12/23/2009

Free Christmas PowerPoint Templates Available at Dvd-ppt-slideshow.com



Cute PowerPoint Templates for Christmas DVD Photo Album, Family Game Video, Company Party Slideshow, Holiday Recipe Tutorial, and etc. Totally Free to Download at http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com



Christmas is at your fingertips! Only 2 days left. Now your Christmas shopping is about to close, and your holiday crafts come to a climax. There is one more thing that you must not miss, i.e. taking down everything Christmas, esp. impressive holiday episodes, to share with your beloved family and friends. If you're bored of pre-set backgrounds and templates in your Microsoft Office, and looking for a special PowerPoint template to digitalize your Christmas decorations, games, parties and crafts, here you come. It is lovely news that Moyea Software has released a NEW bank of Christmas PowerPoint templates, which is available for free at http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-templates/christmas-powerpoint-templates.html


Here are 2 sample images from the Christmas PowerPoint templates:


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Click and get a UNIQUE PowerPoint template for your Christmas story, game, party, and photo album!


Related:


Free Christmas PowerPoint Backgrounds Blue, White, Red


11/24/2009

Get Black Friday Video Ads Out of PowerPoint


Crazy sales seem to be the best move to describe Black Friday. Internet, with its rising power in worldwide connection, has been casting a big drive to a boosting Black Friday shopping online. Whether you are a company representative dealing with e-trade or an individual e-storeowner, it's time to seize the opportunity to fight in the best buying time - Black Friday from Thanksgiving to Christmas. As to the marketing strategy, you cannot ignore video, today's most popular media across the Internet, known for its web flexibility and visualization. Video ad is one of the sharpest weapons for your Black Friday business.


You can use a video camera to carve your product ads. However, there is an easy and economic alternative to make a video ad, i.e. to employ the power of MS PowerPoint, a dominant authoring tool for dynamic content creation. You can compose your Black Friday ads with PowerPoint, convert the presentation to video with a PowerPoint to video converter, and post the video ads of your products to your blogs, podcasts, video hosting sites like YouTube, Metacafe, Facebook, MySpace, and etc.


To capture more audience, you'd make a compelling product ad in PowerPoint. That's the first step. Simple as using PowerPoint, there are several tips you'd better pay attention to when building the "visual image" of your product.


Seven tips for creating a successful business PowerPoint presentation


1.Take Professional Business Templates or Backgrounds
It's not for family or friends. It's for selective customers. Use formal business templates/backgrounds instead of those gaudy colors. Click here for free business PowerPoint templates and backgrounds.


2. Simplify Your Ad Theme with Logical Key Points
More phrases, less sentences. That's the key to the simplicity of your Black Friday presentation. List the content of your ad presentation with three to five points. Limit the bullets to less than 6 in each slide.


3. Use Formal Fonts in the Black Friday presentation
To describe your product, use common fonts like Arial, Times New Roman or Verdana, rather than fancy fonts like Comic. Use bold large fonts (36 pts or bigger) for the titles and smaller fonts for the content (usu. no less than 30 pts) so that it can be read on screen when converted to video.


4. More Slides Don't Mean More Profits
Maybe you just want to include more about your products. But you should know it's not the number that matters, it's the shines that your ad gives out. Too many slides will distract rather than keep the audience. You can adjust the slide transitions to figure out an appropriate duration for the video ad, usu. no longer than 5 minutes.


5. Photos and Graphics Worth A Thousand of Words
Product photos or related are necessary to the Black Friday PowerPoint ad. To convey your selling ideas better, you can integrate quality photos, charts or clips relevant with the text. A PowerPoint ad full of text slides is not a real PowerPoint result.


6. Add in Animations and Transitions to Your Ad
A rich range of animations and transitions constitute the dynamic soul of PowerPoint. Sort some for your ad presentation. Note that you should avoid too much of such good effects. Otherwise, it will achieve the opposite to your expectation.


7. Give Some Thought to A Mood Music or Your Voice-cover
As it's going to be a self-running video, you can insert a piece of soundtrack, your very voice narration (if you have a trained voice), or even a movie clip that matches the product ad. Make your ad a cheer or a relief to your customers.


Following the seven tips above, you can make a better business PowerPoint ad. Next, you need to ensure that the PowerPoint ad for Black Friday can play on any computer. To distribute your ad faster and father, finalize in universal video with a tool like Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Click here to see how to convert your Black Friday ad from PowerPoint to video.


Once you get a Black Friday ad video out of PowerPoint, you can upload it to YouTube, copy the embed code to your blogs, Twitter and submit it to many social networking sites for vast traffic.


11/16/2009

Convert PowerPoint to Flash Video (FLV), Easier than You Can Think


PowerPoint, the predominant desktop app to create illustrated document in offices. Flash Video, the beloved of the Web to spread animated document out of office. Many companies and none-profit institutions do appeal to both PowerPoint and flash videos. To make further reach to a presentation, you may consider converting the PowerPoint to flash video (.flv).


Don't have an idea of flash video?


Here's a brief introduction.
Flash video, short for FLV, is a media file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6-10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files, within which the audio and video data are encoded in the same way. Flash video is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and many other third-party players like MPlayer, VLC media player, QuickTime and Moyea Web Player. With small size, flash video has established its name as the choice format for embedded video on the web. It is used by web services like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe.



What Can You Benefit from converting PowerPoint to Flash Video?



1 1. Be friendlier to your audience. There are much more computers installed with a flash player than a PowerPoint program compatible with yours. That is, your audience will get a quick access to your presentation masterpiece in Flash Video. And, a flash video online is more intuitive than a PowerPoint presentation to download.
2 2. Smaller size makes more sense. A PowerPoint file turned in flash video is much smaller than its original size. A credit to fast web distribution. To insert a presentation to your blog, a web video service like YouTube, you'd better reformat it to such swift FLV file.
3 3. Hassle free from PowerPoint emailing. Many users suffered from emailing a clumsy PowerPoint file to a client or a friend. With the presentation in small flash video via an online web service, they don't have to email it while the viewers won't bother to wait and download.
4 4. Safeguard your presentation work. A PowerPoint file is liable to being stolen by unwanted hands, e.g. your rival companies, with minor modification. When you finalize it in flash video, one cannot edit it with ease. Your content will be safer during web distribution.



What Tool You Need to Convert a PowerPoint presentation to FLV?



When Google or Bing, you may be dazzled by a cluster of programs that claimed to convert PowerPoint to flash video. If you are not to bother to a fussy trial of each program, you can trust me with this dedicated PowerPoint to FLV converter - Moyea PPT4Web Converter. It is one of the pioneer programs that shows proven performance in converting a PowerPoint presentation to flash video without any loss of original effects.

