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Following are a number of suggestions and helpful hints for recording, developing, and publishing online presentations and education.

Slide Shows

Tools, Techniques, and Formats

Slides are useful for visually displaying speaking points, providing diagrams, graphs, and flow charts, and giving detailed text such as URL links. Teaching is aided by presenting information in different formats. Some students learn best from text, others learn by listening, others learn visually from spatial presentation. Use slides to amplify your points.

These are some of the more common methods of developing slides for presenations:

• Microsoft PowerPoint
  Advantages: Large user base. Free viewers to Windows and other platforms. Many slide and presentation templates.
  Disadvantages: Editing confuses styles with content.

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• Portable Document Format (PDF)
  Advantages: Open Standard (ISO 32000). Viewable on many platforms. Can be created from many applications via PDF print drivers.

A Tuscany Slide Template (Microsoft PowerPoint format) is available for download.

Capturing Video and Audio

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