A Birthday slideshow video or DVD is not a silent bliss. It sounds, vibrates with polished music. In my previous post, I have discussed how to make a Birthday slideshow DVD/video; now I would love to add a set of Birthday songs and music to give a dynamic touch.
Explore a nice song for your DVD/video Birthday slideshow!
Although you have done a perfect job on your class presentation itself, even finalizing it in safe video or DVD after built with the functional and formal PowerPoint, you may be too nervous to control the flow of your project when speaking in front of your class and peers. You are suffering the so-called "Glossophobia", i.e. the fear of public speaking. And you don't have to feel embarrassed on that - it occurs to 3 out of 4 presenters.
To relieve your stress on real-time performance, here I would love to introduce 8 tips on the delivery issue, also as an supplement of the class presentation creation and distribution tips that revealed in the posts "Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation (I) & (II)".
1. Dress formally. A neat, clean and professional dress does add confidence in you when you stand in front of your audience. When you wear appropriately, you are more likely to being calm and confident. The more confidence you have, the less fear you suffer. And when you look good, your coming presentation probably captures the listening ears.
2. Voice clearly. Speak clearly and loudly and have inflection in your voice. Be sure that every attendant can hear you, and that every detail of your message can reach him or her, especially in a big lecture hall. Avoid mumbling - remember you are going to engage your class, not to lull them to sleep.
3. Make eye contact. Never forget to make eye contact with your class and peers. Stop staring at your computer or the floor. Otherwise, you will bore your audience. Relax and think they are your friends, just imagine it is a light chat in an afternoon-tea party, and always invite their attention to your topic.
4. Be your real self. Personality is a key to makes one outstand. Keep in mind one thing: this is your presentation, not your peer John's or Mary's. So show your true taste to the audience with your class presentation. If you are a person of humor, then be humorous this time; if you are someone of skepticism, just keep your skeptical manner.
5. Smile is always an aid. Smile can help melt a serious mood at the beginning of your class presentation. Smile means you feel wonderful to tell them something you find good. Nothing works better than a warm smile when you make a tongue slip, or forget a word of your presentation. Your class will forgive a minor mistake in exchange of your sincere smile.
6. Act as a professional. Now you dress in a professional manner like your teacher, behave like a real expert. It means that you should discuss questions raised by any of your classmates, give supporting evidence to your opinion, try to attract negative audiences and encourage interaction with them. You can also ask them questions or leave a few minutes for Q&A session at the end of the class presentation.
7. Stay within the assigned time. The prerequisite is practice your class presentation in advance. Limit each key point within an assigned time. Know which are the major points and which are the minor and make immediate modification according to that. Your peers won't stick to your ideas when class is over.
8. Good start, good end. Your conclusion is your final impression while the introduction is the first one. If you don't want to fall short of success, enhance the ending of your class presentation. You can close it by citing something innovative or summarizing the major points covered in the body of the presentation (post-organizing) and providing a sense of closure.
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PPT to videoSummary: The upgraded Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.2 quickens the conversion of PowerPoint to DVD and video with integrated video "Profile" of fresh rearrangement.
Shenzhen, P.R. China - July 23, 2009 - Moyea Software, a developer and distributor of multimedia authoring and editing software, has upgraded its PowerPoint-TV& Web joiner, the PPT to DVD Burner Lite, to Version 1.2 which adds in the Profile a new list of creative tabs such as "Recent", "Common Video", "Common Audio", "User Defined" and "All Profiles" that designed for a quick access, as well as a novel set of video output formats including ASF, TS and DAT meeting to more video supportable devices.
As a standalone program able to burn PowerPoint to DVD and convert PowerPoint to video at on go, Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite enables a computer-bound presentation with a professional TV feel at a DVD player and empowers a live Web show of the presentation in various videos like ASF, AVI, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, MP4, VOB, WMV, MOV, etc. The PowerPoint to DVD and Video blend brings users an ease of distributing a presentation to family,friends, clients and colleagues afar in elegant DVD and sharing it on YouTube, MySpace and many portables like iPhone, iPod, PSP and Zune in slick video.
Highlights in Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.2
I. NEW upgrades in the Profile part of Video Output
a. The PowerPoint to DVD and video converter presents a pleasant Profile by a neat list of video output tabs, "Recent" with last output record(s), "Common Video" with many video formats, "Common Audio" with general audio formats, "User Defined" for your DIY amusement, and "All Profiles" with a complete look of output options by both format and terminal device.
b. New video and audio formats are available, e.g. ASF (Advanced Streaming Format), OGG and AIFF, making it more comfortable to convert a presentation to an appropriate video or audio.
c. It adds in new video outputs by terminal device like Windows Mobile, PMP, offering an ease for users to detect a right file format for end-device.
d. Illustration and text introduction accompanies every single output option to help users grab a proper format at a glance.
e. Optimal video and audio codec in the new 1.2 contributes to a quality video with less time.