Before the conversion, check your presentation carefully, for instance, the text fonts, the slide transitions, animations, inserted sound or movie clips, until satisfying.


Below comes a short guide of converting PowerPoint to FLV with Moyea PPT4Web.
Step step 1 Install and launch Moyea PPT4Web Converter. Import the PowerPoint file(s) you want to convert to flash video.
Step step 2 Select the output as FLV or any other flash player supported file formats (MP4, MOV, 3G2, 3GP). Customize each output parameter if necessary. You can also follow the Web Player icon link to get a flash player if there isn't one on your local drive.
Step step 3 Click Start to start converting your PowerPoint presentation to Flash Video.


Very simple, isn't it? In a minute or two, you will get a flash video out of your PPT file. Now, it is a snap for you to upload the flash video slideshow on the Web, distribute anywhere possible to reach more audience.


You may also need to
Embed Flash video (FLV) into PowerPoint




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11/10/2009

Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 Still on 20% Discount, Supports Windows 7 and 23 Video Formats


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Summary: Leawo Software upgrades the on-sale, Windows-7-tested PowerPoint to DVD Burner to Version 3.4 with 23 video output formats supported.



Shenzhen, P.R. China - November 7, 2009 -- Leawo Software (http://www.leawo.com/), an innovative developer and distributor of multimedia shareware as well as freeware, today announced the release of Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4, the 20% off converting tool, being tested on Windows 7 and increasing the video output formats from 13 to 23.


With excellent built-in burning engine, Leawo PowerPoint to DVD burns a dozen of presentations onto a DVD for users to play on a DVD player hooked to TV, or to present on another computer with different OS or even without PowerPoint. It does more than burning PowerPoint to DVD. It creates PowerPoint-based video for presentation users with a view to broadcasting on the Web like YouTube, MySpace, an individual site, and showing on a mobile like iPhone and Blackberry.


Existing feature highlights of Leawo PowerPoint to DVD include:



  • Simple elegant User Interface - Even a novice user can quickly get up with the conversion tool in simple intuitive UI.

  • Themed DVD menu templates - Under the Menu tab, there are a wide range of DVD menu templates for users to remote control a DVD slideshow on TV

  • Lovely slide shifting modes - Two slide-shifting modes: One Slide One Chapter and One Animation One Chapter, accommodate to diverse needs.

  • Logo to brand and protect - A cool Logo feature for users to add in a watermark to personalize and protect the DVD/video presentation from piracy.

  • Retain every dynamic - If a user has a sound, a video clip, animations and transitions in his presentation, he doesn't need to worry about any loss of them, for Leawo PowerPoint to DVD never miss a single effect during conversion.

  • Output to 13 video formats - it converts a PPT file to 13 popular video output formats, e.g. ASF, AVI, DAT, DV, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, TS and VOB and WMV.


New functionalities that wings Leawo PowerPoint to DVD3.4:


* Support Windows 7 - Good news for Windows 7 users is that Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 has been tested to work fine on it.


* More powerful Video Profile - The new Version 3.4 has 10 new video formats added in, i.e. RM, RA, MKV, MKA, Wii AVI, Wii MOV, NDS DPG, NDS DPG2, NDS DPG3 and NDS DPG4.


* Better encoding on pictures - For a presentation with linked pictures, Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 has improved audio and video encoders to kill any distortion in graphics.


Another merit for Leawo PowerPoint to DVD lies in its price. As it is still on sale, users can save $20 for converting a PowerPoint presentation to DVD and video, while enjoy an abundant increase of video features.


Price and Availability
Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 applies to Windows 7, Windows XP/2000/NT/Vista. Each license, regularly at $ 99.95, is now $79.95 (US) per computer. For registered customers, free life-long updates and technical support of the product are granted. More discounts are available to volume buyers of 5 or above.


For more information on the product and the free evaluation copy, explore in the product page http://www.leawo.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/


Links
Product Page: http://www.leawo.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/
Direct Download: http://www.leawo.com/download/powerpoint-to-dvd/leawo_ppt2dvd_setup.exe
Company Website: http://www.leawo.com




10/19/2009

Moyea Launches Windows 7 Compatible PowerPoint to DVD Burner Lite 1.3 with 10 New Video Outputs

Shenzhen, P.R. China - July 19, 2009 -- Moyea Software (http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com), a developer and distributor specialized in multimedia PowerPoint, DVD and Video converting tools and video players, now unveils the third upgrade of PPT to DVD Burner Lite, i.e. Version 1.3. This upgrade features 3 worth-mentioning highlights, respectively as Windows 7 supportable, enriched Video Profile with 10 new video formats, and enhanced synchronization in picture-linked presentations. Now more Windows users, no matter teachers, business professionals or government officials, knowing programming or not, can transform their presentations from PowerPoint straight to DVD and video for a universal sharing.

"Current enterprises and institutions use PowerPoint to give presentations within the staff. And they also want the info in the presentations to reach more people outside." said Steven, General Manager at Moyea Software. "With Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.3, any PowerPoint user can burn a presentation onto a DVD and convert it to a variety of video formats. So their ideas and wits, written on a desktop presentation, now become accessible to a vast majority online or before a DVD player."

Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite, a slimmed edition in the PowerPoint to DVD Family, captures what is in a selected PPT file and codes everything within to universal-standard DVD and video. Users of the software can also customize the content by adding in a soundtrack or a voice-cover with the Music tab, a favorite logo with the Logo feature, choosing a delicate DVD menu template from the DVD menu, and tweaking detailed DVD or video profile parameters.
To optimize user experience largely and improve the conversion stability, these new features are included in the PowerPoint to DVD and video app:

1. 10 New video output options to accompany with 13 existing ones
Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.3 caters to users with a stronger support on PowerPoint-video variety. Now the Lite users can output a presentation to 23 video formats in a few clicks, formerly containing 13 as ASF, AVI, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, 3G2, MP4, VOB, WMV, MOV, TS, DV, DAT and now 10 added as RM, RA, MKV, MKA, Wii AVI, Wii MOV, NDS DPG, NDS DPG2, NDS DPG3 and NDS DPG4.

2. Standard DVD and High-definition DVD that works with 2 International TV standards
The PPT to DVD Lite 1.3 provides users with 2 DVD output options that suit to the 2 International TV standards (NTSC and PAL/SECAM) for their presentations, padded by an easy-to-get DVD Options menu available to advanced settings.

3. Output PowerPoint to a good many of video-hosting end devices
Apart from video format, the conversion program also let users to choose a proper video output by end device, i.e. where the final PowerPoint video is going to play. These video-supported devices include iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, PMP, Windows Mobile, Xbox and more.

