View the New Outlook 2007 demo

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Using Excel with Other Office Applications

Using Excel with Other Office Applications

This explanation offers a great primer on what happens when you put an Excel workbook into a PowerPoint presentation.

Journal Gazette | 10/11/2006 | Microsoft releases patches for Word, PowerPoint

Journal Gazette | 10/11/2006 | Microsoft releases patches for Word, PowerPoint: "Microsoft releases patches for Word, PowerPoint"

If you don't have automatic updates on your computer, I would go to the Microsoft site here and download the patches!

Example of a good PowerPoint presentation

This is a great example of a good presentation created in PowerPoint and then made into video for a master'e thesis. (Very interesting content as well.)

TILT Episode 7 - Multimedia Animation Using PowerPoint

In this episode, we look at 3 techniques students (and teachers) can use to create animations in PowerPoint: 1) Custom animation built into PowerPoint (2:27) 2) Keyframe animation with 'Duplicate Slides' and/or with sprites (7:25) 3) 'Flash-once' animation (10:41) I've used all 3 types of animation with kids for different purposes, but by and large the most effective activities I've done are ones that involve students explaining concepts or ideas with animations.

Articulate: PowerPoint to Flash - Easy!

The folks at Articulate invited me the other day to download their program and try it out. I had been using Macromedia Breeze to create PowerPoint - to - Flash tutorials and presentations, but when I finally quit my job at Honeywell I had to say a sorry goodbye to Breeze.

The download and install are simple, and like Breeze, Articulate shows up as a menu item in PowerPoint.

There are only 3 simple steps to create an Articulated presentation:

1. Create the PowerPoint presentation (add slide content and the narrative in the notes section of each slide, then animations)

2. Record the narration for each slide.

3. Publish the presentation to Flash format for web use like the example shown here where I created a tutorial for Brainy Betty users.

The nice thing about using Articulate is that the supporting materials - a pdf. manual and online tutorials make it very simple to become adept at - but the really cool thing about using the Presenter PRO program is that it allows you to create neat quizzes and surveys within your Articulate presentation that bring a great aspect of interactivity to your presentation as well. It keeps people engaged in what you are saying or telling or teaching and allows them to work back and forth with the content.

You can create Articulate for the web of course with the flash component, but you can also publish to LMS (learning management systems), CDs, and other deployment methods.

Do go check it out and try it. It's a fabulous value for the price and you'll be creating rich content and fantastic, engaging presentations in no time!

Take a look at the new charts in PPT 2007!

Take a look at Brendan Busch's Blog and see the difference between the old PowerPoint charts and the new ones you can create with the new version. It's pretty amazing.

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