Back to School Fun: Make Back-to-school DVD Movie with PowerPoint

Half fun, half fear. That is always what your kids feel in the first week of school. Fun in meeting new friends, and fear of the summer gone-by yet of what's to come. As teachers and parents, you can plan a colorful series of back to school crafts and activities to shatter the fear and encourage your kids. You may throw a funny film shot at night of the first school day, but I assume it would be more interesting and inspiring to guide kids to DIY their own back-to-school DVD movies with PowerPoint. Since kids are curious to new things, a challenging movie creation may dig their inspiration of crafts, brush up their computer skills, drive out initial back-to-school fear, and rebuild confidence in them. So this new school year, teach your children to make an icebreaker back-to-school DVD movie with PowerPoint and make a shiny start.

What You Will Need:

• High-def Digital Photos


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• MS PowerPoint on Your PC


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• Mood Music or Video Clips


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• Quality Blank DVD Disk(s)


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• Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu


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• DVD Player or Projector
  

What to Do:

Generally, this back-to-school DVD movie requires 2 processes - One is to mould in PowerPoint, One is to burn to DVD disc.

A. Mould back-to-school PowerPoint slideshow
I recommend MS PowerPoint because it is easy to use for young kids. You don't need to be a genius to use and teach PowerPoint. Now the first step you are to take is to compose the shape of the back-to-school movie with PowerPoint. Have no idea of the "shape"? It indicates what kind of story you want to develop in the back-to-school movie. It can either be an immediate record of awesome activities on the first school day, or an exotic collection of each kid's photo memories of the past summer vacation.
As to the movie story itself, you should associate it with your existing sources: the most basic factor digital photos, the effect accelerator mood music (also background music), or fitting video clips to give more of a touch. Be sure you have enough high-def photos in hand to support a back-to-school movie show (usu. 7-10 photos per minute).

When all the materials for the digital project are ready, it's time to assemble them into PowerPoint. You can use Photo Album in PowerPoint 2003/2007 to add in and edit the photos in order, insert the ready video clip to an expected slide, title the scenes of your movie story, and give a music mood that hits the point.
After edition, it comes to the second process:

B. Burn back-to-school PowerPoint presentation to DVD disc

A slideshow is not enough. Your back-to-school PowerPoint presentation can be playback on a DVD player or projector like a real TV show. All you need is to burn it to accessible DVD with such a cheap but effective app as Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu, an e-Learning program that can burn PowerPoint to SCORM compliant DVD and video at on go. Here is a simple guide of burning PowerPoint to DVD disc.

a. Pop in a blank DVD disc to your PC if supportable. Otherwise, you will finally get DVD image files of the back-to-school movie that requires another burning app to burn to disc.
b. Install and launch Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu. Then import the back-to-school PowerPoint file.
c. Select the output to DVD (either Standard or High Definition). Personalize your back-to-school DVD movie with your individual logo. Also select a proper DVD theme from the Menu tab.
d. Click Start to burn the back-to-school PowerPoint to DVD (disc).

For illustrative details of burning a PowerPoint presentation to DVD, see in How to Burn PowerPoint to DVD

OK. Your back-to-school DVD movie is ready on a disc. Connect it to a DVD player hooked to a large-screen TV, or to your school computer with a projector. Turn the icebreaker movie on, sit back with your kids, and enjoy the fun school day project!

You may also need these how-tos:

How to Set Background Music in PowerPoint?
How to Insert a Video into a PowerPoint File?

Say Hello to New Classmates with A Self-introduction Video Slideshow

Simple self-introduction video slideshow - A stylish way to show the truest of yourself to your new pals at this back to school season

The new school year comes with the end of this wild summer 2009. Now you are heading back to school, entering into a higher grade, and will meet new faces in class, often say "Hello" to each other in the first class, by a string of self-introductions. It's perfect that you are born an eloquent presenter. But if you happen to be a slow speaker liable to a tongue-tie before public, you need to take efforts preparing your self-introduction in advance. A pretty cool option for you shy students, particularly to you computer geeks, is to employ a compelling video slideshow to outstand yourselves in front of the new class.

What can a smart video slideshow bring?

