A few months back I ran a training session for some primary school teachers, on how to use PowerPoint within primary education, and they were very impressed with most of the ideas and techniques that I worked through with them, but the one that captured the imagination of even the slightly IT wary teacher was showing how we can quickly bring lots of photos from a camera into a PowerPoint presentation.
This is a very simple technique, but one that many people haven’t discovered yet.
A video showing how to do this, and how to compress the images in one go can be found here
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Thanks for this Dave. I didn’t know how to do this in Powerpoint, I would usually do it in Keynote on the Mac and then export to Powerpoint which was a long winded way of doing it and unsuitable process for most (or virtually all) staff.
Useful compression info too.
James
It is a very simple pair of skills that most people don’t know about, I think I discovered it by accident a few years ago.
Like all your postings, this one is practical, easy to follow and instantly relevant to some very common problems – excellent.
I’ve been using your editable text boxes in making up some interesting PP-based webquests. Given that learners can enter their answers on the slides the presentation becomes a really neat way to present the learning module with video clips, weblinks, etc but with the completed text boxes it also becomes a record of the learners’ work too. Thanks for sharing your excellent ideas with us!
Bob
Glad you like it, and glad you like the editable text boxes. Another very simple technique that is very useful
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