How to podcast your PowerPoint presentations with audio
You know what it is like - you have given your presentation, and your audience would like to get your slides. But your speak is not recorded. And can your slides really speak for themselves? Probably not.
Recently there has been some focus on Slideshare, which has added an easy way to produce slidecasts - slideshows with mp3-soundtrack.
But still slidecasts are not podcasts. They are Flash-files which can only be streamed on a website.
Enhanced podcasts have been the preserve of Mac users, who equipped with Garageband and other Apple software can record audio and add photos - even links - to their files and publish to iTunes and automatically transfer to iPods. Podcasts with chapters are still not possible to make on pc´s.
But I can show you how to make your PowerPoints into podcasts - on a pc. With no extra cost, you can take your presentation and add narration to the slides and turn the presentation into a videopodcast, which is possible to subscribe to and get automatically delivered to iTunes and - even better - transferred to video iPods.
Imagine the use as
Audioguides
Manuals
Tutorials
Lectures
Product presentation
Sales Pitch
This podcast “Thepodjournal” - Episode 1 - is a PowerPoint presentation (12 minutes) I have made exactly as I describe in the tutorial, and you can do the same, if you go through the steps.
Let me know, how it goes.
You can watch the tutorial in this Google(Flash)video - and go to GoogleVideo and get the embedded code for your own blog, if you like.
This is the address to the enhanced podcast, if you want to download it to your pc. (right click and Save destination…)
http://www.thepodjournal.com/podcasts/thepodjournal/PowerPoints_on_iPods.m4b
Remember - you can only open with/play in Itunes or transfer to video iPods.
If you want to add this podcast to iTunes (subscribe) - click here
This is the feed to the podcast, if you want to subscribe to it manually http://thepodjournal.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&category_name=thepodjournal
Extra! In this instructional video you can learn how to make your PowerPoints more readable on iPods small screens.
Hat tip to Paul St. Denis, who helped out with Webpoderator.
Hi Karin:
Hello from your American namesake (i.e. last name). I suspect my great-grandfather may have dropped the second “H” in our last name. Regardless, great screencast on a good subject. I just created a screencast on how to use jump drives as mobile learning content. Click upon my name for access. You’ll also find a link to some other iPod screencast content at the very bottom of my post.
Good luck from a Danish American … who still has family near Aabenraa.
Well hello there, my last name is actually Høgh - o with a line - but I guess your great-grandfather had to leave that behind as well as he left for America.
I used to work in Aabenraa - well it´s a small world.
I find your blog very interesting. Thank you.
i cant read the web address for the thing that turns the video to a podcast….all i can tell is tat its some numbers then webpoderator