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How to Share your PowerPoint Presentations in Multiple Ways

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:20:48 +0000

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. We recommend this one: Acoolsoft 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.

5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to Video

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:11:57 +0000

Benifits 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.net which 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.

Valentine Gift Ideas for Your Beloved

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:38:20 +0000

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.

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Plasma TV Used in School

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:00:09 +0000

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 in 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 you 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.

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Video Resume Tips- How to Create a Successful Video Resume

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:01:34 +0000

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:

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.
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.

Christmas Tips- Planning a Great Family Reunion and Preserving the Good Memories

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:03:34 +0000

During Christmas, most of you may hold a family reunion. Need any tips for planning a great one and preserving the good memories?

At a family reunion, you can not only share time with loved ones, but also meet your new relatives. You can seize this opportunity to gather precious genealogy information. It will be a rewarding experience. Furthermore, you can collect many stories that happened in the last year, and took photos of your families as a souvenir. The reunion itself will become part of the lore of family history.

Here I would like to list some tips for planning a great family reunion during Christmas step by step. Hope these tips can help.

Decide what kind of party to have and where to have the reunion.
Determine who will be in charge of the event. Ask for volunteers if necessary.
Choose a suitable date. The more people you plan to invite, the more advance notice you will need to give. Leave plenty of time for your guests to plan.
Make a guest list. Start with the people for whom you have complete contact information. Then call them to jog your memory about long-lost relatives.
Formulate a budget. It depends on how many people will be invited. So make your guest list carefully first.
Determine who will handle expenses. In most cases, each family member shares the cost of the event.
Prepare invitations and mail them out. Note you should include all the important details about the reunion in the invitation. Leave plenty of time for people to respond and ask everyone to make you know if they will attend.
Give a phone call to verify the guest list after the invitations. Because during Christmas, schedules are always hectic.
Reserve rooms at a hotel near the reunion site if necessary. Many hotels offer discounts for special events which require several rooms during Christmas.
Review all arrangements again. Make sure all things are prepared well. Ensuring rooms are ready, food is served promptly and accommodations are comfortable.
Make your family reunion memorable. Take plenty of photos. Hire a professional photographer or a video-camera person to film the reunion, or assign this task to an experienced family member. You also need to prepare some funny activities for the reunion.
Get a volunteer or volunteers at the reunion to make out something valuable that includes stories, photos and news items from the reunion. Then send a copy to all your families who have attended the reunion.

As it how to preserve the photos and videos taken during the family reunion, here is a small tip that may very helpful.

Insert all your photos and videos into PowerPoint. Add certain descriptions and background music into it. Or directly make a photo album with PowerPoint. After finishing making the PowerPoint, you can burn the PowerPoint to DVD with DVD menus. Then send a copy of the DVD disc to each member who has attended the family reunion as a Christmas gift.

You can click here to know how to burn PowerPoint to DVD with DVD menus step by step.

Advantages of doing so:

PowerPoint is easy to operate. It allows users to form the content freely
DVD discs are ideal for long-time store. And DVD is supported by most computers and players.

Enjoy the happy hours spent with families and have a merry Christmas with these small tips. Leave a valuable Christmas memory in mind forever.

Christmas ideas – Making Christmas card with PowerPoint and podcast it on YouTube

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:47:04 +0000

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!

How to insert Flash Video to PowerPoint and convert PowerPoint to FLV

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:40:39 +0000

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:

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)

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)

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.

New! Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter 2.0 Released

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:17:29 +0000

Nov. 26^th, 2008- Acoolsoft- the professional PowerPoint to DVD/Video solution provider, today announced the release of PPT2Video Converter 2.0 with hot features and improved quality. Based upon the strong support of numerous zealous users, Acoolsoft will definitely go on to do their best in perfecting the product.

About the product: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter is an ideal solution for converting PowerPoint to most popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, MOV and FLV.

PPT2Video Converter helps users easily convert PowerPoint to video. Besides, users can burn the converted video to DVD with third-party burning tools. It is ideal for:

- Uploading PowerPoint presentations to blog, YouTube or other online sharing websites

- Viewing presentations on most portable devices such as iPhone, iPod, Pocket PC, BlackBerry and Zune

- Watching PowerPoint presentations on TV via Apple TV

- E-mailing presentations to others with small file size

Key features:

- Intuitive user interface guarantees friendly using experience

- Preserve all elements in the original PowerPoint such as transitions, animations, sounds, movie clips and slide timing

- Support converting your PPT to videos such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV and 3GP

- Work smoothly with PowerPoint 2007 and Vista

- Batch conversion: 12 PowerPoint presentations can be converted at a time

- Stable conversion process of converting PowerPoint to video

What’s New- New User Interface

PPT2Video Converter2.0 brings you a new look. Cool black is fashion and attractive. Also, the user interface guarantees a more friendly using experience.

- Convert PowerPoint to FLV

Support converting your PowerPoint to FLV (Flash Video) with high quality. Distribute your PowerPoint presentations easier with smaller file size.

- Retain Sounds with an Innovative Sound Recorder

The new version integrates a sound recorder for retaining all kinds of sounds in your presentation. Besides, it ensures each piece of sound being synchronized to images or video contained in your presentations.

System Requirements- PowerPoint: Microsoft PowerPoint Version 2000/2002/2003/2007 - Operating System: Windows(32) 2000/XP(Service Pack 2)/2003/Vista - RAM Requirement: 256MB RAM or above - Available Disk Space: 2 GB Free Space or above - Other Requirements: Windows-compatible display with at least 800 x 600 resolution;
Windows-compatible sound card (recommended); DirectX 9.0 or above Pricing and Availability

Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter is priced at $49.95 for Single-User Personal License. Single-User Commercial License and Multi-User License are also available. More pricing policy you can go to:

http://ppt-to-video.com/purchase/powerpoint-to-video-buy.html. You can also click here to get a fully-functional free trial version.

Tips for making PowerPoint courseware and how to distribute it

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:24:30 +0000

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.

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