How to Create Killer Multimedia Content with Quick and Easy Tools

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PowerPoint as a Useful Teaching Tool, Not a Boring Presentation Tool

As
a reintroduction to the familiar snooze-inducing PowerPoint, this
series will take a new look at the tool, and demonstrate some ways to
turn this often misused program into a useful tool for teaching.

• PowerPoint Tutorial 1: Reintroduction – Video (2:56)
• PowerPoint Tutorial 2: Interaction with Other Programs – Video (5:16)
• PowerPoint Tutorial 3: Beyond Bullet Points – Video (9:55)
• PowerPoint Tutorial 4: Colors – Video (8:53)
• PowerPoint Tutorial 5: Clip Art – Video (6:19)
• PowerPoint Tutorial 6: Using Photos – Video (8:35)
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  Audio Transcripts
• PowerPoint as a Useful Teaching Tool, Not a Boring Presentation Tool – Transcripts – PDF
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  Other Resources
  • Beyond Bullet Points Template – PDF
  • Teaching Sells Example Template – PDF
  • Resources at Sociable Media
  • How to Send Word Outline to PowerPoint in Office 2007
  • ColorBlender
  • pptXTREME Color Picker
  • Articulate Rapid E-Learning Blog
  • BigStockPhoto
  • iStockphoto
  • Stock.XCHNG
  • Presentation Zen: From Golden Mean to “Rule of Thirds”
  • Presentation Zen: The power of the visual: Learning from Down Under promotion videos
  • Solving the PowerPoint Predicament Book
  • Presentation Zen Book

3	Creating and Editing Audio Files with Audacity You have a lot of options when it comes to audio editing tools. Some free, some cheap, and some high-end and expensive. But for ease of use, just the right amount of options, and excellent quality for the low price of free, Audacity can’t be beat. Audacity Tutorial 1: Download and Initial Setup – Video (3:42) Audacity Tutorial 2: Basic Recording and Editing – Video (7:13) Audacity Tutorial 3: Advanced Editing – Video (9:01) Audio Transcripts Creating and Editing Audio Files with Audacity – Transcripts – PDF Other Resources Audacity Website Audacity Reference
4	Creating Compelling Learning Interactions With Articulate Engage In this series of videos, we’re going to cover Articulate Engage – a quick and easy tool that lets you create interactive elements to include in your courses, presentations, and training programs. Engage Tutorial 1: Getting Started – Video (2:46) Engage Tutorial 2: Working with Interactions – Video (4:44) Engage Tutorial 3: Exploring the Interactions – Video (9:55) Engage Tutorial 4: Adding Audio and Publishing – Video (5:51) Engage Tutorial 5: Custom Color Schemes – Video (6:06) Audio Transcripts Creating Compelling Learning Interactions With Articulate Engage – Transcripts – PDF Other Resources Engage Demos Dave Mozealous: Creating Custom Engage Color Schemes Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List

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An Overview of the KoolMoves Animation Tool

KoolMoves
provides the ability to produce Flash animation without the cost or
complexity of the Adobe Flash development tool. This overview touches
on some of the features and shows how it can be used by both novices,
and those experienced with animation.

• KoolMoves Overview: What It Can Do – Video (6:35)
• Audio Transcripts
• An Overview of the KoolMoves Animation Tool – Transcripts – PDF
• Other Resources
  • KoolMoves Home
  • Tutorials, Examples, and Resources
  • FlaskKit Forum for KoolMoves

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Additional Tools Used in this Course

In this and the Building Membership Sites
course, we used some additional free tools seen in the videos for
editing, organizing, and cleaning up files. This is a list of some of
those additional tools.

HTML-Kit – Full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files.

FileZilla – A free, fast, and reliable open source, cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

Sizer – A freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size.

The Levelator – Software that adjusts the audio levels within your audio file for variations from one speaker to the next.