MS PowerPoint® is the leading presentation software used in business and education for more than twenty years. It has become the dominant presentation tool in our professional and educational world, usually with the intention of creating audio-visual presentations. The ease of use of PowerPoint® can save time and encourage presenters who otherwise would have used other types of whiteboards or overhead projections, resulting in billions of PowerPoint® files made each year. However, although billions of PowerPoint documents are available and can support learning effectively, they are no substitute for the in-depth information and guidance a presenter should deliver. If audience members are not seeing or listening to the presenter, then reading the slides in isolation will be less valuable. However, it may not be possible for an instructor, student, conference participant, social worker, statistician, surveyor, financial analyst, manager or sales man to be there live or physically present at an event.
RealShow® coordinates webcam video of the presenter with the PowerPoint presentation and saves the record as a single and compressed video file in WMV, AVI, FLV, or SWF format. You can easily make presentation available via the Internet or even upload video to YouTube and blogs. Recording video tutorials and presentations is not a new idea. Tutorials, lectures and presentation can be recorded and used later for class revision, knowledge sharing, and distance education purposes. The new is the very simple interface and tool that help presenters to integrate their valuable slides, freehand typing and drawing, and video narration in one single peace of video. That RealShow. I would be very grateful if you can try it and let me know your feedback.
RealShow® was designed to help educators and business presenters apply principles for the design of multimedia materials and human cognitive processing in delivering their PowerPoint slides. RealShow® takes advantage of the dual-channel structure of the human information processing system by means of text, pictures and audio. It can promote active cognitive processing by allowing the presenter to guide the processes of selecting, organizing, and integrating information. RealShow® gives visual aids and fosters human contact between the presenter and the audience. The presenter can clearly identify the main points and communicate in a way that will have the desired impact on the audience through texts, illustrations, slides, and visual presence of the presenter.