ICT Skills for Teachers
Create multimedia e-learning lesson presentations (Intermediate level)
As an educator you may have used Microsoft PowerPoint to to support you during a classroom presentation. Now that many more students have personal devices in class and at home you have the opportunity to develop e-learning lessons. Using the Mix plugin to Microsoft PowerPoint you can upgrade an original presentation into an e-learning resource by capturing your video, audio, screen shots and screen recordings. You can also create new e-learning resources.
By the end of this task you could achieve the following outcomes:
- Download and install Office Mix
- Access the Office Mix gallery online
- Prepare for a recording
- Start a recording
- Record and annotate slides
- Preview a recording
- Create a screencast recording
- Capture screen shots
- Export a Mix to video
Create your own Mix presentation- one which you will find useful. To do so you would typically work through the following steps:
| 1. | Download and install Office Mix. See how » |
| 2. | Start Microsoft PowerPoint. See how » |
| 3. | Open an existing presentation or create a simple presentation See how » |
| 4. | Save your work: Remember to save you work regularly. See how » |
| 5. | Prepare for a Mix recording: Set up your cam. audio, pen colour and nib size. See how » |
| 6. | Start a recording. See how » Record and annotate the slide(s) while recording. See how » |
| 7. | Preview your recording. See how » |
| 8. | Capture and insert a process as a screen recording: If you want to demonstrate how to perform a function on the device as part of the presentation you can capture and insert a video of the demonstration. See how » |
| 9. | Capture and insert screen shot: If you would like to insert an excerpt from a screen or a whole screen shot in your presentation you can do so with Office Mix. See how » |
| 10. | Export the presentation to video: If you would like to place the presentation on your blog or another website for your students you can export it to a video format to suit the requirement. See how » |
| 11. | Save your Mix presentation. |
Related scenarios
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