea. Finally sell out your product. Regarding this, below I list some most effective ways to help you present your product presentation.
1. Convert your product presentation to video. Then you will be able to upload the converted video to website in the advertising area; broadcast your product presentation on digital signage indoors and outdoors; let people see your promotion on TV within transport vehicles.
Benefits of doing so: Creating video advertisement with PowerPoint yourself is much more cost-effective than asking a third-party company to do that. And PowerPoint is easy to deal with. You can fix the content you want to spread freely.
In order to do this, all you need is a PowerPoint converter that can help you concert your product presentation to video. There are many such tools in the market, but here I would like to recommend some tools that I have experienced and function well. Wondershare PPT to Video and Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter. They can help you convert your PowerPoint to MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP and MOV that can be accepted by almost all media.
2. Burn your product presentation to DVD. Then you will be able to send a DVD disc to your premium customers and agents to provide them the promotion information.
Benefits of doing so: compared with written promotion documents, DVD promotion slideshow can be accepted more intuitively, as there can be animation, pictures, transitions and even background music, videos in a PowerPoint.
Also, with a DVD disc, your agents can conveniently spread the promotion information to their stuff by playing it on a big screen.
Tool recommended: Wondershare PPT2DVD. With it, you can also create DVD menus for your presentations for quick navigation.
A great product presentation could be the power for your Christmas boom. Use all effective tools and resources as you can to drive up your Christmas business.
2008年10月23日星期四
Tips for making PowerPoint courseware and how to distribute it
In modern education, PowerPoint is frequently used when preparing courseware. A judicious use of this tool helps guarantee a high-quality class. However, if it is used ineffectively, it can obscure teaching content, turn a great lesson into computer chaos. So using PowerPoint courseware effectively in teaching is very important.
Below are some main tips of ensuring a well-designed PowerPoint courseware.
1. Set Your Goals
Before starting any PowerPoint courseware, ask yourself a question, “What is the goal of this lesson?” Goal is the key. You cannot well organize your class without figuring out the goal of a lesson. Many educators suggest using an outline to list clearly what skill or knowledge is being assessed. Brainstorm in mind, and then outline your ideas in PowerPoint.
And, the most important thing, be sure to weigh content heavily in the assessment tool, don’t let style to take precedence over content.
2. Style Matters
Avoid using too many animations, clip art, backgrounds and so on. But keep in mind that a judicious use of those tools can be effective. Below is a research on under which set of conditions people learn best.
• Hearing spoken text and looking at graphics – 91% more learning,
• Looking at graphics alone – 63% more,
• Reading printed text plus looking at graphics – 56% more,
• Listening to spoken text, reading text, and looking at graphics – 46% more,
• Hearing spoken text plus reading printed text – 32% more,
• Reading printed text alone – 12% more,
• Hearing spoken text alone – 7% more.
3. Other tips of creating teaching presentations• Include only 3-7 points per slide and 3-7 words per bullet
• One theme or background; one font set; one text animation effect
• Avoid using complete sentences, using clause instead
• Don’t show all points on a slide at once, otherwise, students will read ahead and stop listening to the presentation
• Challenge students to use pictures in stead of text, initiate talking with students and among students
According to different teaching contents and teaching goals, pay attention to the tips above, I presume doing a successful PowerPoint courseware is not a hard thing.
After creating your wonderful PowerPoint courseware, you may sometimes receive appeals from your students and colleagues to share it, or you want to make your PowerPoint courseware be available online. The next and more important thing is to present and distribute it in a proper way so that more people can benefit from it. In the following, I would like to introduce some ways to help you distribute your PowerPoint courseware well.
1. Directly e-mail your PowerPoint courseware to others
It is a way that many people could think. And it is also easy to operate, just attach the PPT file and then send it to others via e-mail. But in this way, the people who receive it should have a MS PowerPoint installed computer. Besides, the PPT file sent to others could be modified by others.
2. Burn your PowerPoint courseware to DVD/CD
As DVD discs are convenient for sharing. Burning your PowerPoint to DVD/CD will be ideal for distributing your courseware. You no longer need to worry if others have PowerPoint installed or not because DVD discs are supported by most computers and players. You can click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD, and create eye-catching DVD menus for your presentations.
3. Convert your PowerPoint to video/flash, then upload it to website or blog
You may have your own website or blog, upload your PowerPoint courseware to it can make your students and others see your PowerPoint courseware as long as they visit your web page. In order to do this, you will need to convert your PowerPoint to video or flash first. Tools recommended: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT2Flash. You can click here to know more about the benefits of converting your PowerPoint to video.
