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:

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

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Free Christmas PowerPoint Backgrounds Blue, White, Red

Extra DVD Slideshow Makes Exclusive Office Christmas Party

A company annual album of thanks, made in PowerPoint, burnt to portable DVD, accompanied to your Christmas office party on a big TV, lightens up the staff with the best memories of the past working year as well as the fresh hope into the future.

Christmas party is a must to hold for any company. A company party at grand Christmas, saying thanks to your hardworking staff, sharing delicious food and activities, and encouraging higher team spirit in the coming New Year, is but a wise way to knot every part of the company with further communication. Casual as it is, your corporate Christmas party, traditionally filled with festive food, drink and music, can be integrated with a not so casual PowerPoint DVD presentation/album - a digital slideshow of reflection and reconciliation for the company in the past year. As a boss or manager, you are not to make a party merely to please the employees. You should make a corporate presentation to pilot them to your company culture, the core power that combines everyone in the company. Meanwhile, diligent employees want to hear your comments on the annual operation of the company, as well as compliments on their work performance, which requires you an extra presentation to explain. A compelling PowerPoint presentation, burned in DVD and played at the beginning of the party, will effectively enhance your office gathering at Christmas. With Moyea PowerPoint to DVD Burner, you can easily make a DVD slideshow for your company Christmas Party. The next question is,

How to Make a DVD Slideshow for Your Office Christmas Party?

In a nutshell, it is how to make a PowerPoint presentation on company celebration and convert it to DVD for TV playback. You may be PowerPoint savvy to make that. Even if you have never made such a DVD slideshow for Christmas party before, you can get started quickly with these tips - 2 on PowerPoint authoring and 2 on DVD producing.

For Christmas PowerPoint presentation

It goes with the same as any other presentation creation. You create different styles of slides, choose a PowerPoint template, insert pictures, enter text, adjust transitions, arrange all the elements according to rehearsal, and etc. In addition, you can pay an extra attention to the following 2 tips:

Tip 1 Combine Christmas symbols with your company.

It is a Christmas party, and your company's! It is necessary to weave the two into each other. For example, you can make a unique "Christmas tree" writing on each light a name and an avatar of a colleague, an Honor Tree stringing the company's top contributors, or a Christmas Wish Tree for every department of your company. Activate the Christmas tree with funny animations, wipes in PowerPoint. You staff will be glad to watch a DVD slideshow with their act. Just free your imagination for it!

Tip 2 Add in mood music, flash or movie montage.

You don't want the Christmas DVD a silent show? Then consider some dynamic ingredients - merry Christmas music, crisp flash or movie montage of the company. If you have a confident voice, record your own narration for the party slideshow. For details of adding the media elements, see in how to insert a sound to PowerPoint, how to add a SWF file to PowerPoint and how to insert a movie to PowerPoint

For Converting Xmas PowerPoint to DVD

With Moyea PPT to DVD Converter, it becomes a one-go job to create a polish Xmas party DVD from your company PowerPoint. Refer to related tutorial on how to burn your Christmas PowerPoint onto a DVD. When using in the program, before a click on Start, you can also make advanced settings for your party DVD slideshow. Here are another 2 tips.

Tip 3 Logo the DVD slideshow with your company trademark

Take full use of the Logo feature in the converter. Add in your company trademark, adjust it to a corner, and apply it to all slides. A subtle logo is excellent to indicate the copyright of your party DVD and brand you company.

Tip 4 Frame the party DVD with Xmas-themed menu

Also, never forget to single out a Christmas menu for your party DVD. In the PPT to DVD burner, under the Menu tab, from the Holiday theme, choose a Christmas template as outskirt of your party DVD slideshow. Later, you and your party staff can watch the Office Christmas DVD via a remote control. Not only does PowerPoint bring ease to your office business, but also it adds extra fun to your Christmas party with the help of PPT to DVD technology. Take Christmas party as a big chance to get closer to your staff, and give them a unique Christmas gift - a stunning DVD slideshow of your company!

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Convert Christmas PowerPoint Presentation to Video for Sharing on Web

Teach Kids Christmas Symbols with PowerPoint

Kids get thrilled with the coming December 25. It's big Christmas! Santa Clause, advent wreath, magic chimney, decorated trees, jingle bells, and inviting gifts from a long stocking that appeals! Children love all things Christmas.

But how much do they know about Christmas and its history? At the festive time, some curious kids may ask, "Mom, where is Santa Claus from?", or "Dad, who is Mary?" Intelligent parents are always there to answer such questions. Highly responsible dads and moms, however, would also plan a lesson on Christmas symbols in paper or PowerPoint as well as gift shopping for the kids, to teach them to remember - remember the glorious holiday of Christmas. After all, it is not wise that your kids art enjoying the Christmas holiday without a sense of its origin.

The Benefits

For kids living in an era of media technology, it seems to be sensible to take PowerPoint to teach them. PowerPoint allows you to add in many colorful and dynamic elements like pictures, animations, sounds and video clips to support your Christmas story.

