PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

YawnBuster: The Indezine Review

A number of applications plug-in to PowerPoint and provide the ability to insert Flash based rich media objects on your slides. These objects could be interactions, training games, quizzes, and surveys. YawnBuster, the product being reviewed here, adds group activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises, and competitions—and embeds these group activities as part of your PowerPoint file.

YawnBuster includes ready-to-use Flash templates, and the group activities can be easily customized without any technical knowledge.

Read the Indezine review of YawnBuster.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

PowerPoint 2007 to EXE

Among the most popular pages on Indezine are those that show you how you can create an EXE from a PowerPoint presentation without having to buy any extra software. However, we still had to update our tutorial for PowerPoint 2007, especially as PowerPoint 2003 users could no longer create an EXE successfully if they had PowerPoint 2007 installed as well.

PowerPoint 2007 includes the Package for CD feature, which we’ll use with a cool and undocumented Windows utility to create a standalone EXE file from PPT or PPTX presentations that can play on any system with Windows XP, Vista, or higher installed.

Explore our series on creating an EXE from a slide deck in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, Prepare, Share, Tutorials

Freepath 2: The Lou Douros Interview

Lou Douros co-founded Freepath. His passion for story and compassion for digital storytellers fueled the desire to bridge the gap between content and audience. Lou contributed to the earliest Freepath user experience. Most recently, he co-designed a site where world class, multi-format, native content could move fluidly between communicators, Freepath’s social network MyFreepath. Lou sees the world as places made up of people described by their stories; increasingly made up of digital content. His 20+ years of remote video production experience informs his continuing quest to move and be moved by inspired ideas.

In this interview, Lou discusses the new Freepath 2.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Freepath, Interviews, Lou Douros, Playlists, PowerPoint

Motion Path Animations — Open and Close Motion Paths

Much of what you can do with motion path animations in PowerPoint relates to what you can do with the motion paths themselves. And the motion paths are essentially just ordinary paths (or lines) that have curves, points, etc. If you are familiar with drawing in PowerPoint, or if you use a graphic illustration program like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW, you know that paths can be either open or closed.

A circle is a good example of a closed path, whereas a curve is an open path. So, how is the concept of open and closed paths relevant to motion path animations in PowerPoint?

Explore open and closed paths for Motion Path animations in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007

Articulate Presenter ’09: The Indezine Review

Articulate Presenter ’09 is the new version of Articulate Presenter, a product that plugs into Microsoft PowerPoint, and allows you to create interactive rich-media content. In addition, Presenter allows you to insert quizzes created in Articulate Quizmaker ’09, interactions created in Articulate Engage ’09, FLV Flash videos converted in Articulate Video Encoder ’09, Flash animations, narrations, and web objects to the presentation.

Read the Indezine review of Articulate Presenter ’09.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Articulate, PowerPoint, Review