4. Convert your PowerPoint courseware to PDF
PDF is accepted by many people as it is easy to open and can be printed easily. Convert your PowerPoint courseware to PDF is also a good idea to distribute your PowerPoint. You can click here to get the tool to convert your PowerPoint to PDF.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful teaching tool. It can greatly improve the efficiency of teaching. So take the advantages of PowerPoint courseware, make your class more interesting and let more people get your teaching ideas.
Below are some main tips of ensuring a well-designed PowerPoint courseware.
1. Set Your Goals
Before starting any PowerPoint courseware, ask yourself a question, “What is the goal of this lesson?” Goal is the key. You cannot well organize your class without figuring out the goal of a lesson. Many educators suggest using an outline to list clearly what skill or knowledge is being assessed. Brainstorm in mind, and then outline your ideas in PowerPoint.
And, the most important thing, be sure to weigh content heavily in the assessment tool, don’t let style to take precedence over content.
2. Style Matters
Avoid using too many animations, clip art, backgrounds and so on. But keep in mind that a judicious use of those tools can be effective. Below is a research on under which set of conditions people learn best.
• Hearing spoken text and looking at graphics – 91% more learning,
• Looking at graphics alone – 63% more,
• Reading printed text plus looking at graphics – 56% more,
• Listening to spoken text, reading text, and looking at graphics – 46% more,
• Hearing spoken text plus reading printed text – 32% more,
• Reading printed text alone – 12% more,
• Hearing spoken text alone – 7% more.
3. Other tips of creating teaching presentations• Include only 3-7 points per slide and 3-7 words per bullet
• One theme or background; one font set; one text animation effect
• Avoid using complete sentences, using clause instead
• Don’t show all points on a slide at once, otherwise, students will read ahead and stop listening to the presentation
• Challenge students to use pictures in stead of text, initiate talking with students and among students
According to different teaching contents and teaching goals, pay attention to the tips above, I presume doing a successful PowerPoint courseware is not a hard thing.
After creating your wonderful PowerPoint courseware, you may sometimes receive appeals from your students and colleagues to share it, or you want to make your PowerPoint courseware be available online. The next and more important thing is to present and distribute it in a proper way so that more people can benefit from it. In the following, I would like to introduce some ways to help you distribute your PowerPoint courseware well.
1. Directly e-mail your PowerPoint courseware to others
It is a way that many people could think. And it is also easy to operate, just attach the PPT file and then send it to others via e-mail. But in this way, the people who receive it should have a MS PowerPoint installed computer. Besides, the PPT file sent to others could be modified by others.
2. Burn your PowerPoint courseware to DVD/CD
As DVD discs are convenient for sharing. Burning your PowerPoint to DVD/CD will be ideal for distributing your courseware. You no longer need to worry if others have PowerPoint installed or not because DVD discs are supported by most computers and players. You can click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD, and create eye-catching DVD menus for your presentations.
3. Convert your PowerPoint to video/flash, then upload it to website or blog
You may have your own website or blog, upload your PowerPoint courseware to it can make your students and others see your PowerPoint courseware as long as they visit your web page. In order to do this, you will need to convert your PowerPoint to video or flash first. Tools recommended: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT2Flash. You can click here to know more about the benefits of converting your PowerPoint to video.
4. Convert your PowerPoint courseware to PDF
PDF is accepted by many people as it is easy to open and can be printed easily. Convert your PowerPoint courseware to PDF is also a good idea to distribute your PowerPoint. You can click here to get the tool to convert your PowerPoint to PDF.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful teaching tool. It can greatly improve the efficiency of teaching. So take the advantages of PowerPoint courseware, make your class more interesting and let more people get your teaching ideas.
2008年10月4日星期六
Create DVD Menus for Your Presentations
Burning PowerPoint to DVD is a good solution of preserving PowerPoint presentations and preventing them from being edited by others. Also, by burning PowerPoint to DVD is ideal for viewing PowerPoint presentations through various media. But have you ever thought that you can create DVD menus for your presentations to be viewed on TV with a DVD remote control just like a movie?
With eye-catching DVD menus, one can easily catch audience’s attention and set quick navigation for the PowerPoint presentations. Here below is a ready-made DVD menu for some PowerPoint presentations.
Also want to make one for your own presentations? So follow the step-by-step guide of how to burn PowerPoint to DVD with Acoolsoft PPT2DVD and create stunning DVD menus.
1. Install Acoolsoft PPT2DVD on your computer and open it. You can get it free from here.
2. Click Import button to choose the presentations you want to convert.
3. Click DVD Menu button on the top navigation, and then you will come to the DVD menu page. Click DVD Menu Creator button, then you will be able to start to customize the DVD menu for your presentations.
Here you can set the background, button style, frame style, icon style, caption and more to the current selected menu. In the preview area, it shows the preview for the current menu, and changes will be shown in real-time when you design it. Tool pane is used to set properties of current menu.