II. Standing Features in Moyea PPT to DVD Lite 1.2
a. Easy playback scheme "One Slide One Chapter" in the PPT to DVD program helps avoid excess repeat of slides playing on a DVD player.
b. Built-in burning engine of the burner is capable of synchronizing all the PowerPoint originals including sounds and movie clips to DVD/video.
c. Theme DVD menu templates suitable to diverse occasions add a touch to final DVD slideshow on a TV.
d. Myriads of sound insertion are possible to any selected PowerPoint file for conversion with the burner.
e. It supports batch conversion of PowerPoint-to-DVD/video
Apart from the remarkable features above, Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.2 also squashes some minor bugs that occur in the previous version,securing users an enjoyable experience of DVD or video slideshow creation.
Pricing and Availability
Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.2 requires Windows XP/2000/NT/Vista. The unit price of the product is $79.95 (US) on a per-computer license. Registered customers of the product are entitled to free unlimited updates as well as the first priority to relevant technical support. Bulk purchase of 5 licenses or more will enjoy corresponding volume discounts.
For more info on Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite, please refer to the product page http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/
Links
Product page: http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/
Direct download link: http://www.moyeamedia.com/download/ppt2dvdlite/ppt2dvd_lite_setup.exe
E-mail: support@dvd-ppt-slideshow.com
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Download Free Total Solar Eclipse PowerPoint TemplatePPT to DVD Burn Total Solar Eclipse Slideshow to DVD for Watching on TVPPT to video Convert Total Solar Eclipse Slideshow to Video for Sharing on the WebWhat you should master to make a knocking e-learning PowerPoint presentation for easy distribution and flexible reuse
Affordable and accessible, e-Learning is seizing a large portion of learning activities both in schools and in corporations. And the rapid growth of Internet and multimedia technologies including PowerPoint, flash, video and DVD, contributes a great to e-Learning in making it available to a multitude of learners with ease and flexibility. Among the most popular e-Learning technologies, PowerPoint-based tools are taking great popularity in formal academic and industry education. Here we sum up 5 tips (herein as 5 Es as each begins with Letter E) that should be kept in mind when making an e-Learning PowerPoint presentation. The 5 necessaries for an E-Learning presentation are listed below:
"Engaging" is to the content. Your e-Learning PowerPoint presentation must include engaging content capable of capturing the learners at the very first time. Avoid dulling your presentation by the so-called Death by PowerPoint, i.e. you should organize the whole story in a reasonable way - clear and brief rather than random and tedious. If it is a course presentation on Science, for example, you can use key phrases or words or graphics instead of complete long sentences to describe the topic, limit the number of slides to the most concise extent, put each title on the top of every slide for quick navigation, contrast different texts by a shift of colors, and apply animations and transitions sparingly to title messages (not to the text part) of the presentation.
A presentation with several dynamic effects can catch their eyes better than a plain one consisting only static pictures and texts, but too many effects will degrade it to a distraction. So think carefully before adding in a thrilling sound or movie clip to your e-Learning presentation.
"Evocative" means that the messages in your e-Learning presentation can evoke a positive response when conveyed to the learners. What you convey is what they are right in need. To make that, you must take a survey to ensure the topic you are going to talk by the presentation makes sense, and must plan how to present it in a way that appeals to the learners.
Suggestions: rehearse the presentation until perfect before you deliver it. You can practice it in a rehearsal room as if the learners were there, or ask someone as audience to give you his/her advice.
"Efficient" here is to the delivery of your e-Learning presentation. You made a wonderful learning item, but it failed to reach the target learners because they couldn't open the PowerPoint presentation. That is a lack of efficiency. As we know, files generated by PowerPoint are often too clumsy and fragile to carry via the Internet. To make it an easy access to the learners, you can upload the e-Learning presentation to the Web (an authorized website or your blog) for sharing online, or burn it to DVD as endurable disc handouts using software like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.
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"Enjoyable" indicates the e-Learning experience by your presentation. E-Learning itself is a convenient and flexible learning method, self-paced and available almost 24x7, without boundary of time and space. E-learning stuff on a PowerPoint presentation, however, is not a nice layout for learning community on the Web. If you want an interactive impact of your e-Learning presentation, then why not convert it to one of the most popular media formats throughout the Internet - flash video? That is a good way to show a complete look of your presentation online, since a direct link of PowerPoint to the Web may fail to retain all the dynamic effects like embedded sounds, movie clips as well as animations and transitions. Tools that can help transfer your e-Learning presentation to flash video include Moyea PPT4Web Converter, capable of creating a PowerPoint-based FLV file supportable by Adobe Flash Player and many other flash players.
Then, it becomes a cinch for you to put and share the hitless e-Learning PPT video at a learning community, or your teaching blog. Your students and other target learners can enjoy it more by a free exchange of ideas as comments on the slick PowerPoint video.
"Easy" refers to two: the messages of your e-Learning presentation are easy to understand, while the content is easy to get. To put it straight, you should on the one hand compose the learning stuff, especially those with deep thoughts, in a simple manner that doesn't confuse a learner. On the other hand, make accessible copies of the presentation, via a CD-ROM, DVD, video or PDF, for later reuse by yourself and for the benefit of those involved who request a review of it.
