Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Keynote for Students

It can be difficult to pay attention to the same old project presentations. The ones where the student or teacher read from slides are often the worst. It doesn't help when each slide has lots of text and bullets.

Keynote can help students redesign any presentation. With a few simple transitions and a short video demo, a volcano project presentation turns into an interactive demonstration and discussion. 

With Keynote, all a student needs to do is find the images and videos that will make the presentation pop and then drag and drop them into any Keynote slide. Resize, rotate, add shadowing and reflections, or adjust the opacity of an image to make it look professional. Then, write short text descriptions and expand on the image to keep audience members engaged.

Once the video is on the slide the students needs, adjust the the automatic start and stop time or set it up to start and stop with a click to introduce the clip.

Custom animations, great looking fonts, professional looking images, and automatic start and stop videos will make the audience, and the teacher, impressed!


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