4. Tool Pane:
In the Background tab, you can choose a background for your menu from the gallery that the program itself offers, or choose one from your own computer. There are several different types of background for you to choose, including business/exhibition type, education/training type, holiday/celebration type, nature/environment type, religious/spiritual type and others.
You can also set background music for the current selected menu by clicking Background Music button.
In the Button Style tab, you can set the button style, frame style and the icon style for each of your menu. There are many different options for you. You can choose a proper one according to your own interest.
Apply to All is used to apply your settings to all your menus.
In the Caption tab, you can edit the caption of a selected object just as in word.
In Advanced tab, you can tick Disable this menu button to disable current menu, and you will need to select an action that will be taken at the end of show. In Menu Options, it lists the options on current menu. You can remove corresponding object by removing the tick of the item.
5. Want to see how the DVD menu you’ve created will work in real time? So follow this step. On the top right of the DVD Menu page, you can see a DVD remote control simulator.
This is a soft-remote-control integrated in menu simulator. You can find those buttons on normal DVD remote controls. The simulator includes four cross direction selection buttons, which allow you to select items on the menu, and the center one is the confirm button. The Menu and Title button are for switching to different menus when playing presentation.
6. Choose output options, video settings and advanced settings for your presentation and burn your PowerPoint presentations to DVD without attendance.
It’s all that easy to finish the whole process of designing specific DVD menu for your PowerPoint presentations. Start now, burn PowerPoint to DVD and enjoy the happy time it brings to you. Click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD.
With eye-catching DVD menus, one can easily catch audience’s attention and set quick navigation for the PowerPoint presentations. Here below is a ready-made DVD menu for some PowerPoint presentations.
Also want to make one for your own presentations? So follow the step-by-step guide of how to burn PowerPoint to DVD with Acoolsoft PPT2DVD and create stunning DVD menus.
1. Install Acoolsoft PPT2DVD on your computer and open it. You can get it free from here.
2. Click Import button to choose the presentations you want to convert.
3. Click DVD Menu button on the top navigation, and then you will come to the DVD menu page. Click DVD Menu Creator button, then you will be able to start to customize the DVD menu for your presentations.
Here you can set the background, button style, frame style, icon style, caption and more to the current selected menu. In the preview area, it shows the preview for the current menu, and changes will be shown in real-time when you design it. Tool pane is used to set properties of current menu.
4. Tool Pane:
In the Background tab, you can choose a background for your menu from the gallery that the program itself offers, or choose one from your own computer. There are several different types of background for you to choose, including business/exhibition type, education/training type, holiday/celebration type, nature/environment type, religious/spiritual type and others.
You can also set background music for the current selected menu by clicking Background Music button.
In the Button Style tab, you can set the button style, frame style and the icon style for each of your menu. There are many different options for you. You can choose a proper one according to your own interest.
Apply to All is used to apply your settings to all your menus.
In the Caption tab, you can edit the caption of a selected object just as in word.
In Advanced tab, you can tick Disable this menu button to disable current menu, and you will need to select an action that will be taken at the end of show. In Menu Options, it lists the options on current menu. You can remove corresponding object by removing the tick of the item.
5. Want to see how the DVD menu you’ve created will work in real time? So follow this step. On the top right of the DVD Menu page, you can see a DVD remote control simulator.
This is a soft-remote-control integrated in menu simulator. You can find those buttons on normal DVD remote controls. The simulator includes four cross direction selection buttons, which allow you to select items on the menu, and the center one is the confirm button. The Menu and Title button are for switching to different menus when playing presentation.
6. Choose output options, video settings and advanced settings for your presentation and burn your PowerPoint presentations to DVD without attendance.
It’s all that easy to finish the whole process of designing specific DVD menu for your PowerPoint presentations. Start now, burn PowerPoint to DVD and enjoy the happy time it brings to you. Click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD.
2008年9月16日星期二
Create Digital Photo Albums with PowerPoint 2007
You may have precious photographs or important business pictures from time to time. A PowerPoint photo album is just a presentation that helps you store and display these photos in a digital way.
Why we want to make photo album with PowerPoint?
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. You don’t need to buy other software to make a photo album. It is easy and cost-effective to do it with PowerPoint.
2. Show your photos according to the sequence you like, make your memories more beautiful.
3. Besides photos, you can also add effects such as attention-grabbing slide transitions, colorful backgrounds, specific picture layouts and more into your PowerPoint photo album.
4. A photo album that is made in PowerPoint is easy for wide sharing.
Below is the step of how to create an attractive digital photo album with PowerPoint 2007 in 6 steps:
1. Open PowerPoint, on the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.
2. Insert pictures
Click File/Disc button. Choose pictures you want to include in the album from folders on your hard disc. (Tip: you can import several pictures to the album at a time)
In the photo album dialogue box, you will see the selected pictures in the Picture in Album list. You can view each picture by clicking it. And you can also change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button. Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.