4. Built-in burning engine to burn PowerPoint files directly to a DVD disc
Without bothering to a third-party DVD burner, users may find an ease of the Lite that burns a batch of PowerPoint presentations to a blank DVD in several mouse clicks.

5. Smoother synchronization for PowerPoint presentations with linked pictures
After hundreds of lab tests on the PPT2DVD Lite in request of a few customer bug reports, the Moyea Product Developer team managed to set up better audio-visual codecs for picture-linked PPT files.

6. Capable of keeping all dynamic effects from PowerPoint to DVD and video
Users who have added an animation, a transition, a sound or movie clip to their presentations will never be upset by an effect loss, when converting with the PowerPoint to DVD Lite.

Pricing and Availability
Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite 1.3 applies to any popular Windows OS, e.g. Windows 7/XP/2000/NT/Vista. It has a retail price of $79.95 (US) on a per-computer license, with an unlimited free trial. Registered customers of the product are entitled to free unlimited updates as well as the first priority to relevant technical support. Bulk purchase of 5 licenses or more will enjoy corresponding volume discounts.
For more info on Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Lite, please refer to the product page http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/

Related Links
Product page: http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/
Download link: http://www.moyeamedia.com/download/ppt2dvdlite/ppt2dvd_lite_setup.exe
E-mail: support@dvd-ppt-slideshow.com

10/14/2009

Back to School Guide: Show Your Back-to-school Lesson Plan in PowerPoint

Script out your PowerPoint lesson plans from the day one back to school yet? Kids are going back to school, and as a teacher, you face the hot potato of ice-break, confidence-rebuild task, always beginning with a cheerful lesson plan. And most of you teaching peers tool the first back-to-school lesson plan with the smart MS PowerPoint. Sometimes, these back-to-school lesson plans are transformed from PowerPoint to video or DVD video that is cooler and that can span from across the Internet to a home TV. Can't believe it? That's absolutely true, and quite simple if you take a screen-capture program like Camtasia or a PowerPoint to DVD and video converter like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.

Nevertheless, you should brick up your back-to-school lesson plan first - to define what you want to teach, to develop clear and specific objectives, to write an Anticipatory Set and step-by-step procedures to reach the objectives, to include a closure for the lesson plan, and to figure out your assessment/evaluation. Only then, can it be the best time to beautify it with PowerPoint and finalize it in sleek video or DVD. If you have no idea of how to begin, these sites with back to school lesson plans may give you a glimmer:

NCSL offers a systemic back-to-school program with lesson plans ranging from high school, middle school and elementary school. You can download a proper one for classroom use.

The Lesson Plans Page hosts a colorful collection of back to school lesson plans for kids. Discover one that comes to your taste, and also submit your fabulous lesson plan to the learning community.

A to Z Teacher Stuff provides you an abundant directory of lesson plans and teaching resources, containing from back-to-school themes and thematic units, literature & book activities, to math, science, learning centers, social studies, computers, reading, writing, P.E./health, cooperative learning.

Scholastic sets back-to-school lesson plans that you can grasp at a glance by well-organized categories, either from pre-school to grade 12, or from math to science.

Teaching with Historic Places lets you celebrate the first days of new school year with lesson plans that consider important aspects of the history of education and educational facilities. Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, the lessons are free and ready for immediate classroom use by students in history and social studies classes.

To deliver the back to school lesson plan via a sheer paper or an audiovisual presentation, it depends on your existing classroom facilities. Personally, I prefer the audiovisual teaching method – whether in original PowerPoint or processed DVD or video. If a picture is worth a thousand of words, an animated video, especially a movie-feel DVD must be worth ten thousands. Give a try to such a dynamic practice of lesson plan to gear your resistant kids back to school. Here I would like to add a word on how to turning your lesson plan presentation to video or DVD with Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.

It is a 3-click task.

1. Install and launch the .exe file of Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.

2. Import your PowerPoint presentation of back to school lesson plan, select an output option, either DVD (you can choose Standard or High Definition) or video (about 12 popular video format in total), set the output details in Advanced Settings and indentify with a logo if necessary.

3. Click the Start button, under the Burn tab, to start converting your lesson plan PPT file to video or DVD.

Note: The PowerPoint to DVD and video conversion program has a built-in burning engine that can burn your presentation to a blank DVD.

Then, at the first day of the new school year, you can show the students your spectacular lesson plan slideshow with a projected laptop or even a DVD player attached to a big-screen TV. It is also a good idea to leave a moment for independent practice during the lesson plan slideshow.

You may aslo look for

Free Education PowerPoint Templates

Convert School PowerPoint Slideshow to DVD/Video

Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu EditionPPT to DVD Education
Burn school PowerPoint slideshow to DVD for Viewing on TV via DVD player.

Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu EditionPPT to video Education
Convert school PowerPoint slideshow to video for distritubing to students.

10/09/2009

Convert Church PowerPoint Presentation to Video for Sharing Online

Take nimble sermon PowerPoint video from Moyea PPT to Video Converter, to warm the whole world in the big depression

Apart from schools and enterprises, PowerPoint also shows a particular shine in church use. Now God can eye a PowerPoint-based worship, sermon, or prayer penetrate in slimmed video, to reach more Christians beyond a separate church, to encourage the world's hurt and hungered in this big depression. As a priest or pastor, you may often use PowerPoint to make an in-door sermon presentation for the local parish.


Have you ever felt like sharing your brilliant PPT presentation with more fellow Christians via the buzzing Web? Mmm, you can conceive a great pull with those who are seeking a help hand, by stretching the power of your sermon presentation from fixed PowerPoint on a single PC to flying video across the entire Internet. And the tool that makes that true and simple, is a deft conversion program called Moyea PPT to Video Converter. It can be an assistant of you to shape your sermon PowerPoint presentation to a clear-cut lossless video that accommodates to your Home Page, church blogs, podcasts and online video church sites.

Well then, how to create a Christian video with MS PowerPoint and the intermediate converter? Making a sermon

PowerPoint video is almost a no-brainer if you follow these 2 procedures:

  • Phase 1: Compile the sermon presentation script in PowerPoint

  • Phase 2: Convert the sermon PowerPoint presentation to video

Procedures of Creating a Sermon Slideshow Video

Compose sermon presentation in PowerPoint Phase 1: Compile the sermon presentation script in PowerPoint

To make a thrilling sermon slideshow video, you should develop a thrilling sermon PowerPoint original first.

