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Before You Commit Yourself To Using Powerpoint + Audio: Advantages Disadvantages

This document discusses options for using PowerPoint with audio and provides guidance on when it may or may not be an effective choice. It notes that PowerPoint with audio has advantages like ease of conversion for online delivery and familiarity, but also disadvantages such as lack of interactivity and large file sizes. It recommends considering whether audio alone or existing content sources could meet pedagogical goals instead. It also stresses the need for transcripts and student control of playback. File sizes would be too large to download over a modem, requiring compression.

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Before You Commit Yourself To Using Powerpoint + Audio: Advantages Disadvantages

This document discusses options for using PowerPoint with audio and provides guidance on when it may or may not be an effective choice. It notes that PowerPoint with audio has advantages like ease of conversion for online delivery and familiarity, but also disadvantages such as lack of interactivity and large file sizes. It recommends considering whether audio alone or existing content sources could meet pedagogical goals instead. It also stresses the need for transcripts and student control of playback. File sizes would be too large to download over a modem, requiring compression.

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Before you commit yourself to using PowerPoint + audio

Keep in mind: 1. What advantage does PowerPoint with audio have over other media you might choose? Advantages Disadvantages Easy way to convert lecture to Not an engaging way to present material online delivery more boring and difficult to follow than a lecture Mostly familiar technology Absolutely no interactivity Less time-consuming than creating interactive modules Large file sizes not good for modem access Reusable Significant effort required to make Good for weak readers lessons accessible to students with disabilities or learning differences For lecture review (i.e., students attend lecture and access the audio afterward to study), students prefer audio only, without PPT because its more portable 2. Does PowerPoint with a voiceover accomplish your pedagogical goals? If you are just delivering content to students, is there an existing source of content (book, web site, paper, notes page) that you could use? Is there a way of combining information delivery with some form of interaction? 3. All verbal recordings should have a written transcript for the benefit of students with hearing difficulties or whose learning styles are not primarily auditory (many students learn better from reading something than listening to it, just as many students learn better hearing material than reading it). There is no reliable tool for creating such transcriptions automatically. 4. Students must be able to control the playback of the recording. Either record separate audio tracks for each individual slide and ask students to click to start the audio, or use a tool that creates a clickable table of contents so students can jump to clearly labeled parts of the presentation. 5. Files need to be compressed; even so, file sizes will be too big to download over a modem. (Uncompressed audio is nearly 1Mb per minute; compressed audio is 200300Kb/minute.)

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PowerPoint Audio Options


Option Camtasia produce as Real; 640x480; 56Kb modem; sharpest image; 280Kb/minute Record and compress audio using Real Producer Basic, then attach to PPT Audio only, compressed with Real Producer Basic Real Presenter Basic Pros Records entire screen; can include PPT, web sites, Excel, etc. all with voice narration. It can also create HTML files with a clickable table of contents When produced as Flash. Free; compresses files Cons Recommende d? Costs $300. Takes a little Yes perhaps more time to learn. Many buy one editing options can be a license per big time-sink. Indexed files division. are large (1Mb/minute)and dont work with Firefox.

Moderately labor intensive. Yes Inconvenient if there is no lecture to record. Editing, if desired, is timeconsuming. Inconvenient if there is no lecture to record. Editing, if desired, is timeconsuming. Complex; many steps must record video separately, then compress, then attach to PPT. Talking head video is not necessary; many people dislike it. Caps presentations at 15 minutes. Produces large files about 800Kb per minute of audio (at even at telephone quality, the smallest size) Yes.

On-campus students prefer audio recordings of lectures to recordings with video/ppt components. Free compression software makes smaller files. Free. Creates clickable table of contents.

Maybe - Only if youre willing to put in a lot of extra work to save $300.

Record directly in PPT using its Record Audio feature

Very easy to use; free

No. Files are too large for most purposes.

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