3. Create album layout
Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like. By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.
4. Create title and subtitle for your album
After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album. Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.
Display Slide 2, click the title placeholder, and then type the title for this slide.
5. Edit the photo album
On the Insert tab, click the Photo Album arrow, and then click Edit Photo Album.
In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select Captions below All pictures box, and then click Update.
Now you can edit the file name below each picture with a suitable caption.
6. Apply a theme to your album
On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.
Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer.
Now you have finished making your own PowerPoint photo album. Want to e-mail it to your friends or colleague? Want to share it with others? Or you want to keep it for permanent store? Below are a few tips about how to do this.
1. E-mail your photo album to others
Maybe you will find that the photo album is in a huge size due to the mountainous images added in it, and you can’t send it properly via e-mail. In order to reduce the size of it, you can use compressed pictures in your photo album.
How: Open bitmap image with a program that converts images and save the image in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf. Once your image has been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your photo album.
Here is an article tells how to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint
2. Share your photo album with others
You can upload your beautiful photo album to some online sharing websites, such as YouTube. Let more people enjoy it or let your friends view your photo album online.
How: Convert your Photo album to a certain format that YouTube accepts. Then upload it with your YouTube account.
Tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
It helps you easily convert your photo album to WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPEG formats that can be accepted by YouTube. After the conversion, you can directly upload it.
Click here to get the tutorial about how to do it
3. Keep your photo album for permanent store
The photo album you make maybe valuable and meaningful. In order to store it and prevent it from being edited by others, so far the best way I know maybe is to record it on a DVD disc. As we know things stored in a digital way could be easily lost.
How: Use some professional tool to help you burn your photo album to DVD such as the PowerPoint to DVD tool from Acoolsoft.
Click here to get the tutorial about how to do it
To view the finished PowerPoint photo album is an enjoyable thing. The process of making it is also interesting. So, when are you going to create your next photo album? Very soon, I presume.
Why we want to make photo album with PowerPoint?
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. You don’t need to buy other software to make a photo album. It is easy and cost-effective to do it with PowerPoint.
2. Show your photos according to the sequence you like, make your memories more beautiful.
3. Besides photos, you can also add effects such as attention-grabbing slide transitions, colorful backgrounds, specific picture layouts and more into your PowerPoint photo album.
4. A photo album that is made in PowerPoint is easy for wide sharing.
Below is the step of how to create an attractive digital photo album with PowerPoint 2007 in 6 steps:
1. Open PowerPoint, on the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.
2. Insert pictures
Click File/Disc button. Choose pictures you want to include in the album from folders on your hard disc. (Tip: you can import several pictures to the album at a time)
In the photo album dialogue box, you will see the selected pictures in the Picture in Album list. You can view each picture by clicking it. And you can also change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button. Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.
3. Create album layout
Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like. By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.
4. Create title and subtitle for your album
After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album. Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.
Display Slide 2, click the title placeholder, and then type the title for this slide.
5. Edit the photo album
On the Insert tab, click the Photo Album arrow, and then click Edit Photo Album.
In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select Captions below All pictures box, and then click Update.
Now you can edit the file name below each picture with a suitable caption.
6. Apply a theme to your album
On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.
Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer.
Now you have finished making your own PowerPoint photo album. Want to e-mail it to your friends or colleague? Want to share it with others? Or you want to keep it for permanent store? Below are a few tips about how to do this.
1. E-mail your photo album to others
Maybe you will find that the photo album is in a huge size due to the mountainous images added in it, and you can’t send it properly via e-mail. In order to reduce the size of it, you can use compressed pictures in your photo album.
How: Open bitmap image with a program that converts images and save the image in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf. Once your image has been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your photo album.
Here is an article tells how to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint
2. Share your photo album with others
You can upload your beautiful photo album to some online sharing websites, such as YouTube. Let more people enjoy it or let your friends view your photo album online.
How: Convert your Photo album to a certain format that YouTube accepts. Then upload it with your YouTube account.
Tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
It helps you easily convert your photo album to WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPEG formats that can be accepted by YouTube. After the conversion, you can directly upload it.
Click here to get the tutorial about how to do it
3. Keep your photo album for permanent store
The photo album you make maybe valuable and meaningful. In order to store it and prevent it from being edited by others, so far the best way I know maybe is to record it on a DVD disc. As we know things stored in a digital way could be easily lost.
How: Use some professional tool to help you burn your photo album to DVD such as the PowerPoint to DVD tool from Acoolsoft.
Click here to get the tutorial about how to do it
To view the finished PowerPoint photo album is an enjoyable thing. The process of making it is also interesting. So, when are you going to create your next photo album? Very soon, I presume.
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