Multimedia: Mr. Copel

1. Multimedia: Mr. Copel • PowerPoint • Video Projection • Web-based hybrids

2. Workshop : PowerPoint, LCD Proj, Dreamweaver Integration: Copel • Where are teacher’s having problems-issues? • Creating PowerPoint presentations? • Showing PowerPoint presentations? • Using video-LCD projectors? • Developing web-based tools?

3. Issue #1 Differing Versions PowerPoint Issue1:We all have differing versions of PowerPoint! • We will try to address the concepts of integrating PP into your class, I will not be going into the nuts and bolts of how to do animations/ transitions/custom graphics/ word-art. • These are handled in different manners in different versions and you can often get the “how to” for your version from the help menu of the problem. • Email me if you have a question but many times it can be found in the help menu! scopel@sleepingdogstudios.com • Sleeping Dog Studiosis my website

4. PowerPoint: basic tips • Basics of creating a PowerPoint presentation • Creating text: type in or cut and paste from a website • Adding images: cut and paste from web, resizing and cropping images

5. PowerPoint: basic tips • Issues to watch for: • Watch for colorcombinations: what looks easy to read on a monitor may shift when projected. • I recommend dark backgrounds with light letters.

6. PowerPoint: basic tips • Issues to watch for: • Watch for how much you try to fit into a page: I often see people attempt to insert far too much data into a slide than is readable. • What works on an individual monitor will not be readable to someone in the back of the room on a small screen. • Design than step back. Always design for the context. (design is always contextual)

7. PowerPoint: basic tips • Issues to watch for: • Watch for your fonts: keep fonts simple and readable. Same as above: design for your context, what is the intended use? • Is this always on monitor, on web, or projected or possibly all three?

8. Video in PowerPoint • Inserting video files: 2 ways • Use insert command: from menu bar, allows you to select text that will call the video file. (PP 7 and newer) directly from your files • Insert menu> media clips> select Movie • Attach your movie file directly; when you save your presentation it will save your movie along with the file in the presentation. • This works better than linking to a file on the web but it makes the PP file size much larger

9. Video in PowerPoint • Copy and paste: You can link to a video’s address on the web by pasting the address into the presentation or by using the Insert menu to insert the web address of the file. • Pros and Cons: • A web video will stutter and stop depending on several factors, bottleneck of the server, how many people accessing network, filters on your system at school. • Internal file on your machine is more reliable, streams uninterrupted and will not be filtered by the school’s server.

10. Video in PowerPoint • To copy the address of a video on the web and insert it into a PP slide: simply copying the link and pasting it into the page works • (important: after you insert the link, hit enter 1 time and a blue line appears underneath the text to indicate it is an active link to an external website)

11. Video in PowerPoint • Problem to watch for: if students access this at home, different students may have different playback engines. • Compatibility may be a problem. Not everyone may be able to access the video. • If they have an older machine, they may be shut out. Be careful not to create “electronic ghetto” by excluding those with older technology.

12. Video in PowerPoint • Inserting web-links: adding non-linear elements to a PowerPoint • Same process as videos: two ways • First way: Use insert command on toolbar: use insert hyperlink

13. Video in PowerPoint • Inserting web-links: adding non-linear elements to a PowerPoint • Same process as videos: two ways • 2ndprocess: simply copy the web address from the top bar of your web engine and paste it into a PowerPoint. Hit enter 1X after pasting and it will underline to show it is a link

14. LCD Video Projectors What is the difference between and LCD and a DLP? • Liquid Crystal Display vs Digital Light processing • DLP usually has a better contrast ratio, started off as more expensive • Both are roughly equivalent in quality and price now

15. LCD Video Projectors What are lumens? • Lumens are brightness, how much light is emitted • 2000 lumens is normal for around 600$ today • 2000 lumens will cut through most ambient light very nicely • Lumens go down as the bulb ages; bulbs do not blow but crystallize slowly, dimming and turning yellow with time. • Rare for one to blow abruptly unless you move a projector while it is very hot and knock the filament. Always let a projector cool until the fan stops or the air coming out is cool to the hand

16. LCD Video Projectors You can use a scan convertor; a small box that converts the signal from VGA (comp monitor norm) to video NCST. • This allows you to send the signal from a computer on a desk to a projector across the room with a regular inexpensive RCA cable rather than a very expensive VGA cable. • VGA requires a VGA amp to boost its signal if the run is longer than 75 feet. (this box costs about 125$ and can be combined with a small wireless video transmitter to give a no-wires approach to projection)

17. LCD Video Projectors What if I have audio? • I suggest buying a small pair of computer speakers “with a powered sub” that has a TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) mini jack. This can connect to your laptop and pull sound. • If you need to show movies from a video DVD player, you may need extra adapters. Some projectors have audio built in but they lack any real volume or low bass output. • A 30$ pair of speakers from Staples will do wonders for your audio.

18. LCD Video Projectors Not enough projection room at class front? • Try using a small mirror to bounce the image. From the menu you can flip for rear projection or for ceiling mount projection.

19. LCD Video Projectors • Video Projector menu settings: brightness, contrast, hue-tint, rear and ceiling project are main menu items to be concerned with. • There is also a function called keystoning. • Keystoningallows you to adjust for projections on an angle that distort an image. Sometimes keystone correction is manual, sometimes automatic.

20. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection • Classroom lectureneeds: • text, • images, • animations, • graphs, • video, • etc. • can be run from a wireless remote from anywhere in the room.

21. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Graphic Organizer: • Can create and use a PowerPoint as a template to direct students in creating a project. • I often use it as a graphic organizer-rubric combined. • This tells students what they need to have for each slide for content in order to earn the points for that slide. • It directs their research and organizes them in a nonthreatening manner.

22. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection • Exported as a webpage: You can export your entire presentation as a single webpage. • It than needs to be uploaded to your website you use with a secondary program. I use Dreamweaver to do this. • Here’s what it looks like: Earth science I Index

23. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Advantages: • It saves time building a single presentation that can encompass many pages, can be an entire lesson, and be called as a single link. • Students with a computer but without PowerPoint can access it because it is in HTML which almost any web browser can read!

24. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Advantages: • Side bar, when clicked on, converts to entire text in the PP for easier reading in an easier to scan format. Can also print from this sidebar.

25. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Advantages: • As a web-file, it does not necessarily have to be on the internet.

26. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Advantages: • As a web-file, it does not necessarily have to be on the internet. • You can build an entire course into a website, put the files in a single folder on a flash drive and carry it around for presentation.

27. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Advantages: • As a web-file, it does not necessarily have to be on the internet. • You can also put it on a computer drive, create a shortcut to the index file, and the shortcut will than launch Explorer and run it as if it is off the internet but with no delay in streaming video or audio files that have high resolutions. • Students can access the work BUT NOT THE INTERNET

28. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Lastly: What if my student does not even have access to a computer?

29. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection Lastly: What if my student does not even have access to a computer? You can print the PowerPoint file as a worksheet that can be easily read and copied.

30. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection To print as worksheet: Open the PowerPoint file simplify the background under the format menu first to white before performing the following steps • Print> • print what > • slides > • grayscale> • handouts> 2 per page • Check Preview before sending to printer • If it looks good, hit PRINT

31. Different Uses for PowerPoint Projection • ANY QUESTIONS?