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.

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.

PowerPoint Password

Nowadays, I see many people complain about the security of PowerPoint. After having put much effort in perfecting a PowerPoint, we finally find that it has been changed by someone else. If such thing happened to you, what would you be? How to protect your PowerPoint?
As to this matter, I would like to list some common ways to protect your PowerPoint presentations from being edited by others without permission.
1. To set a password to protect PowerPoint
>> In PowerPoint 2003:
1) Open the presentation that you want to set a password for.
2) On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab.
3) Need to set a password to open the presentation, type a password in the Password to open, and then click OK.
4) Need to set a password to modify the presentation, type a password in the Password to modify box, and then click OK.
5) In the Confirm Password dialog box, retype the password, and then click OK.


>> In PowerPoint 2007:
1) Open the presentation that you want to set a password for.
2) Click the Office Button, and then click Prepare.
3) Go into the Encrypt Document, and then type the password you want to set, and click Ok.
4) Reenter the password in the blank followed, and then click OK.
5) Or click Restrict Permission, people can get access to your PowerPoint but can not edit, copy or print it.
6) Furthermore, you can click Mark as Final, after this, you will only be able to read it in the future.


2. Tips when creating a password to protect PowerPoint:
Long passwords can help secure a document, but be sure to create a password that you can remember. Microsoft itself cannot provide assistance to open or modify a presentation whose password you don't remember. But a tool could help you to recover the password with a little cost. PowerPoint Password Recovery PRO is an effective solution for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that recovers all types of lost or forgotten passwords to open and modify files and supports all versions of Microsoft PowerPoint, including 2003.

3. To convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD/CD to protect your PowerPoint
>> Why: One can edit a PowerPoint presentation, but cannot modify the content in the DVD. Sharing with others and also protecting PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized editing.
>> How: (recommend)
Use a professional conversion tool to help you. Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is an innovative tool helps you easily to convert your PowerPoint presentations to dynamic DVD movies with a high quality. The final output will retain all subtleties from the original presentation, including animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, and even hyperlinks between slides.
>> Screenshot:


>> More information about this tool:
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html