Tags: Video eLearning PowerPoint YouTub I’ve often been asked how I embedded a video from YouTube in my presentations, so I thought I’d put a simple guide together, based on one I found a while back but can’t find now!! Typical, Typical, huh? So, So, let’s begin … Find

One of my clients is considering using PowerPoint as a development tool. Although they will probably convert the PowerPoint to Flash and distribute in this way, they also want to make the PowerPoint files available for users who wish to make modifications to the materials. In investigating the various issues associated with PowerPoint, they uncovered this list of accessibility issues and some suggested solutions; they are happy that I share these with you: Accessibility challenge Disability Solution(s) Each container in a

I was interested in Cammy Bean's News Flash:PowerPoint bad for learning . I came across similar findings a few years ago when I was researching a course called Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint which I designed with my colleague David Kori : Severin's cue summation theory (1967), claims that learning is more effective as the number of available cues or stimuli are increased. In a survey by Communicate Using Technology (link no longer valid), the number one most annoying thing about bad PowerPoint She cites research by the University of New South Wales which concludes that "it is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time."

Thanks Jez for reminding me and pointing to some of your favourite examples at InfoQ . PowerPoint + video > synchronised delivery . Tags: PowerPoin No sooner had I posted about the three solutions I had been considering for making slide shows available online as stand-alone content, than a rush of new options comes to light - isn't that the joy of online communities? Prezi > video . Strictly, of course, a Prezi document is not a slide show at all, but the purpose is the same - as speaker support.

It also means choosing the most appropriate delivery format: PowerPoint > SlideShare . This did work fine, but for some, more complex presentations with busier slides this might prove more difficult. PowerPoint > Camtasia > Video > YouTube/mobile device . On the other hand, your slides will be heavily compressed and displayed in a small window, so complex or text-heavy slides won't work; you also lose that handy self-pacing which comes with the SlideShare Last week I put together a SlideShare version of my presentation on the e-learning skills gap and it got me thinking about how slide shows have evolved over the last few years as a new form of stand-alone content.

We’ve all seen the presentation “Death by PowerPoint” .. if you haven’t, shame on you and go and see it now – “Death by PowerPoint / SlideShare“. This This isn’t to say that using PowerPoint is wrong, or should be stopped. eDelivery eLearning It highlights the techniques that are used over and over again to bore the audience, and should [...] Technology Technology Academia 2.0

Timo Elliott has created a set of free twitter tools that allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar PowerPoint Twitter feedback slide PowerPoint Twitter voting tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.

I use Powerpoint in some of the workshops I run, not all, but when it suits the audience, venue and most importantly learning objectives. That said, Powerpoint can have its place. So I've put together a list of 10(+1) tips for using Powerpoint more effectively. Plan your workshop .  Ask I have, on the other hand, been a participant where slides have been the 'star'!

I was interested to read in Donald Clark's review of Learning 2005 that Elliott had decreed that there should be no PowerPoint at the show. However, I wonder whether PowerPoint is really the guilty party here. Now might be a good place to introduce today's story, extracted from Above and Beyond's award-winning Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint (I know, I wrote it - but what's wrong with just a little bit of self-promotion every I can certainly sympathise with Elliott's intentions here - after all, we have all had to sit through far too many mind-numbing slides full

With the debate about the vices and virtues of PowerPoint continuing to rage without any sign of a conclusion, I was pleased to be alerted to a new book by Stephen Kosslyn, Chair of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. The promise of Clear and to the point (Oxford Univeristy Press, 2007) is in its claim to '8 psychological principles for compelling PowerPoint presentations. I'm a sucker for any publication that purports to provide some sort of objective, scientific message, in the hope that this might put some issues to bed and provide a sound base for practical application.