Rich Media Presentation
with Adobe Presenter
Pil-Won On
[email protected]
TLT Distance Ed Incentive Awards Program Faculty Intensive, Spring 2009
Why Rich Media Presentation?
• Different Learning Styles
o VAK/VAKT model
o Felder & Soloman
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Active vs. Reflective
Sensing vs. Intuitive
Visual vs. Verbal
Sequential vs. Global
• Dual Coding Theory (Paivio)
:How visual information is processed and stored in
memory and gives equal weight to verbal and non-verbal
processing
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What is Presenter?
• Adobe Connect plug-in integrated
with Microsoft PowerPoint
• Rapidly create Flash-based
presentations
• Check out
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/gom
eet/index.cfm for more information
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What are we going to do…
1. Install a Presenter plug-in (already installed in
lab)
2. Record/edit/synchronize audio/video*
3. Create quizzes (non-gradable)
4. Customize presentations
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Set Preferences
Presentation Settings
5. Publish presentations (to Blackboard/Connect
server)
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Presentation Only to Blackboard
To Connect Server*
* See the manual for detail instruction of italic items
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Adobe Presenter Plug-in
• Adobe Presenter Plug-in:
– Install file available for PC Only
– Requires PowerPoint 2000, XP (2002), 2003, or
2007
– Menu to PowerPoint
– All of the functionality you will need is available
from the tab menu.
• Users need flash player to view content
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Installing Presenter Plug-in
• Download the serial number (in a pdf file) and
the installer (“presenter.msi”) from
https://www.itap.purdue.edu/training/material
s/list.cfm?TopicID=211
• You can download the presenter installer only
from https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu
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Log in with your Purdue career account
Under the Resources tab
Click on the Open link in Getting Started
You need the author access first: Request Author
and Meeting Host Role
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Record/Edit/Synchronize Audio
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1. Choose Record Audio from the Adobe Presenter menu.
2. Set your microphone recording level.
3. Begin recording audio. Clicking Next >> advances the presentation to
the next slide. Clicking Next Animation allows you to time
PowerPoint animations to your narration. If there are no animations
on the slide, click Stop Recording, then Next>> to start narrating the
next slide.
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Capturing Video
(see the manual for detail instruction)
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Choose Capture Video from the Adobe Presenter menu.
Select Attach to slide <Slide #> as <Slide video> or <Sidebar video>
Capture the video using Start Recording
and Stop Recording
Click Ok to insert it to the slide or Click
to save it to a different
file.
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Creating Quizzes
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1. Choose Quiz Manager from the Adobe Presenter menu.
2. Click Add New Question to add a question or Import Quizzes from your existing
presentations created in Adobe Presenter
3. Choose the type of question you would like to create and fill in question properties.
4. Continue until you have created all questions and click OK in the Quiz Manager.
5. New slides are added to the presentation for each question you created.
6. Edit Quizzes for advanced options like pooling, shuffling and branching
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Customize Your Presentation:
Set Preferences
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1. Choose Preferences from the Adobe Presenter menu.
2. Create a presenter profile.
3. (Optionally) Configure the Adobe Connect Enterprise server to
which you want to publish
• Purdue Connect Server URL: https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu
• We will get back to this when publishing your presentation
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Customize Your Presentation:
Presentation Settings
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1. In Presentation Settings from the Adobe Presenter menu.
2. The Settings lets you change the presentation title, add a
presentation summary, and select other presentation settings.
3. Use the Theme Editor to customize the presentation interface.
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Publish Your Presentation
:Presentation Only to Blackboard
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1. Choose Publish from the Adobe Presenter menu
2. In My Computer, browse the location that you will save the presentation file
(Desktop would be easily located)
3. Check “Zip package” and click “Publish”
4. Log on to Blackboard and enter your class
(continue to the next slide)
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Publish Your Presentation
:Presentation Only to Blackboard
In Blackboard
1. Under the Build tab, click on the File Manager
2. Click the Get Files button, Browse to navigate/select the .zip file
created by Adobe Presenter, and then click Open
3. Extract the zip file (the Extract menu available in the actionlinks
located adjacent to the file). It will be unzipped in the new folder
(the folder name is the same as the zip file
4. Locate the space you want to display the presentation
5. Click on “Add File” > “Browse for Files”
6. In Class Files, click on the folder unzipped, check the “index.htm”
file, and then click OK.
7. You can add this presentation page in the Learning Modules as well.
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