Generally, there are 5 steps for composing a complete PowerPoint presentation, shown as below:

a. Select a matching layout for the sermon PowerPoint
This includes the slide mode, PowerPoint background or template. Although MS PowerPoint itself has a few built-in templates for your sermon presentation, you can taste some others with a typical Christian style to outstand. You can get free Christian PowerPoint templates and backgrounds at eBibleTeacher.com, ChristianPPT.com, ParadiseDesign.com


Step 2 b. Add or import the text with illustrations for the sermon PowerPoint

The core is the content. Your audience would be evoked quickly by an illustrated, well-organized sermon story. Structure the text and the pictures. Use short words and phrases instead of long sentences. Note that audience would often turn around for another when coming to a video with blurred graphics. So remember to choose quality pictures for your sermon PowerPoint. Tune the text and the pictures till perfect. See also PowerPoint font tips for your sermon presentation.


Step 3 c. Wing the sermon PowerPoint presentation with animations and transitions

How would you like the sermon presentation move on? You'd better rely on the magic of MS PowerPoint, a rich range of animations and transitions. Animate the Christian artwork to achieve more.


Step 4 d. Give a dynamic mood (music or movie clip) to the sermon PowerPoint Church is always associated with merry hymns. Why not move the merry mood to your sermon PowerPoint presentation? Any Christian online will be very likely to hear your dynamic message! Alternatively, you can use an old movie clip that fits the sermon to add a touch. Click here for details on how to insert music to your church PowerPoint presentation, how to add a video to your Christian PowerPoint


Step 5 e. Test! Test! Test!

A presentation without tested practice is never a good presentation. When you are about to finish the sermon presentation, don't forget to test the integral effect. Check the sermon
slideshow from a global view, looking through to see whether each PowerPoint element is coherent with another. If you want the church sound to play across all the slides, check whether it is exactly as long as the slideshow. If not, adjust the slide transitions to make them accord.


Convert sermon PowerPoint presentation to video Phase 2: Convert the sermon PowerPoint presentation to video

Now the sermon presentation is ready, it is time to stream it to video with Moyea PPT to Video Converter. The PowerPoint video converting app has a 6-language interface, supports 12 more video output file formats, 14 more audiooutput file formats, and outputs to dozens of end devices from desktop to portable. It is all in 3 mouse clicks:

I. Install and run Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Import your sermon PowerPoint presentation.

II. Select a proper video output format as listed in the Profile. Specify an output folder for the
video output. If you like, personalize the video slideshow sermon with Customize,
Music, and Advanced Settings features.

III. Click Start to start the conversion from your sermon PowerPoint to video. In a minute or two, the sermon PowerPoint relives as a vivid video resembling the original animations, transitions, music or movie clips.

Voila! Publish the sermon PowerPoint video to YouTube, connect it to your favorite online Christian community, link it to your Church Podcast and blog, hook it to your iPhone or Blackberry to give a mobile presentation, and do anything that it can help do to spread God's spirit and better the world.

Convert Church PowerPoint Presentation to Video for Sharing Online

Take nimble sermon PowerPoint video from Moyea PPT to Video Converter, to warm the whole world in the big depression

Apart from schools and enterprises, PowerPoint also shows a particular shine in church use. Now God can eye a PowerPoint-based worship, sermon, or prayer penetrate in slimmed video, to reach more Christians beyond a separate church, to encourage the world's hurt and hungered in this big depression. As a priest or pastor, you may often use PowerPoint to make an in-door sermon presentation for the local parish.


Have you ever felt like sharing your brilliant PPT presentation with more fellow Christians via the buzzing Web? Mmm, you can conceive a great pull with those who are seeking a help hand, by stretching the power of your sermon presentation from fixed PowerPoint on a single PC to flying video across the entire Internet. And the tool that makes that true and simple, is a deft conversion program called Moyea PPT to Video Converter. It can be an assistant of you to shape your sermon PowerPoint presentation to a clear-cut lossless video that accommodates to your Home Page, church blogs, podcasts and online video church sites.

Well then, how to create a Christian video with MS PowerPoint and the intermediate converter? Making a sermon

PowerPoint video is almost a no-brainer if you follow these 2 procedures:

  • Phase 1: Compile the sermon presentation script in PowerPoint

  • Phase 2: Convert the sermon PowerPoint presentation to video

Procedures of Creating a Sermon Slideshow Video

Compose sermon presentation in PowerPoint Phase 1: Compile the sermon presentation script in PowerPoint

To make a thrilling sermon slideshow video, you should develop a thrilling sermon PowerPoint original first.

Generally, there are 5 steps for composing a complete PowerPoint presentation, shown as below:

a. Select a matching layout for the sermon PowerPoint
This includes the slide mode, PowerPoint background or template. Although MS PowerPoint itself has a few built-in templates for your sermon presentation, you can taste some others with a typical Christian style to outstand. You can get free Christian PowerPoint templates and backgrounds at eBibleTeacher.com, ChristianPPT.com, ParadiseDesign.com


Step 2 b. Add or import the text with illustrations for the sermon PowerPoint

The core is the content. Your audience would be evoked quickly by an illustrated, well-organized sermon story. Structure the text and the pictures. Use short words and phrases instead of long sentences. Note that audience would often turn around for another when coming to a video with blurred graphics. So remember to choose quality pictures for your sermon PowerPoint. Tune the text and the pictures till perfect. See also PowerPoint font tips for your sermon presentation.


Step 3 c. Wing the sermon PowerPoint presentation with animations and transitions

How would you like the sermon presentation move on? You'd better rely on the magic of MS PowerPoint, a rich range of animations and transitions. Animate the Christian artwork to achieve more.


Step 4 d. Give a dynamic mood (music or movie clip) to the sermon PowerPoint Church is always associated with merry hymns. Why not move the merry mood to your sermon PowerPoint presentation? Any Christian online will be very likely to hear your dynamic message! Alternatively, you can use an old movie clip that fits the sermon to add a touch. Click here for details on how to insert music to your church PowerPoint presentation, how to add a video to your Christian PowerPoint


Step 5 e. Test! Test! Test!

A presentation without tested practice is never a good presentation. When you are about to finish the sermon presentation, don't forget to test the integral effect. Check the sermon
slideshow from a global view, looking through to see whether each PowerPoint element is coherent with another. If you want the church sound to play across all the slides, check whether it is exactly as long as the slideshow. If not, adjust the slide transitions to make them accord.


Convert sermon PowerPoint presentation to video Phase 2: Convert the sermon PowerPoint presentation to video

Now the sermon presentation is ready, it is time to stream it to video with Moyea PPT to Video Converter. The PowerPoint video converting app has a 6-language interface, supports 12 more video output file formats, 14 more audiooutput file formats, and outputs to dozens of end devices from desktop to portable. It is all in 3 mouse clicks:

I. Install and run Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Import your sermon PowerPoint presentation.

II. Select a proper video output format as listed in the Profile. Specify an output folder for the
video output. If you like, personalize the video slideshow sermon with Customize,
Music, and Advanced Settings features.

