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Comment on Learning Technologies 2010 – Day One by daveb

daveb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:44:41 +0000

It was a worthwhile day. I didn’t mean to be critical; as you say, you can’t satisfy everyone – and strategy is important – just not my interest. Although there are some that might say it should be

Dave

Comment on Learning Technologies 2010 – Day One by Barry Sampson

Barry Sampson — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:35:47 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that our session wasn’t usual to you, but it sounds like overall you had a worthwhile day.

It can be difficult to pitch these sessions so they’ll work for everyone, particularly as LT attracts such a diverse audience. Our aim was to provide something useful to anyone contemplating some form of in house elearning production. My hope is that anyone in that situation would have left the session with some useful pointers.

Barry

Comment on BETT 2010 by lee widra

lee widra — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:05:30 +0000

Hi, Lee from designyourschool.com, many thanks for putting us on your blog. The BETT show was fantastic and the response to our software has been really great. We do feel it is reaaly important for teachers and people who understand the learning process to be able to visualise, understand, challenge and really think about what their learning spaces can look like and how this can support transformational learning… Whether schools are going through a new build or you’re in an existing school we hope our software can be useful.. We’ve had lots of students using the software to design their own schools and classrooms with some great results…

Comment on Overseas On-line Access to our Courses by daveb

daveb — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:34:18 +0000

At the moment, the IT Learning Programme only makes our on-line material available to members of the University. However, we are actively looking into making some of our resources more freely available, perhaps through an open courseware initiative. Watch this space!

The University does run a number of on-line courses; you can find details at http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/online_and_distance_courses.

Comment on Using Sound and Video in PowerPoint by oxforditlp

oxforditlp — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:23:05 +0000

Sound files are treated a little differently to video files in PowerPoint. Small sound files are incorporated into the slideshow; when you copy the slideshow, the sound is copied with it. For larger sound files, PowerPoint leaves them as external files and links to them; when you copy the slideshow, you have to always remember to copy the sond files as well.

The limit that PowerPoint uses for sound files when deciding whether to embedd the file or not is set to 100KB by default, You can change it:

In PowerPoint 2007, click on the Office button, select PowerPoint Options (bottom of the menu), click Advanced, scroll down to the Save section, adjust the limit.

In PowerPoint 2003, use the Tools|Options menu item, click on the General tab, adjust the limit

PowerPoint supports a number of sound formats, but I have a suspicion that it only embeds WAV format sound files, even if the size is less than the limit you set.

I ALWAYS place all media files in the same folder as the slide show BEFORE I include them in a slide. When I need to copy the slideshow, I copy the complete folder. It can be a little wasteful of space, but it can save a lot of embarrasment when you find the media doesn’t play.

Most email clients don’t allow you to attach a folder, so if you need to email the presentation, you will need to zip it into a compressed folder. But remember, slideshows with multimedia can be BIG, so emailing isn’t always a good idea (and may not even be possible!).

If you want to play an audio file across multiple slides (so it doesn’t stop when you change slides), you need to set this up in PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint 2007, insert the sound as normal. Then click on the animations tab in the ribbon and choose custom animation. The custom animation pane will appear at the right of the window. There will be an entry in the animation list for the sound clip. Click on the drop down arrow to the right of the entry and choose Effect options. In the Effect tab of the Play Sound dialog, set a value in the Stop playing After which is more than the number of slides in the presentation. Click OK.
In PowerPoint 2003, the process is the same. To get to the Custom Animation panel, use the Slide Show | Custom Animation menu option.

Comment on Using Sound and Video in PowerPoint by babs

babs — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:37:16 +0000

I often cannot get the sound to play with Power Point slides.
This is a new Occurance….or sometimes it plays music for the first slide and then disappears. What is the problem…people I Fwd it to do not have a problem…HELP Thanks I do not have this problem with any other videos with sound. babs