Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Convert PowerPoints to Flash

Many instructors have elaborate PowerPoint presentations they have developed over the years to support instruction. Posting these on your course site works, but it does require the user has PowerPoint installed and for it to be started in order to view the presentation. A more elegant thing to do is convert a PPT to Flash--the ubiquitous Flash Player is seamless and requires no extra steps for the majority of users that have it installed. There are a number of software packages that allow you to convert PPT files. I have seen some limited free ones and a number of retails ones. Here is one example:

http://www.articulate.com/products/presenter.php

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