III. Click Start to start the conversion from your sermon PowerPoint to video. In a minute or two, the sermon PowerPoint relives as a vivid video resembling the original animations, transitions, music or movie clips.

Voila! Publish the sermon PowerPoint video to YouTube, connect it to your favorite online Christian community, link it to your Church Podcast and blog, hook it to your iPhone or Blackberry to give a mobile presentation, and do anything that it can help do to spread God's spirit and better the world.

9/23/2009

How to Add an iTunes Sound to PowerPoint Presentation

Add music, add a mood to your PowerPoint presentation. You wanna use a song from iTunes store as background music of the PowerPoint file? Oops, there is a format problem. PowerPoint doesn't accept iTunes music, which is encoded in M4P. You need to make a format alternation before inserting the iTunes sound into your presentation.

Here I will discuss in 2 sections how to convert iTunes music to a PowerPoint-supported audio format, and how to import the converted iTunes sound to PowerPoint 2003/2007.

Section 1 Convert iTunes Music to PowerPoint compatible audio (e.g. MP3)

Mentioning this issue, we should know which sound formats are compatible with PowerPoint.
Audio file formats compatible with PowerPoint 2003/2007 include: AIFF, AU, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA
Among the sound formats above, MP3 is the most familiar to us, with its small size and good sound quality. So to convert iTunes music to PowerPoint compatible format often means to realize the conversion from M4P to MP3.
Generally, you can try these two ways to convert an iTunes track to MP3 audio format.

Method 1 Burn and Rip the iTunes music to MP3 for PowerPoint

  • In the iTunes store, select the track that you want to use in your PowerPoint presentation. Then burn it to an empty CD disk.
  • Open the disk with Windows Media Player, and rip music from the CD into a *.wma format. Right click on the track and choose to send to Windows Audio Converter. There you can choose the format as MP3 and save it to a folder.

Method 2 Convert iTunes to MP3 with Third-party Audio Converter

You can also use a third-party audio conversion tool to convert iTunes to MP3.
iTunes to MP3 Conversion software include: TUNEBITE Platinum, SoundTaxi Converter, 5star freeTunes, and AppleMacSoft DRM Converter for Mac
Choose one that fits to your system, and convert the iTunes M4P to PowerPoint-ready MP3.

Note: iTunes music files (M4P - "protected AAC") have DRM protection which prevent users from converting it to other formats or adding iTunes songs to PowerPoint presentation directly. To insert iTunes music to PowerPoint slide show as background music, you will need to remove DRM protection from iTunes Music and convert iTunes to MP3 for PowerPoint first.

Section 2 Import converted iTunes music to your PowerPoint presentation

Now, it's time to insert the iTunes MP3 sound to your PowerPoint presentation. Follow these steps:

  • a. Go to the slide where you want to add the iTunes MP3 sound. Select Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Sound from File to insert the sound file from your local drive. Click OK.
  • b. Then you will see a message pop up asking how you want the sound to start in slide shows. Click Automatically.

    For more about adding a MP3 file to PowerPoint, see in How to Set Background Music for PowerPoint

    To play the iTunes music across all the slides, explore in How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in PowerPoint

    To extract an iTunes MP3 sound from PowerPoint, take the audio video mix Moyea PPT to Video Converter

  • How to Add an iTunes Sound to PowerPoint Presentation

    Add music, add a mood to your PowerPoint presentation. You wanna use a song from iTunes store as background music of the PowerPoint file? Oops, there is a format problem. PowerPoint doesn't accept iTunes music, which is encoded in M4P. You need to make a format alternation before inserting the iTunes sound into your presentation.

    Here I will discuss in 2 sections how to convert iTunes music to a PowerPoint-supported audio format, and how to import the converted iTunes sound to PowerPoint 2003/2007.

    Section 1 Convert iTunes Music to PowerPoint compatible audio (e.g. MP3)

    Mentioning this issue, we should know which sound formats are compatible with PowerPoint.
    Audio file formats compatible with PowerPoint 2003/2007 include: AIFF, AU, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA
    Among the sound formats above, MP3 is the most familiar to us, with its small size and good sound quality. So to convert iTunes music to PowerPoint compatible format often means to realize the conversion from M4P to MP3.
    Generally, you can try these two ways to convert an iTunes track to MP3 audio format.

    Method 1 Burn and Rip the iTunes music to MP3 for PowerPoint

    • In the iTunes store, select the track that you want to use in your PowerPoint presentation. Then burn it to an empty CD disk.
    • Open the disk with Windows Media Player, and rip music from the CD into a *.wma format. Right click on the track and choose to send to Windows Audio Converter. There you can choose the format as MP3 and save it to a folder.

    Method 2 Convert iTunes to MP3 with Third-party Audio Converter

    You can also use a third-party audio conversion tool to convert iTunes to MP3.
    iTunes to MP3 Conversion software include: TUNEBITE Platinum, SoundTaxi Converter, 5star freeTunes, and AppleMacSoft DRM Converter for Mac
    Choose one that fits to your system, and convert the iTunes M4P to PowerPoint-ready MP3.

    Note: iTunes music files (M4P - "protected AAC") have DRM protection which prevent users from converting it to other formats or adding iTunes songs to PowerPoint presentation directly. To insert iTunes music to PowerPoint slide show as background music, you will need to remove DRM protection from iTunes Music and convert iTunes to MP3 for PowerPoint first.

    Section 2 Import converted iTunes music to your PowerPoint presentation

    Now, it's time to insert the iTunes MP3 sound to your PowerPoint presentation. Follow these steps:

  • a. Go to the slide where you want to add the iTunes MP3 sound. Select Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Sound from File to insert the sound file from your local drive. Click OK.
  • b. Then you will see a message pop up asking how you want the sound to start in slide shows. Click Automatically.

    For more about adding a MP3 file to PowerPoint, see in How to Set Background Music for PowerPoint

    To play the iTunes music across all the slides, explore in How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in PowerPoint

    To extract an iTunes MP3 sound from PowerPoint, take the audio video mix Moyea PPT to Video Converter

  • 8/21/2009

    Back to School Fun: Make Back-to-school DVD Movie with PowerPoint


    Half fun, half fear. That is always what your kids feel in the first week of school. Fun in meeting new friends, and fear of the summer gone-by yet of what's to come. As teachers and parents, you can plan a colorful series of back to school crafts and activities to shatter the fear and encourage your kids. You may throw a funny film shot at night of the first school day, but I assume it would be more interesting and inspiring to guide kids to DIY their own back-to-school DVD movies with PowerPoint. Since kids are curious to new things, a challenging movie creation may dig their inspiration of crafts, brush up their computer skills, drive out initial back-to-school fear, and rebuild confidence in them. So this new school year, teach your children to make an icebreaker back-to-school DVD movie with PowerPoint and make a shiny start.


