Presentations

You've created a PowerPoint and you now want to a put it onto the school VLE SMART Moodle) - but how?

Even more annoying, you have accumulated over the past few years many PowerPoint presentations that you use regularly, what can you do?


Host Only

It is far better to host your PowerPoint presentation using one of the following hosts, you will first need to create an account with one or all of the hosts, as each have their own unique features:

SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/

View more presentations from Jutka Czirok.

• Slideshare looks great on your page, and you can also create a slide presenter, One player and several Slideshows, - it also has the largest library of presentations created by other people, some of which I have used on the IB wikispace, it is worth checking out. The down side is any interactiviy or more importantly any hyperlinks you use are not active in you presentation. You can add audio tracks if you wish. 

AuthorStream - http://www.authorstream.com

See more presentations by mschongkong | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations

• AuthorStream allows hyperlinks to be active, and can also have an audio track added.

SlideBoom - http://www.slideboom.com

View more presentations or Upload your own.

• SlideBoom the same as Authorstream, but it just looks better on the screen and the uploading of presentations is far quicker.

Uploaded MS PowerPoint to Google Apps
Using your gmail account you can access Google Docs and Apps, you can upload any PowerPoint presentation

• There can be a loss of functionality, to some of the powerfull functions available in MS PowerPoint
  

All the above are using the following Powerpoint, which of course you can embed as a file into your Moodle course for students to open, remeber that not all students have the latest version of Microsoft office so you might have to save it twice and upload both versions.

Student presentation made using MS PowerPoint 2007
HK1 PowerPoint Presentation

The advantages of adding the presentations into your Moodle course directly:

• adding visual content
• download time quicker

Created in Google Apps 
The range of background themes are limited, but there is a wide range of coloured backgrounds and you can always upload your own images and themes as templates.


 

You can upload images, and videos from YouTube very easily.
The greatest advantage of using a Google presentation is if you want to update / edit or add  a new slide, an it is already embedded into you Moodle course, working in Google it will automatically be updated in your Moodle course.