Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 15, 2011

Users can easily import existing PowerPoint® presentations directly into Elicitus with great accuracy. Videos can now be added to topic pages and customize the size of the video. Various types of video such as AVI, MPG and SWF are supported. What is more, Raptivity interactions are easily inserted in the courses and tracked.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JUNE 28, 2010

The teacher creates a PowerPoint presentation which contains questions, surveys and drawing activities. Two, it integrates nicely with PowerPoint. Finally, a software with a cool name. The last cool name I heard was YawnBuster. But you know, I'm biased. The idea of the Microsoft product is real simple. Up to five hundred (!)

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 30, 2011

Must avoid the need for purpose-built special hardware even when the audience is physically in same room (refer to my earlier post on Microsoft Mouse Mischief) Should provide the option of using generic reliable hardware such as computers, tablets or even smart phones as participation devices Should work with popular presentation software such as PowerPoint (..)

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We have lots of course material in PowerPoint and would like to use it for e-learning, without necessarily converting it all to Flash. Here is a short list for you to review, and perhaps you can identify with one or more. I have just rolled out in-house e-learning development, and my content authors must get up to speed fast.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 22, 2009

Research by eLearning Guild shows PowerPoint to be the tool most commonly used by trainers. It became clear then, that the best way to provide this technology was as Flash templates for PowerPoint. Trainers could choose from icebreakers, activators, group exercises, energizer games and closers. This should surpise nobody, we all do it.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2014

Since PowerPoint is one of the most commonly used presentation tools, I will limit my comments to a typical PowerPoint presentation here. To make this process simple, Raptivity, the leading interactivity builder, recently released a PowerPoint add-in. This free tool installs a menu for interactions inside PowerPoint.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

Consider PowerPoint presentations – many of them are simply quite boring. VJ: That’s a great question. Contrary to common intuition, the initial use of technology in any form of dialog can actually hinder, rather than enhance, interactivity. Or consider a variety of e-learning courses that are online page flippers at-best.

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