    What You Will Need:




    • High-def Digital Photos High-def Digital Photos



    • MS PowerPoint MS PowerPoint on Your PC



    • Back to School Video/Audio Mood Music or Video Clips



    • blank DVD disc for back-to-school movie Quality Blank DVD Disk(s)



    • Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu



    • DVD player DVD Player or Projector


    What to Do:


    Generally, this back-to-school DVD movie requires 2 processes - One is to mould in PowerPoint, One is to burn to DVD disc.


    A. Mould back-to-school PowerPoint slideshow
    I recommend MS PowerPoint because it is easy to use for young kids. You don't need to be a genius to use and teach PowerPoint. Now the first step you are to take is to compose the shape of the back-to-school movie with PowerPoint. Have no idea of the "shape"? It indicates what kind of story you want to develop in the back-to-school movie. It can either be an immediate record of awesome activities on the first school day, or an exotic collection of each kid's photo memories of the past summer vacation.
    As to the movie story itself, you should associate it with your existing sources: the most basic factor digital photos, the effect accelerator mood music (also background music), or fitting video clips to give more of a touch. Be sure you have enough high-def photos in hand to support a back-to-school movie show (usu. 7-10 photos per minute).


    When all the materials for the digital project are ready, it's time to assemble them into PowerPoint. You can use Photo Album in PowerPoint 2003/2007 to add in and edit the photos in order, insert the ready video clip to an expected slide, title the scenes of your movie story, and give a music mood that hits the point.
    After edition, it comes to the second process:


    B. Burn back-to-school PowerPoint presentation to DVD disc


    A slideshow is not enough. Your back-to-school PowerPoint presentation can be playback on a DVD player or projector like a real TV show. All you need is to burn it to accessible DVD with such a cheap but effective app as Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu, an e-Learning program that can burn PowerPoint to SCORM compliant DVD and video at on go. Here is a simple guide of burning PowerPoint to DVD disc.


    a. Pop in a blank DVD disc to your PC if supportable. Otherwise, you will finally get DVD image files of the back-to-school movie that requires another burning app to burn to disc.
    b. Install and launch Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu. Then import the back-to-school PowerPoint file.
    c. Select the output to DVD (either Standard or High Definition). Personalize your back-to-school DVD movie with your individual logo. Also select a proper DVD theme from the Menu tab.
    d. Click Start to burn the back-to-school PowerPoint to DVD (disc).


    For illustrative details of burning a PowerPoint presentation to DVD, see in How to Burn PowerPoint to DVD


    OK. Your back-to-school DVD movie is ready on a disc. Connect it to a DVD player hooked to a large-screen TV, or to your school computer with a projector. Turn the icebreaker movie on, sit back with your kids, and enjoy the fun school day project!


    You may also need these how-tos:


    How to Set Background Music in PowerPoint?
    How to Insert a Video into a PowerPoint File?

    8/19/2009

    Say Hello to New Classmates with A Self-introduction Video Slideshow


    Simple self-introduction video slideshow - A stylish way to show the truest of yourself to your new pals at this back to school season


    The new school year comes with the end of this wild summer 2009. Now you are heading back to school, entering into a higher grade, and will meet new faces in class, often say "Hello" to each other in the first class, by a string of self-introductions. It's perfect that you are born an eloquent presenter. But if you happen to be a slow speaker liable to a tongue-tie before public, you need to take efforts preparing your self-introduction in advance. A pretty cool option for you shy students, particularly to you computer geeks, is to employ a compelling video slideshow to outstand yourselves in front of the new class.


    What can a smart video slideshow bring?


    A well-structured video slideshow can not only wow your audience, but also bring you sheer joy of creation. When you say Hello to your new classmates by a live video show with a laptop, or an iPhone projected to a white wall, they would have a deeper impression of you. If you publish the video slideshow to YouTube or Facebook, later the new pals coming to it would remind you of your special performance on the first day of the new semester.



    As to self-improvement, you can get a closer look of yourself from your DIY profile, as well as exercise computer skills at making video slideshow. Because you can't convince the audience unless you know yourself and express yourself properly.

    How to make a video slideshow of self-introduction?


    It's less than a cinch to create your self-introduction video. Here I would love to suggest two methods, one for PowerPoint users, and one for students without PowerPoint on their PCs.


    Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu 1. Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu If you are using MS PowerPoint, you can compose your self-introduction slideshow there. Then use Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu, an all-inclusive PowerPoint-to-video conversion program, to convert the existing PPT presentation to video, as video makes more sense beyond a desktop, extending your profile to the live Web, a Blackberry, an iPod, an iPhone, and more. As to the content, you can include your name, age, address, likes, dislikes, hobbies, strength, etc., illustrated by animations, graphics, flash, movie clips, and backed up with a lengthy piece of light music or your very voice narration. If necessary, get some beautiful back-to-school PowerPoint backgrounds at Free Back to School PowerPoint Backgrounds


    For free PowerPoint templates, click here

    Done your self-introduction in PowerPoint, now you can assign the conversion task to Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu. All in 3 simple steps:
    a) Install the e-Learning app, launch it, and import the presentation of your self-introduction.
    b) Select an output video format, most popular as AVI, MP4 and WMV. Customize the video profile options as you specialize.
    c) Click "Start" to convert to video.


    Once the video slideshow comes out, hook it to from your local drive to an iPod or Blackberry, upload it to a video hosting site like YouTube, publish at popular Facebook, embed to your personal blog, and invite your new pals to visit. Alternatively, save it to a CD or USB flash drive, and take to school for a live delivery to those fresh faces.


    Windows Movie Maker 2. Windows Movie Maker
    Not a PowerPoint user? You can still make a self-introduction video since there is a helpful friend - free Windows Movie Maker. Import and assemble the sources (usu. video clips of your typical moments, pictures of your favorite sports, stars, food…) of your self-introduction into Windows Movie Maker. Edit all the elements into a story video with a beginning, middle and end. Use titles, transitions, sounds to make the "TV-style" video enjoyable.


    When your self-introduction video slideshow is ready, you can do as described in the first method to share with your new classmates. Enjoy video inspiration, enjoy new school year!


    8/18/2009

    Web 2.0 with Your Class: 7 Amazing Back-to-school Presentation Tools


    For a classroom lesson, especially a class that will matter, today's school staff would prefer a dynamic slideshow (remaining original in PowerPoint or reformed in SCORM-compliant video, DVD, Flash) to a chalk-and-blackboard interpretation. There is no doubt that current education is jumping on the train of Web 2.0, typically represented by the integration of digital technology into classroom and the emergence of social networking sites like Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This post covers 7 amazing picks of presentation software or solutions for eager teachers and students who want more broadcasting of a back-to-school masterpiece.



