LiberCloud LLC
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Using existing presentation
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instruction materials
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Using Microsoft 1PowerPoint
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LiberCloud for instruction materials
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Summary
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Using LiberCloud Slideshows and PowerPoint in
Instruction Materials
Presentation software, also referred as slideshow software, allows anyone to illustrate
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concepts and topic overviews very quickly and simply. Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple
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Keynote, and Google Slides are some of these popular software apps, with PowerPoint
being the most common data format supported by all.
Many trainers, instructors and teachers use presentation software to deliver learning
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content, but its effectiveness is limited. The new system that LiberCloud is introducing
transforms a slideshow delivery into a new more effective and efficient method for
instructional content and for collaboration that engages the audience with interactive
canvas slides and polls.
Using LiberCloud Slideshows with Microsoft PowerPoint in Instruction Materials
Using existing presentation software for instruction materials
A key tenet of managing instruction materials is the ability to reuse content in different
scenarios or classrooms and therefore having the ability to share materials easily is
important. New cloud-based presentation or slideshow apps allow users to create files
directly on the cloud and share them more easily. Microsoft PowerPoint Online and
Google Slides are two examples. While these online systems are better for sharing and
collaborating than their desktop counterparts they still carry the inefficiency of managing
entire presentations as monolithic data, i.e. reusing individual slides in their native format
into external content, such as a learning management system, web books or online
courses, is difficult.
Cloud-based presentation software, such as PowerPoint Online, has introduced
capabilities for co-authoring content and “working together” on the same content at the
same time. This document-based or slide-based collaboration is a step forward in
making it easier to collaborate on authoring content than desktop software. However, in
a learning environment or classroom, a canvas-based system can be more productive
and more effective to brainstorm ideas and develop concepts in a group even when
viewing a slideshow.
Using PowerPoint with LiberCloud for instruction materials
LiberCloud has been designed for collaboration and content reuse. Its seamless
integration with the cloud-based version of presentation software brings some of these
important benefits to slideshows as well, and making slideshows better suited for
delivery of instructional content. The first of such seamless integrations is with Microsoft
Office Online1, which will be available in the early summer of 2016.
A slideshow in LiberCloud is a collection of learning assets that an author wants to
deliver to an audience in a slideshow manner, i.e. progressing from slide to slide
manually or automatically. The author can add to the slideshow a PowerPoint slide deck
plus additional asset types depending on the intended audience. Asset types available
on LiberCloud are rich text, interactive canvas, hosted video or embedded from
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YouTube , images and snapshots of drawings created in canvas, assessments,
surveys, and polls. The author can either upload an existing PowerPoint slide deck or
create new slides from scratch using the PowerPoint Online editor.
The slideshow itself becomes an asset that can be combined with other assets in a
LiberPage, the building block for lesson plans, assignments, collaboration and content
sharing in LiberCloud.
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Using LiberCloud Slideshows with Microsoft PowerPoint in Instruction Materials
Authors and instructors gain significant benefits when using LiberCloud Slideshows:
1. Reuse individual slides: the new system improves upon the monolithic approach of
traditional presentation software and makes it easier to share individual slides. The
important benefit to authors is that now they can incorporate those individual slides –
charts or diagrams that they have spent so much time creating – in their native format
with animation and everything into external learning or instructional content.
LiberCloud makes it easier to find those slides, without having to browse through
entire presentations, and easier to reuse them without duplicating content.
2. Brainstorm ideas with canvas-based slides: LiberCanvas is a web and mobile app
that lets users write and draw on a shared canvas as well as record content that can
then be shared as videos. While PowerPoint Online real-time collaboration allows
multiple authors to co-edit a
PowerPoint file at the same
time, canvas-based slides in a
slideshow make it easier for
authors as well as viewers to
brainstorm ideas using a
virtual whiteboard. For
example, a group assignment
could be delivered as a viewonly slideshow, with
background info provided in
PowerPoint and with a canvas
slide that they can write on
and collaborate in real-time.
3. Engage audience with Polls: by allowing PowerPoint slide decks to be combined
with other assets makes it easier and more efficient to create and package learning
and instructional content by relying on complementary asset types for such purposes.
For example, combining PowerPoint with LiberCloud’s polls allows a trainer or
teacher to embed easily and seamlessly polls in a slideshow to engage the audience
and collect results to gauge comprehension.
4. Embed PowerPoint and slideshows in online courses: the integration of
LiberCloud with PowerPoint gives LiberCloud users the ability to leverage on existing
PowerPoint content and skills, and it gives PowerPoint users the ability to leverage
on LiberCloud’s instructional content delivery methods, such as LiberBooks, and
summative and formative assessments.2
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Using LiberCloud Slideshows with Microsoft PowerPoint in Instruction Materials
5. Make communication more personal with audio-visual annotations: LiberCloud
makes it easier to create and exchange audio-visual annotations on individual slides
or an entire presentation thus making communication and collaboration more
personal and effective, in particular with the current generation of students who prefer
using mobile devices over traditional desktops or laptops.
Summary
LiberCloud Slideshows are another content delivery method for instructional content
similar to online courses, web books, or eBooks. An author typically embeds the
slideshow in a LiberPage, the building block for lesson plans, courses and assignments.
Alternatively, users can share the slideshow URL or embed it an external web page.
LiberCloud Slideshows make PowerPoint Online even better because all slides in
PowerPoint presentations are immediately available for reuse individually. It’s easier to
find individual slides and easier to reuse them, without duplicating slides.
LiberCloud with PowerPoint gives PowerPoint users the ability to easily combine their
presentations with interactive canvas slides and polls to engage audience, and the ability
to embed their content in LiberPages, LiberBooks and Courses, with little effort, giving
them the ability to use formal assessments as well – all integrated under one coherent
system, instead of relying on dissimilar and disjointed systems.
Furthermore, users can create and exchange audio-visual annotations on PowerPoint
slides more easily using the natural interface of LiberCanvas. This is a great time saver
to provide feedback on projects or assignments.
PowerPoint with LiberCloud is still the familiar PowerPoint but it’s a better PowerPoint.
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PowerPoint Online is Microsoft’s proprietary service. LiberCloud, as a Microsoft Partner, can store
PowerPoint content on own cloud storage for its subscribers. Creating or editing PowerPoint content on
LiberCloud is accomplished through Microsoft’s PowerPoint Online provided web services.
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Improve retention of learning content with Differentiated Instruction and Assessments For Learning
(LiberCloud)
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© 2016 LiberCloud . All rights reserved. LiberCloud is a registered trademark and LiberCloud Logo is a trademark of
LiberCloud LLC. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.
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