Compared with plain text or oral narration, the audio-visual teaching method is more effective in conveying the full message to young kids. That is because on the one hand, text or oral teaching alone cannot express exactly what a Christmas symbol means, while text with illustration and sound can quickly cast a vivid image structure of the symbol in kids' mind. On the other hand, curious children would not stand a minute for a dull lesson with text only, but they can be engaged in your story provided the text being accompanied by color and dynamic, which can be easily done with PowerPoint.

The Tracks

Now you are aware of the benefits of PowerPoint teaching, you must wonder, "How to make such a course presentation on Christmas symbols? Are there any tips I can follow for the course creation?" Generally, there is no set rule for making a course presentation since every instructor has his own style that makes a difference. If you are green to PowerPoint, read on these presentation tips for a minute, shown as below:

Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation
5 Tips for Making Right PowerPoint Fonts
3 Don'ts with PowerPoint
How to create an effective presentation

Personally, I love to share with you a step-by-step approach to making a Christmas Symbol presentation.

1. Set up the layout
Create a PowerPoint presentation and rename it as you like, e.g. "Christmas Symbols". Specify the title slide and the content ones. Pick up a Christmas PowerPoint template that suits. Click here to download a free stunning PowerPoint template for Christmas. To vary the slides with different backgrounds, browse in Free Christmas PowerPoint Backgrounds Red, Blue and White.

2. Sift out useful content
Draft the story of Christmas symbols in Word. Remember to enable the spelling-checker to avoid a vocabulary error. Google for some free images for each symbol and edit them with Photoshop or else tool. Single out a soft sound track, or even a video clip, to vivify the Christmas presentation. From all the resources related, sort out those that best fit your presentation.
To get inspired, refer to Learn Christmas Holiday: 15 Christmas Symbols You Should Know

3. Organize the elements
Once all the specified stuff is imported to PowerPoint, arrange them in a logical look. You can consider using a chart to make a comparison of two or more symbols. Don't have too much text within one slide. 3-one is good, i.e. one image for one symbol, and one slide with one image. Minimize the sound icon if you don't want it to appear during slideshow. Also, adjust the frame of your inserted video until it runs perfect.

4. Don't forget Animations
Kids like lively things. So make best use of PowerPoint key features like animations, transitions, and even SmartArt. Meanwhile, remember the saying, "Too much good makes a thing bad". Use the dynamic effects in a moderate way.

5. Save it in Safe
After final rehearsal, it's time to save the presentation to storage. Oops! You don't have a home projector to show it to the kids! Got a TV and a DVD player? That's enough. You can burn the presentation of Christmas Symbols onto a DVD that can playback on a home TV, with an affordable converter like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner (3 Editions as the Pro, the Lite and the Edu). Click here to learn how to burn a Christmas PPT presentation to DVD

One Christmas Eve, after dinner, sitting with the kid(s) at TV, you can remote control the PowerPoint DVD and teach Christmas Symbols and their significance. Let your kids learn and enjoy the holiday.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Install and launch Moyea PPT4Web Converter. Import the PowerPoint file(s) you want to convert to flash video.
Step 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 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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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

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PPT to DVD Education
Burn school PowerPoint slideshow to DVD for Viewing on TV via DVD player.

PPT to video Education
Convert school PowerPoint slideshow to video for distritubing to students.

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

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


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• MS PowerPoint on Your PC


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• Mood Music or Video Clips


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• Quality Blank DVD Disk(s)


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• Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu


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• 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?

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.

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.

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!

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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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!

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

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.

See Also




Free Education PowerPoint Templates






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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 Name	Singer
Because You Loved Me	Celine Dion
Celebrate Good Times	Cool and The Gang
Let Them Be Little	Billy Dean
Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
This One's For the Girls	Martina McBride
A Bushel and A Peck	Prince Faith
Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Aretha Franklin
Beautiful Boy	Celine Dion
Brown-Eyed Girl	Van Morrison
Celebrate Good Times	Cool and The Gang
Dream a Little Dream of Me	Louis Armstrong
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun	Cyndi Lauper
Happy Birthday, Darlin'	Conway Twitty
Happy Birthday To You	Frank Sinatra
Keeper of the Stars	Tracy Byrd
Happy Girl	Martina McBride
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby	Ronnie Milsap
If I Could	Celine Dion
Isn't She Lovely	Stevie Wonder
It's Your Song	Garth Brooks
Miss Independent	Kelly Clarkson
My Girl	The Temptations
Oh, Pretty Woman	Roy Orbison
Photograph	Nickelback
She (Notting Hill Soundtrack)	Elvis Costello
She's a Lady	Tom Jones
She's Got a Way	Billy Joel
She's Not Just a Pretty Face	Shania Twain
Thanks for the Memories	Frank Sinatra
The Best is Yet to Come	Frank Sinatra
The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA	Donna Fargo
These Are The Days	Natalie Merchant
This is the Time	Billy Joel
Three Times a Lady	The Commodores
Too Marvelous for Words	Frank Sinatra
Unforgettable	Nat King Cole
We Are Family	Sister Sledge
What a Beautiful Day	Chris Cagle
Wild One	Faith Hill
You are So Beautiful	Engelbert Humperdinck
You Are So Beautiful	Joe 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: