All about presentations » PowerPoint http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org PowerPoint and e-learning Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Adobe Presenter http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/2008/07/22/adobe-presenter/ http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/2008/07/22/adobe-presenter/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:45:03 +0000 katarinanovak http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/?p=25 In my previous posts I’ve already told you my story on how I was choosing best PowerPoint to Flash conversion software. I found it and it is definitely iSpring Pro for me. But in the very beginning of my search I was reading tons of information on web about flash and other converters and of course, came across this news that Adobe planned to release their own software to convert PowerPoint to flash. At the moment I was doing my little survey it hasn’t appeared yet but now it is released and of course I couldn’t fight this temptation to try it and see how it works myself.

It took me some time to download Adobe Presenter (49 Mb) but it was worth it. The first thing what I liked a lot was Adobe Presenter Sample presentation that shows you how to work with the software.  It was very comfortable for me since I didn’t have to search the web site to learn more about features or see tutorials. Easy explanation was already there! Don’t you think it’s cool?! This is how one of the slides looks like:

You know one of the features I liked the most was that I could record my audio and synchronize it with animations. It was not that hard as I thought! The same happened with video. I was amazed and of course, I couldn’t resist trying my own test presentation with that tool. And Adobe Presenter really did a good job.  I even thought to buy it but… Five hundred is a lot for me.  My iSpring works perfectly well and satisfies all of my needs, I closed my PowerPoint and went to the gym.

 

 

 

]]> http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/2008/07/22/adobe-presenter/feed/ 0 PowerPoint 2007: love it or hate it? http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/2008/07/03/powerpoint-2007-love-it-or-hate-it/ http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/2008/07/03/powerpoint-2007-love-it-or-hate-it/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:02:15 +0000 katarinanovak http://katarinanovak.edublogs.org/?p=24 When you wake up in the morning one of the first things you do – go to the kitchen and make a cup of coffee. You take your favorite cup with that phrase “You are a boss”, put sugar, cream, coffee and hot water and here we go! You feel that smell and taste of your morning. And this is so natural. As for me when I do all this in the morning I don’t think. I just do it. I got used to it. The same situation was with PowerPoint for me, PowerPoint 2003. When I created my slideshows I did it fast and easy.  Then Office 2007 has been released and oops. It’s like you bought a coffee machine. Your morning is different now. And only in a couple of weeks you realize that this coffee machine is actually good and the coffee it makes is great. This is what has happened to me with PowerPoint 2007. I hate it in the beginning but now I truly love it: design, structure and functionality. What about you?

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