A well-structured video slideshow can not only wow your audience, but also bring you sheer joy of creation. When you say Hello to your new classmates by a live video show with a laptop, or an iPhone projected to a white wall, they would have a deeper impression of you. If you publish the video slideshow to YouTube or Facebook, later the new pals coming to it would remind you of your special performance on the first day of the new semester.

As to self-improvement, you can get a closer look of yourself from your DIY profile, as well as exercise computer skills at making video slideshow. Because you can't convince the audience unless you know yourself and express yourself properly.

How to make a video slideshow of self-introduction?

It's less than a cinch to create your self-introduction video. Here I would love to suggest two methods, one for PowerPoint users, and one for students without PowerPoint on their PCs.

1. Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu If you are using MS PowerPoint, you can compose your self-introduction slideshow there. Then use Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu, an all-inclusive PowerPoint-to-video conversion program, to convert the existing PPT presentation to video, as video makes more sense beyond a desktop, extending your profile to the live Web, a Blackberry, an iPod, an iPhone, and more. As to the content, you can include your name, age, address, likes, dislikes, hobbies, strength, etc., illustrated by animations, graphics, flash, movie clips, and backed up with a lengthy piece of light music or your very voice narration. If necessary, get some beautiful back-to-school PowerPoint backgrounds at Free Back to School PowerPoint Backgrounds

For free PowerPoint templates, click here

Done your self-introduction in PowerPoint, now you can assign the conversion task to Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu. All in 3 simple steps:
a) Install the e-Learning app, launch it, and import the presentation of your self-introduction.
b) Select an output video format, most popular as AVI, MP4 and WMV. Customize the video profile options as you specialize.
c) Click "Start" to convert to video.

Once the video slideshow comes out, hook it to from your local drive to an iPod or Blackberry, upload it to a video hosting site like YouTube, publish at popular Facebook, embed to your personal blog, and invite your new pals to visit. Alternatively, save it to a CD or USB flash drive, and take to school for a live delivery to those fresh faces.

2. Windows Movie Maker
Not a PowerPoint user? You can still make a self-introduction video since there is a helpful friend - free Windows Movie Maker. Import and assemble the sources (usu. video clips of your typical moments, pictures of your favorite sports, stars, food…) of your self-introduction into Windows Movie Maker. Edit all the elements into a story video with a beginning, middle and end. Use titles, transitions, sounds to make the "TV-style" video enjoyable.

When your self-introduction video slideshow is ready, you can do as described in the first method to share with your new classmates. Enjoy video inspiration, enjoy new school year!

Web 2.0 with Your Class: 7 Amazing Back-to-school Presentation Tools

For a classroom lesson, especially a class that will matter, today's school staff would prefer a dynamic slideshow (remaining original in PowerPoint or reformed in SCORM-compliant video, DVD, Flash) to a chalk-and-blackboard interpretation. There is no doubt that current education is jumping on the train of Web 2.0, typically represented by the integration of digital technology into classroom and the emergence of social networking sites like Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This post covers 7 amazing picks of presentation software or solutions for eager teachers and students who want more broadcasting of a back-to-school masterpiece.

Your First-choice Back-to-school Presentation Tools & Applications

1. MS PowerPoint: The most prevalent presentation-authoring tool developed by Microsoft, great for educators and students to vivify a plain lecture text with lively animations, graphics, music, or even movie clips.

2. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu: An e-Learning program to burn PowerPoint courseware to DVD and convert it to video for cross-platform access on a TV with DVD player and a different computer. From home to school, from desktop to the Web, the presentation tool enables teachers and students to manage their course content on a protective DVD disc and in web-ready video, without bothering to any PowerPoint corruption on a destination device.
Hot Features: Batch process of 12 PowerPoint files. Relieve users from distribution defect of a big PowerPoint file. Retain everything original from PowerPoint to the output DVD. No loss of animations, wipes, sounds or video clips. Watermark to personalize a DVD/video slideshow.

3. Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu: Green video course creator that makes SCORM compliant video from an e-Learning PowerPoint presentation. Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu let users expand a course presentation beyond a desktop, but to a video-compliant portable like iPod and iPhone, to a video-hosting site like YouTube and TeacherTube. Great for remote online learning.
Hot Features: Batch conversion of 12 PPT files. Keep complete of a PowerPoint presentation including animations, transitions, music and movie clips to a quality video. Create 12+ video formats from PowerPoint, e.g. ASF, AVI, MOV, FLV, MP4, VOB…

4. Zoho Show: An ONLINE presentation tool that allows you to create a new presentation from scratch using its pre-built themes, as well as to import an existing presentation from both MS PowerPoint (PPT, PPS)and OpenOffice (ODP, SXI). Users can edit, publish, and show their presentations online and export as PPT, PPS, HTML, ODP and PDF.
Hot Features: Free for individual users. Create a presentation full of text, images, shapes, lists, and pre-built content templates
Drawbacks: Limit to PowerPoint file size - no more than 10 MB. Miss on original effects from an existing presentation.

5. SlideShare: The largest website of slideshows, similar to YouTube in the video field. Support presentations of all types: MS PowerPoint, OpenOffice and Apple Keynote. Good for students and educators who want to archive presentations online for sharing and receiving feedbacks.
Hot Features: Free. Bulk upload of presentations. 100MB capacity. Invite friends and colleagues to visit your slideshow via email.
Drawbacks: Miss on all dynamic elements in PowerPoint, like sounds and effects.

6. Empressr: An Ajax and Flash-based service to make and share presentations online. Allows you to save each slide as single image and to make an imported presentation editable.
Hot Feature: Uses Flash and Ajax rather than HTML and Ajax to add more media than other tools including audio and video.
Drawback: Complete loss of original effects in a input presentation.

7. ThinkFree Show: A Java-based presentation application similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. ThinkFree Show offers an ease to create rich presentations and play them through the online editor or by graphic. You can also save your presentations for viewing in Microsoft PowerPoint and share them with others online.
Hot Feature: Can convert PPT to PDF, text and image.
Drawback: Cannot convert properly of a PPT file more than 5MB.

Cheap and fast-to-create, these e-Learning presentation tools have been encouraging staff and faculty nowadays to take more advantage of Web 2.0 technology. Just boost your new school year with a proper tech tool of the above!

Birthday Song or Birthday Music for Your Birthday DVD/Video Slideshow

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.

Birthday Songs or Music for Your Birthday DVD/Video Slideshow

Explore a nice song for your DVD/video Birthday slideshow!

Birthday Song Name	Singer
Because You Loved Me	Celine Dion
Celebrate Good Times	Cool and The Gang
Let Them Be Little	Billy Dean
Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
This One's For the Girls	Martina McBride
A Bushel and A Peck	Prince Faith
Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Aretha Franklin
Beautiful Boy	Celine Dion
Brown-Eyed Girl	Van Morrison
Celebrate Good Times	Cool and The Gang
Dream a Little Dream of Me	Louis Armstrong
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun	Cyndi Lauper
Happy Birthday, Darlin'	Conway Twitty
Happy Birthday To You	Frank Sinatra
Keeper of the Stars	Tracy Byrd
Happy Girl	Martina McBride
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby	Ronnie Milsap
If I Could	Celine Dion
Isn't She Lovely	Stevie Wonder
It's Your Song	Garth Brooks
Miss Independent	Kelly Clarkson
My Girl	The Temptations
Oh, Pretty Woman	Roy Orbison
Photograph	Nickelback
She (Notting Hill Soundtrack)	Elvis Costello
She's a Lady	Tom Jones
She's Got a Way	Billy Joel
She's Not Just a Pretty Face	Shania Twain
Thanks for the Memories	Frank Sinatra
The Best is Yet to Come	Frank Sinatra
The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA	Donna Fargo
These Are The Days	Natalie Merchant
This is the Time	Billy Joel
Three Times a Lady	The Commodores
Too Marvelous for Words	Frank Sinatra
Unforgettable	Nat King Cole
We Are Family	Sister Sledge
What a Beautiful Day	Chris Cagle
Wild One	Faith Hill
You are So Beautiful	Engelbert Humperdinck
You Are So Beautiful	Joe Cocker
You're Nobody (till somebody loves you)	Dean Martin

How to Overcome Fear of Delivering Your Class PowerPoint Presentation

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)".

How to overcome fear on live delivery of a class presentation (in PowerPoint, DVD or Video)

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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Moyea Software Adds New Flexible Video Features in PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.2

Summary: 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