    Your First-choice Back-to-school Presentation Tools & Applications


    1. MS PowerPoint MS PowerPoint: The most prevalent presentation-authoring tool developed by Microsoft, great for educators and students to vivify a plain lecture text with lively animations, graphics, music, or even movie clips.


    2. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu: An e-Learning program to burn PowerPoint courseware to DVD and convert it to video for cross-platform access on a TV with DVD player and a different computer. From home to school, from desktop to the Web, the presentation tool enables teachers and students to manage their course content on a protective DVD disc and in web-ready video, without bothering to any PowerPoint corruption on a destination device.
    Hot Features: Batch process of 12 PowerPoint files. Relieve users from distribution defect of a big PowerPoint file. Retain everything original from PowerPoint to the output DVD. No loss of animations, wipes, sounds or video clips. Watermark to personalize a DVD/video slideshow.


    3. Moyea PowerPoint to Video Converter Edu Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu: Green video course creator that makes SCORM compliant video from an e-Learning PowerPoint presentation. Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu let users expand a course presentation beyond a desktop, but to a video-compliant portable like iPod and iPhone, to a video-hosting site like YouTube and TeacherTube. Great for remote online learning.
    Hot Features: Batch conversion of 12 PPT files. Keep complete of a PowerPoint presentation including animations, transitions, music and movie clips to a quality video. Create 12+ video formats from PowerPoint, e.g. ASF, AVI, MOV, FLV, MP4, VOB…


    4. Zoho Show 2.0 Zoho Show: An ONLINE presentation tool that allows you to create a new presentation from scratch using its pre-built themes, as well as to import an existing presentation from both MS PowerPoint (PPT, PPS)and OpenOffice (ODP, SXI). Users can edit, publish, and show their presentations online and export as PPT, PPS, HTML, ODP and PDF.
    Hot Features: Free for individual users. Create a presentation full of text, images, shapes, lists, and pre-built content templates
    Drawbacks: Limit to PowerPoint file size - no more than 10 MB. Miss on original effects from an existing presentation.


    5. Slideshare SlideShare: The largest website of slideshows, similar to YouTube in the video field. Support presentations of all types: MS PowerPoint, OpenOffice and Apple Keynote. Good for students and educators who want to archive presentations online for sharing and receiving feedbacks.
    Hot Features: Free. Bulk upload of presentations. 100MB capacity. Invite friends and colleagues to visit your slideshow via email.
    Drawbacks: Miss on all dynamic elements in PowerPoint, like sounds and effects.


    6. Empressr Empressr: An Ajax and Flash-based service to make and share presentations online. Allows you to save each slide as single image and to make an imported presentation editable.
    Hot Feature: Uses Flash and Ajax rather than HTML and Ajax to add more media than other tools including audio and video.
    Drawback: Complete loss of original effects in a input presentation.


    7. ThinkFree Show ThinkFree Show: A Java-based presentation application similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. ThinkFree Show offers an ease to create rich presentations and play them through the online editor or by graphic. You can also save your presentations for viewing in Microsoft PowerPoint and share them with others online.
    Hot Feature: Can convert PPT to PDF, text and image.
    Drawback: Cannot convert properly of a PPT file more than 5MB.


    Cheap and fast-to-create, these e-Learning presentation tools have been encouraging staff and faculty nowadays to take more advantage of Web 2.0 technology. Just boost your new school year with a proper tech tool of the above!


    8/09/2009

    Make Back-to-school Lesson Plan in PowerPoint, Video and DVD


    Script out your PowerPoint lesson plans from the day one back to school yet? Kids are going back to school, and as a teacher, you face the hot potato of ice-break, confidence-rebuild task, always beginning with a cheerful lesson plan. And most of you teaching peers tool the first back-to-school lesson plan with the smart MS PowerPoint. Sometimes, these back-to-school lesson plans are transformed from PowerPoint to video or DVD video that is cooler and that can span from across the Internet to a home TV. Can't believe it? That's absolutely true, and quite simple if you take a screen-capture program like Camtasia or a PowerPoint to DVD and video converter like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.


    Nevertheless, you should brick up your back-to-school lesson plan first - to define what you want to teach, to develop clear and specific objectives, to write an Anticipatory Set and step-by-step procedures to reach the objectives, to include a closure for the lesson plan, and to figure out your assessment/evaluation. Only then, can it be the best time to beautify it with PowerPoint and finalize it in sleek video or DVD. If you have no idea of how to begin, these sites with back to school lesson plans may give you a glimmer:



      NCSL offers a systemic back-to-school program with lesson plans ranging from high school, middle school and elementary school. You can download a proper one for classroom use.


      The Lesson Plans Page hosts a colorful collection of back to school lesson plans for kids. Discover one that comes to your taste, and also submit your fabulous lesson plan to the learning community.


      A to Z Teacher Stuff provides you an abundant directory of lesson plans and teaching resources, containing from back-to-school themes and thematic units, literature & book activities, to math, science, learning centers, social studies, computers, reading, writing, P.E./health, cooperative learning.


      Scholastic sets back-to-school lesson plans that you can grasp at a glance by well-organized categories, either from pre-school to grade 12, or from math to science.


      Teaching with Historic Places lets you celebrate the first days of new school year with lesson plans that consider important aspects of the history of education and educational facilities. Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, the lessons are free and ready for immediate classroom use by students in history and social studies classes.


      To deliver the back to school lesson plan via a sheer paper or an audiovisual presentation, it depends on your existing classroom facilities. Personally, I prefer the audiovisual teaching method - whether in original PowerPoint or processed DVD or video. If a picture is worth a thousand of words, an animated video, especially a movie-feel DVD must be worth ten thousands. Give a try to such a dynamic practice of lesson plan to gear your resistant kids back to school. Here I would like to add a word on how to turning your lesson plan presentation to video or DVD with Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.


      It is a 3-click task.



      • 1. Install and launch the .exe file of Moyea PPT to DVD Burner. 2. Import your PowerPoint presentation of back to school lesson plan, select an output option, either DVD (you can choose Standard or High Definition) or video (about 12 popular video format in total), set the output details in Advanced Settings and indentify with a logo if necessary. 3. Click the Start button, under the Burn tab, to start converting your lesson plan PPT file to video or DVD.


      Note: The PowerPoint to DVD and video conversion program has a built-in burning engine that can burn your presentation to a blank DVD.


      Then, at the first day of the new school year, you can show the students your spectacular lesson plan slideshow with a projected laptop or even a DVD player attached to a big-screen TV. It is also a good idea to leave a moment for independent practice during the lesson plan slideshow.


