Edublogs Tutorials

Thanks to Amit Agarwal for his tutorial

Why would you want to convert a PPT file to video anyway?

Well, you may want the PPT to go out with music to make it more appealing or you may want it to be iPod compatible.  Both of these are possible

Basically, your powerpoint needs some action

• slide transitions with timings or
• voice narration

if you don’t have any action, then it will remain as a PPT file.

• Get an authorSTREAM account (free)
• upload the PPT file
• wait till it is converted – may take an hour or so
• Download the video file or
• embed it into your blog or add it to iTunes (not managed to do this bit yet!)

You can also do all this from within PowerPoint using authorPOINT lite (free)

• this adds another item to your PowerPoint menu bar
• click on the authorPOINT icon
• This will then allow you to directly upload to
• WizIQ or
• AuthorStream

authorSTREAM is a great tool for getting your powerpoint files into your blog post.

There’s an embed code which is simple to use

authorSTREAM lets you upload Powerpoints, rate them, email them, comment on them and embed the Flash player in blogs and websites.

SlideShare is similar, while Scribd supports the widest range of formats. ZohoShow is another, while the ThinkFree Office suite also offers embedding of documents.

It also seems to have a slightly bigger player. I also notice that my Slideshare instructions have reverted to the original as the new, quick method does not seem to work anymore – see the Powerpoint category for more information

I had not really grasped what this involved but I think delayed intelligence (or not) has finally kicked in.

I was working with a teacher today who used the upload function to host a picture on edublogs – click on browse under the edit box, then upload, after uploading, click “send to editor”

This pops the picture into the page and you can then resize it.

As previously mentioned in another post, I have been using Picasa web albums to host my pictures as I can upload them in bulk – whether I’m going to use them or not.

Adding a photo album slideshow using Picasa web albums (Google)

Anyway – to the point

If you go to your uploaded Google picasa web albums you can view your pictures – and use them easily

Just click your mouse just to the right of the top left hand corner of your picture and it will turn bluish, showing it has been selected.

Now simply copy and paste this into your blog post and resize to fit

I have just been trying to use my old instructions for adding powerpoint presentations to a post with no success. No problems, there’s been an update

It’s now REALLY easy to do – check it out at

Adding a powerpoint player to your post

| View | Upload your own

Many thanks to Graham Warren for this tutorial – here’s his slideshow

hazard symbols slide show
This will allow you to look at a powerpoint file without having to download it – it will play right here in your post – it is a bit fiddly but I think worth the effort

1. register for Slideshare
2. click on upload – this will allow you to upload your presentation
3. click on your slideshow
4. on the right hand side it has 3 boxes with code (html) in them
5. copy the code from “embed in your blog”,
6. Start a new post
7. Add the text you want on the page
8. Go to the code tab
9. Choose where the slideshow will go by clicking the cursor
10. Paste in the code

| View | Upload your own

At the moment, this is the closest I can get to showing PowerPoint presentation without having to download and save it. I will continue to look into this and see if there are any other ways of embedding PowerPoint directly into this type of post.  Before you start, check you have Flash Player 7 or above, or this won’t work.

1. Go to Slideshare
   
2. register an account — it is free
3. click on the upload tab
4. select your PowerPoint file
5. upload it to Slideshare
6. please note files are public — anyone can see them
7. click on grab the URL for any slide
8. copy the content of the box
9. you may then follow one of two paths
10. paste the link into your post
11. or write the name of your PowerPoint file
12. to make this into a link
13. select the text
14. click on the small chain logo in the menus above
15. paste in the URL — the Web address you got from Slideshare
16. click on update
17. this link will now take viewers directly to your Slideshare where they can view the slides
18. they do not need to download any files at all to do this

http://www.slideshare.net/miketemple123/demo-for-producer/1

or

Producer demo slideshow