Power Point for E-Learning: a faster way to deliver it
PowerPoint is a good tool for e-learning. In an earlier post in this Blog we provide links to a tutorial for learning how to make interactive PowerPoint presentations. While those presentations are nice PowerPoint has the drawback of producing large files difficult to deliver online but there are solutions.
1. You can transform your PowerPoint presentations to Flash. In this way you can deliver it as more efficiently. You can even divide large presentations into several smaller Flash movies that are linked. In this way each one doesn’t take so much time to download. Computers will need the Flash player.
2 You can use Impatica which compresses PowerPoint presentations by 90%. Impatica allows for presentations to have images, video, and audio. You can see samples of the presentations delivered via Impatica a their web site. Computers will need to be Java enabled to play Impatica files.
posted by Gray Harriman @ 9:32 PM
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I admit that PowerPoint produces large files but I have found that I can use it in many different ways to attract learning as I see it as a very strong learning tool. I have found that Netmeeting and Microsoft Netware allow you to produce PowerPoint’s where they can be presented on line and then attached so that the others on the other side (maybe globally) that are watching the presentation can then print a copy from their side if need be. On Netware you can also record the conversation that was had during the training that all parties can easily access when needed.
I have also found that a product named Viewlets can incorporate PowerPoint presentations and training all in one. You record what you want to train using Viewlets and then it compresses into a little movie, which can then be placed online for easy access and viewing.
You can try an authoring tool that can import Powerpoint files directly like Elicitus Content Publisher. The advantage of using th etool is that you can then publish it in SCORM or AICC compliant versions (www.elicitus.com)
I create PowerPoint presentations pretty often and should say this is a very good way to share information with your friends and colleagues, there is one more point though. If you don't have PowerPoint to flash converter it can be a bit hard. I've been using iSpring Pro for a long time now and happy with it.
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