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Articulate Presenter

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CTELT would like to present Articulate Presenter, a new tool for faculty do deliver PowerPoint content to students online and at a distance. Presenter lets users, with little technical experience, create flash media presentations that integrate narration with a standard PowerPoint presentation.

With Articulate Presenter, you can:

• Create presentations and lectures, complete with narration, animation and interactivity.
• Develop and deliver content with in minutes rather than hours.
• Distribute your presentations and lectures through Blackboard, the Internet and CD-ROM.
• With Articulate Presenter, your presentation is converted to a Flash file, which is already installed in 98% of Web browsers today. Flash files are extremely small and web friendly, so they download fast for students.

If you are updating an articulate Powerpoint page but the narration will stay the same, you can fix the error or update the slide in PP, save, and then republish. I found this to be REALLY helpful.

However, there are a few tricky things between 2003 and 2007 Powerpoint and articulate.

• If you are updating an articulate, be sure to check your clip art. In 2003 PP, you could add clip art almost anywhere on the PowerPoint page and it would stay in the position you selected when you developed an articulate. However, in 2007 PP, the clip art will move around on the page when you update it in articulate. I was able to fix it, IF and only if, I put all the clip art inside the box that PP creates for clip art.
• I also had problems with text boxes. They tended to move around on the PP page when they were saved in articulate.
• PP 2007 has also changed something about the Master pages. If I have the notation of dev: kk 1/01, Rev 6/05, such as what we use to track our documents, these notations become superimposed on one another if the PP was created in 2003. The only thing I could do to force this to work in articulate was to erase all notations made on the Master PP pages.
• I have found nothing that will fix the square boxes at the end of lines that appear in articulate. I suppose we will have to republish all articulates once they get this fixed.