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

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

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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

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