CBT And Training Solutions Come Alive With The Combination Of PowerPoint And AlterEgos
Having a virtual animated avatar or virtual tutor within your CBT, training or presentation media is a well proven means of dramatically increasing information retention, effectiveness and impact. However being comfortable incorporating our own likeness is something we normally steer away from. There is a great product partnership however that makes this process accessible, simple and highly compelling; PowerPoint and AlterEgos a revolutionary desktop avatar production system from AlteEgos.com.
Importing external media is common place in any media solutions and PowerPoint also offers a flexible approach to this function. AlterEgos provides the virtual representative in numerous video formats, a perfect synergy.
AlterEgos takes virtual tutors to a new level and compliments PowerPoint perfectly. With simplicity you get effective impact that will allow your productions to stand out.
AlterEgos allows you to use either your own or an imported voice for the narration, it even has a Text to speech interface to make life even easier. With 53 virtual characters available directly in the software and hundreds of tailoring items including backgrounds and clothing, it's a simple process to create a highly compelling automated lip-syncing animated character. AlterEgos also supports various composition outputs including Flash and AVI so integration is a snip!
In five minutes using the wizard driven interface your AlterEgos virtual teacher is sitting on your desk ready to import directly into PowerPoint, a simple and effective workflow.
Importing into PowerPoint is done with just a few clicks. The process couldn't be more simple.
Your final composition has the ultimate in flexibility, deploy directly to the web, CD, DVD or internal server based. Everything is industry standard formats from start to finish.
AlterEgos and PowerPoint offers you a perfect partnership. With ease of use, industry standard compliance and simple workflow, professional impact and effectiveness is available to all.
For the ultimate in customisation AlterEgos.com will even create you your very own AlterEgos for a small fee. If could even be a virtual "you", full circle, it's a funny old world.
There are many shapes and sizes within the Virtual Character and Avatars market so check out all of the competition that work with PowerPoint, their options and costs. You can download a free trial of AlterEgos here AlterEgos Free Edition
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PowerPoint for Educators: How to Make Multiple-choice Quizzes with PowerPoint via VBA
PowerPoint is a multimedia courseware to create multimedia courses to enhance the classroom experience. Also, it is a great assessment tool to create quizzes. The VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) feature in PowerPoint gives educators an accessible way to easily create interactive multimedia quizzes. Here I will teach you how to create multiple-choice quizzes with VBA in PowerPoint with step-by-step illustrations.
Supposing you want to create a quiz with 10 multiple-choice questions and only one correct answer for each question. Take PowerPoint 2007 for example, here are the details.
Step 1 - New a blank presentation
Step 2 - Customize feedback to each question with macroYou may be confused with the first step because the first step in all of the related quiz tutorials online is creating questions and answers. In order to simplify the steps to create multiple-choice quizzes, in this tutorial, I bring forward the feedback customization.1. Set security optionsBefore you can run VBA code, you need to set PowerPoint's security options to permit macros to run. Click the Office button -> PowerPoint options.On the left of the PowerPoint Options dialog box, Click Trust Center, then click Trust Center Settings on right.
Click Macro Settings on the left of the dialog then choose Disable all macros with notification.
2. Start the VBA Editor.Please press Alt+F11 to start the VBA Editor.
3. Customize feedback to wrong answer and right answersIn the VBA editor, Choose Insert -> Module, and then insert a code module for feedback to wrong&right answers.Customize feedback to wrong answers:In the big blank space on the right, type the following 3 lines:Sub Wrong()MsgBox ("Sorry, that's not right. Please try again.")End SubCustomize feedback to right answers:Sub Right()MsgBox ("That's right! You are so smart!")SlideShowWindows(1).View.NextEnd SubThis code for right answer is similar to the wrong answer, except for its "SlideShowWindows" line, which advances the quiz-taker to the next slide.
4. Return to PowerPoint from the VBA EditorPlease press Alt+F11 to return to PowerPoint. Leave the Visual Basic Editor open in the background. In PowerPoint, save the presentation, this will save the new macros as well.
Step 3 - Create questions and answers1. Create question slidesWithin PowerPoint, start a new slide using the Title Only slide layout. Type the first question in the title-text placeholder.
2. Add multiple-choice answersFrom the Insert menu, click Autoshapes -> Action Buttons. Then choose the blank action button. Resize and position the button on the slide. Right click on the button, choose Add Text from the subsequent menu, and type the first answer. Now select the button, copy and paste the button for the remaining answers you'll need on the slide.
3. Add macro to answersRight click on the button, select Hyperlink. The Action Settings dialog box will appear. Choose the Mouse Click tab, and from the "Action on click" area, check the "Run macro" radio button and select "Wrong" macro from the drop-down list. Click OK. Repeat the same setting to other remaining answers.
4. Duplicate the slide to as many as 10 slides.Duplicate the slide and substituent the questions and answers to other questions.Repeat this step 3 to the right answers for each question, and select "Right" macro from the drop-down list.
Step 4 - Save the quiz presentationPress F5 to preview the quiz presentation and save it to PPSX format. Now everything is ok, you create a quiz PowerPoint slideshow successfully.
