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The days of endless bullet-point slides in PowerPoint are numbered—or they should be. Adding digital video to your PowerPoint presentation can help you produce a more instructive and compelling show. To do it right, though, you need to understand the issues.
Jan Ozer explains more at the PC Magazine site
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In December 2002, Steven Brier of Practical Growth mailed me to ask for some live support for the distribution of a PowerPoint media creation. The problem was delivery. Steven wanted to create CDs of this presentation that he could give away or sell. The PowerPoint Viewer available at that time was woefully inadequate to cope up with this challenge. Both Steven and I tried different approaches——using DHTML export, Flash output and even replicating the whole presentation in other multimedia programs. The bottom line was that none of them worked——at least none of them captured the original concept anywhere close.
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David Marcovitz is Associate Professor in the Education Department and Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology at Loyola College. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he studied support for technology in elementary schools. He has taught computer applications and computer programming at the high school level, and he has worked as a technology specialist in a high school.
In this interview, David discusses VBA, education and PowerPoint.
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This book extract from PowerPoint for Educators is an Indezine exclusive with permission from David Marcovitz / Libraries Unlimited. This book provides instruction for using Visual Basic Applications to create interactive educational materials in PowerPoint. It’s probably the most extensive book on PowerPoint VBA that you can find anywhere.
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Talk about patterned lines and nine of ten PowerPoint users will have a confused look on their faces. What is a patterned line in PowerPoint parlance? Every element in PowerPoint has a fill and line attribute — patterned lines are just another line attribute.
Here are some samples of patterned lines.
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PowerPoint All Versions
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