mike scott wrote:
On 13 May 2008 at 8:28, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 07:04:46 -0400
bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
As a sideline I teach at the college level. I have agreed to do an
on-line course this term and in order to prepare the on-line lectures I
need to feed a narrated powerpoint lecture into a processor that
converts it to interactive HTML.
I have use Impress for all my presentations to date, but can't find a
way to make a narrated presentation.
Am I missing something, or do I have to use micro$soft's powerpoint ?
I am unclear what you mean by "narrated presentation." Also, what
platform will this be running on, e.g., Blackboard, WebCT or a direct
website?
I use Impress for presentations in class all the time, but so far I
have never had to create a presentation online. Some day I will
probably have to do so, so I am interested in exactly what you need to
do and how you resolve the issue.
I wonder if the OP is looking for something like 'rehearse timings',
which is well described in help, and can be started from the 'slide
show' menu.
That, plus starting a sound track in the transition for the first
slide (as was discussed here some months ago) allows a pre-recorded
soundtrack, with the slides changed with pre-programmed timing.
Don't know about the conversioin to interactive html though.
The Narration function of PowerPoint allows the user to create a slide
show and then go back and add voice narration - as if one were giving a
lecture to a live audience. The user changes slides as he/she wishes
while talking. The .ppt file then contains the slides and the digitized
voice. One then feeds that into Impacta
http://www.impatica.com/imp4ppt/ (beware, this starts an impacta
presentation about impacta. You can stop/silence it by clicking on the
stop button ||) which compresses the file and adds JAVA links so that
the file can be interacted with by the eventual student user.
I will be using it with Blackboard.
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Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com