For your convenience of reference:
To burn your e-Learning presentation to CD or DVD, see in the post How to Burn PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) to CD or DVD
To save your presentation to PDF, go to Export Office Applications to PDF
E-Learning, a green method of learning, does brings us great convenience and opportunity these years. Bear in your mind the 5 Es - Engaging, Evocative, Efficient, Enjoyable and Easy as mentioned above to make an successful e-Learning course based on presentation.
Still wondering how to draw those idle-minded students back from a carefree summer holiday? Integrating your class with multimedia technology should be a wise practice. To engage new and returning students in this new school year, use MS PowerPoint to plan your class presentation and finalize it in DVD, Video or PDF to enhance e-learning content distribution.
You can utilize Microsoft PowerPoint for a rapid creation of lecture presentation that is dynamic with animations, art clips, pictures, tables, sounds, video clips and more. If you are at a loss when coming to how to make a good class presentation, get an idea here in "Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation", or find out more tips at MS Office At School Resources. As to class PowerPoint template, collect some classic packs from this Free Education PowerPoint Templates. Whether it is a literary story or a new science lesson, the smart authoring tool can help make an engaging learning experience for students in the classroom. Unfortunately, a lecture presentation in PowerPoint is not friendly to remote distribution or after-class communication. To share your course ideas better with eager students, you have to shape it to a more accessible media format such as DVD, video and PDF that are more flexible for cross platform use.
Enhance it by performing one of the following:
Many teachers and lecturers have such a suffering experience: A sudden strike of their course presentation occurs when delivering on a different computer. That is because PowerPoint is fragile in transferring from a machine to another. Therefore, if you are to carry a Windows-based course presentation to a Mac, or to deliver it on a DVD player attached to TV for a small group, burn the course stuff to a DVD disc using reliable burning software like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.
Benefits of burning the course presentation to DVD:
Save the PowerPoint course content to PDF
Apart from the above video or DVD extension of your course presentation, this Save to PDF mean a static preserve of your course presentation. Though animations and other dynamic effects in the original get lost once saved to PDF, the compact format brings a real ease in delivering your course content via email to share with your students.
If you are a PowerPoint 2007 user, you can save the course presentation straight to PDF. Microsoft provides a free Save as PDF or XPS add-in on its official website. After you download and install that Publish As PDF add-in, you can save your course stuff to PDF as email attachment. What if you use an earlier version like Office 2003? Then take Moyea PPT to PDF Converter (applies to MS Office 2000 and above) to generate a PDF copy of your course.
Integrated with modern multimedia technology, the PowerPoint-based e-Learning software tools reinforce the accessibility and reusability of your course content anywhere and at any place.
Romeo and Juliet never die in their love story as it roots in most progeny of men. No one can deny the incredible magic of a tender love story.
Pop country music singer Taylor Swift did make a hit last summer with a gorgeous love story musical video. The 4-minute love story video has won 3,108,932 + 11,928,641 views within 10 months on YouTube, excluding other sharing space like MySpace, MTV, and personal podcasts. Love witnesses the power of Internet. So my friend, do you itch for such a staggering love story video? A vain hope? No. Believe me, it is possible and never a brain-rack if not expected to be that complex as those big movies like Casablanca or Twilight, but rather a simple video consisting of photos, captions, movie montages, voice narration, together with a string of animated effects. No necessary to be an expert in video editing, you can easily create your own love story video and share with the whole world online and on the go if you take these two helping hands: MS PowerPoint and Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Use the former to compose your love story, and the latter to finalize it in seamless video.
Here comes an introductory guide of making a love story video with PowerPoint pictures.
Get-started
Items to prepare in advance:
Ready? Let's take a grasp of these steps:
Step 1: Input the selected photos, sound tracks and movie clips (if there is any) and edit them in PowerPoint
In PowerPoint 2007, open a blank presentation, and go to Insert -> Photo Albums -> New Photo Album. The Photo Album interface appears. Click the File/Disk button to add in your love story photo folder.
You can set the color tone to black and white. Organize the love story photos by clicking Edit Photo Album under the Photo Album tab. Add captions to each photo slide. Next, insert a specified song to playback it across your love presentation. Also, add in a romantic movie clip to make a dynamic effect. Give a thought to animations and wipes to move the love story show.
Step 2: Import the ready love story presentation to Moyea PPT to Video Converter Once installed Moyea PPT to Video Converter, import the love story presentation in the program. Select a video output like MP4, AVI, WMV, etc. Customize various parameters for your love story video as you like. OK. Click Start to generate a love story video.
Voila. Now you can upload the love story video to YouTube, MySpace, your blog or podcast. Moreover, connect it to your iPod or Blackberry to watch the wonderful show on the go.
When you create a template, add any content to the slide master in Slide Master view that you want to protect from being changed by users of your template, such as instructional prompt text, logos, header and footer information, subject matter content, a background, formatting, colors, fonts, and effects.
, and then click Save As.