Besides creating quiz with VBZ via PowerPoint, you also can make more interactive Flash quiz for your PowerPoint presentation with 3rd party Flah quiz maker that can generate stand-alone Flash quiz. Wondershare Quiz Creator is such a Flash quiz maker to help educators create multimedia Flash quizzes for teaching.
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Use PowerPoint to Spice up Your New Product Launch in Summer
Summer is here and it's hot! Some trades are in their shopping season, such as home appliances (air-condition, fanner, refrigerator and so on), clothes, sandals, foods and drinks. New products are on sale, coming with large-scale promotion and good price. It is well-known that an absorbing presentation is important for showing your new product optimally and giving a deep first impression to customers. Under such an economic circumstance, most business people focus on how to make appealing presentations in most cost-effective way. Using PowerPoint to make new product presentation is a wise choice.
First of all, we should figure out what benefits PowerPoint can bring to us.
1. As a part of the Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint has become the most widely used presentation program. For new product presentation, we can easily present the features of product by texts, graphics, animations, and other multi-media elements in the form of a slide show.
2. With the development of information technology, PowerPoint presentation has become a popular format for presenting products, and also is a special effective promotion for new product launch.
3. There is little restriction for spreading your promotions of product presentation. You can show your product presentation in shopping festival or trade fair with computer and projector, on Internet and so on.
4. Compared to the traditional ways of making advertising for your new products, making product presentation by yourself can really help you save a lot.
Secondly we should pay attention to the features of the successful new product presentation. There are many tutorials and tips on how to make an effective sales presentation or product presentation in books and on the Internet, business people should follow the guidance according to their needs.
There are main points of the features of effective presentation for new product launch.
Tip1. Make the presentation simple and outstanding.
Choose only the top points about your topic and make them consistently throughout the presentation. Do not use fancy fonts and keep simple and comfortable style for audience. Choose the right template and pictures that are appropriate for the content and your products.
Tip2. Be animated.
Add animation, audio or video to the product presentation. PowerPoint 2007 allows you to spice up your presentation with these multi-media elements. But remember, do not use too many of them!
Tip3. Create a connection between your product and the prospect.
Prepare some samples of the products and give them to your audience when you make speech with product presentation. Let your prospects watch and try the new features of products by themselves-instead of you telling them monotonously.
Here I only list three main points about making product presentation, they are more than that on Internet, and you’d better view them yourself.
A well-designed product presentation is just the first step of making advertisement for the product launch. Presenting it in various ways to spread the promotion is the final purposes. What business people want is to take full use of your product presentation in the most cost-effective way to attract more potential users, let them buy the new product, and finally enlarge the sales volume.
If you are skilled in PowerPoint, you know it’s often not very convenient to show your PowerPoint Presentations.
1. We all know that PowerPoint presentation can only be played on computer with a right version of MS PowerPoint installed; if the operating system in your customers' computer is different from yours, for example yours is Windows while the customers'are Mac or Linux, the presentation cannot be played.
2. You cannot show your PowerPoint presentation directly on Internet, PowerPoint cannot be embedded in web site. If you upload the product presentation on the company's official web site, there just a link and icon of PowerPoint, the customers have to download and save this big-size presentation on their computers.
3. PowerPoint cannot be protected well during the promotion. Everyone can edit the presentation easily, including the original maker with an incautious mouse hitting .The inserted elements such music, introduction video of the new product or animations, cannot be saved completely when sending the presentation to the prospects.
Therefore, I will suggest a most effective way to help you with presenting new product presentation.
Converting PowerPoint presentation to Flash, then you can view the converted Flash presentation without any trouble, show your new product presentation online and offline, and let people see your promotion on their computers.
Why should we do this? Because Flash can give us these benefits:
1. Making the presentation easy for your customers to view.
That's because over 98% of computers already have the Flash player installed. There is a version of the Flash player for virtually every operating system and many other devices such as PDAs and cell phones. There is also a version of the Flash player for virtually every Internet browser. Your audience won't have to install any software to view your presentation.
2. The best way to show your presentation on the Internet.
Flash video and animation is widely used on Internet. Many web sites show Flash presentation for advertising their company and products. Because the small size and high definition, many video Webs like supporting Flash videos. Flash output streams on the Internet so viewers can start to watch your presentations immediately without waiting for a download. You can upload Flash presentation to the company web site, official blog and professional B2B web site.
3. Making your presentations more secure.
Flash can only be played and cannot be edited by others (including your competitors) which make your files more secure. Flash can maintain all editing elements and inserting files of the presentation, you can show the complete well-designed product presentation to the prospects via E-mail, let them get the information of the new product and your promotion ideas as soon as possible.
How to convert PowerPoint Presentation to Flash? PowerPoint converter can help you. I would like to recommend Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional. This tool makes it easy for anyone to create professional Flash presentations with a few clicks.
Click here to see a detailed tutorial of converting PowerPoint to Flash.
With this tool, you can make a Flash presentation in a few clicks, keeping the exact timings, transitions, sound and movies embedded, all in sync with the presentation; you add multi-media elements to your presentation, maintain all original editing and inserting elements, and show your presentation without any trouble. These features liven up your presentation and guide your clients more effectively.
Anyway, making a great presentation for your new product launch can let you make full preparation for new product launch; taking full use of the cost-effective tools to expose the new product launch can spicing up the promotion.
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