      See Also


      Free Education PowerPoint Templates

    8/03/2009

    How to Make New-school-year Class List in PowerPoint DVD and Video


    Start the new school year off with a dynamic DVD and video class list made in PowerPoint. Why choose PowerPoint to make the class list? Why convert the class list in PowerPoint to DVD and video? What should the class list include?


    As the new school year comes this August, teachers must begin concerning a list of back-to-school supplies to engage students back from holiday to class. It is a big challenge for each teacher trying to reconnect students who may be sad and scared after a summer of travel excitement and home relax. Yet as well begun is half done, a well-organized class list is essential for an upcoming harvest school year.


    So what can you use to make the class list? A piece of plain paper? That's what teachers in your Grandma's age always did! In this era of digital mode, you'd turn on something audiovisual in your new-school-year class list. A bit confused with the concept "audiovisual"? Well, I mean you can take a combined advantage of these educational software programs: MS PowerPoint (for composing a dynamic class list with attractive look), Moyea PPT to DVD Burner (for distributing and saving the PowerPoint class list in read-only DVD and video).


    Why choose PowerPoint to make the class list?


    On the one hand, PowerPoint has the power to attract your students, while a traditional piece of paper in white and black seems too boring to invoke the loose minds. A picture is worth a thousand of words, not to mention a moving flow of pictures with sounds! Such is PowerPoint. On the other hand, PowerPoint is energy-economic and environment- friendly compared with a traditional paper made of wood. The paperless PowerPoint adds to your class list a sense of green. Apart from those, families these days tend to read on a computer or receive from a TV rather than browse at a single paper note that may fade and that takes home space.


    Why convert the class list in PowerPoint to DVD and video?


    MS PowerPoint does aid you in making an eye-catching class list. However, it is deficient when coming to distribution of your class list animated with effects and embedded with a sound track. When you upload the class list presentation direct to Internet, you may suffer a full loss of dynamic components; and when you email it to a parent using a different operating system, he/she may fail to open your class list. To span the scope of your PowerPoint class list, you can turn it to universal DVD or video format using the professional program Moyea PPT to DVD Burner. Finalize it onto a portable and protective DVD that can be playback on a home TV connected to a DVD player, or convert it into a seamless video that can be shared on the Web (YouTube, TeacherTube, blog, podcast, etc.) and viewed with a mobile like iPod, iPhone and Blackberry. Click here to get a browse on how to convert PowerPoint to DVD and video.


    Once shaped in DVD and video, the new-school-year class list becomes easy to reach a student or parent with a DVD player, to publish on your webpage and to email to your students inviting them or their parents to participate. That is teaching with technology. Now you must get an idea of the reason to choose education software tools PowerPoint and Moyea PPT to DVD Burner. It's time to turn back to the class list itself, another crucial part of this essay. You may wonder


    What should the class list include?


    Your class list is for getting close to each student and his/her family within the minimum time. The content of the PowerPoint class list depends on who the target audience is.

    If you are to teach a new class and want to keep a student track of your own, you can include the following items in the class list:



    • Each student's profile with photos

    • Each student's home/email address and parent name(s)


    To keep track of students in your class, you can use make a class list recording each student's profile, parent name(s) and home address, or even email address. Also, remember to label them with different symbols for reorganization. This will help your match students' faces with their names at the first days of the new school year.


    If you expect the assistance from parents of your students in carrying out a new-school year plan, involve these items in the class list:



    • Expectations for the new school year

    • Class policies and regulations

    • Back-to-school supplies

    • Dates of upcoming events and activities


    It is necessary to set up your expectations, class policies, back-to-school supply list and opening events at the beginning of the new school year, a vital time to get to know your students, help them out of holiday hangover, and quickly acclimate to the new environment with group activities.


    At last, I would like to sum the essay up with three phrases - conceive your class list in your brain, compose it with MS PowerPoint, and convert to DVD and video for easy distribution. Just do utmost to guide your students go through a transition shock from wild summer leisure to regular school life.


    7/30/2009

    Birthday Song or Birthday Music for Your Birthday DVD/Video Slideshow


    A Birthday slideshow video or DVD is not a silent bliss. It sounds, vibrates with polished music. In my previous post, I have discussed how to make a Birthday slideshow DVD/video; now I would love to add a set of Birthday songs and music to give a dynamic touch.


    Birthday Songs or Music for Your Birthday DVD/Video Slideshow


    Explore a nice song for your DVD/video Birthday slideshow!

















































































































































































    Birthday Song NameSinger
    Because You Loved MeCeline Dion
    Celebrate Good TimesCool and The Gang
    Let Them Be LittleBilly Dean
    Somewhere Over the RainbowIsrael Kamakawiwo'ole
    This One's For the GirlsMartina McBride
    A Bushel and A PeckPrince Faith
    Ain't No Mountain High EnoughAretha Franklin
    Beautiful BoyCeline Dion
    Brown-Eyed GirlVan Morrison
    Celebrate Good TimesCool and The Gang
    Dream a Little Dream of MeLouis Armstrong
    Girls Just Wanna Have FunCyndi Lauper
    Happy Birthday, Darlin'Conway Twitty
    Happy Birthday To YouFrank Sinatra
    Keeper of the StarsTracy Byrd
    Happy GirlMartina McBride
    Happy, Happy Birthday BabyRonnie Milsap
    If I CouldCeline Dion
    Isn't She LovelyStevie Wonder
    It's Your SongGarth Brooks
    Miss IndependentKelly Clarkson
    My GirlThe Temptations
    Oh, Pretty WomanRoy Orbison
    PhotographNickelback
    She (Notting Hill Soundtrack)Elvis Costello
    She's a LadyTom Jones
    She's Got a WayBilly Joel
    She's Not Just a Pretty FaceShania Twain
    Thanks for the MemoriesFrank Sinatra
    The Best is Yet to ComeFrank Sinatra
    The Happiest Girl In The Whole USADonna Fargo
    These Are The DaysNatalie Merchant
    This is the TimeBilly Joel
    Three Times a LadyThe Commodores
    Too Marvelous for WordsFrank Sinatra
    UnforgettableNat King Cole
    We Are FamilySister Sledge
    What a Beautiful DayChris Cagle
    Wild OneFaith Hill
    You are So BeautifulEngelbert Humperdinck
    You Are So BeautifulJoe Cocker
    You're Nobody (till somebody loves you)Dean Martin

    PowerPoint 2010 Preview - What is New in PowerPoint 2010


    This July is a bit different for PowerPoint fans. Microsoft debuted a technical preview of its upcoming PowerPoint 2010 with a host of new features earlier this month.


    Video Technical Preview of PowerPoint 2010: