Why Twitter? Of course!
I tried Twitter a few months ago and did not "get it" and I stopped using it. I picked it back up this weekend, and today I had that "a-ha" moment and realized why I will continue to use it.
I discovered a neat techno-trick today. I had a 118 MB, 84 slide PowerPoint presentation that I to move into someone else's template and it was not going well. So, I simply saved the presentation as JPEGs, created a photo album in PowerPoint with the organization's template as the background and imported the JPEGs of the slides, and just resized the JPEGs on the slides so their logo showed. Imagine my surprise, after saving this new presentation, to realize that the 188 MB PowerPoint presentation was now only 5.6 MB! I don't know why, but, in case you are interested, here are the steps again.
So, usually when I have a techno-discovery I go charging out of my office to share the news with someone-- a teacher, secretary, or even a 6th grader if they will listen. No one is usually very interested. However, today I went right to Twitter to share my discovery with people who ARE interested!
I have figured out the power of Twitter (for me) is the ability to share my ideas and thoughts with like-minded individuals who DO get excited about geeky techno-discoveries and enjoy sharing their own, too!
w00t and thanks to my Twitter buddies!
I discovered a neat techno-trick today. I had a 118 MB, 84 slide PowerPoint presentation that I to move into someone else's template and it was not going well. So, I simply saved the presentation as JPEGs, created a photo album in PowerPoint with the organization's template as the background and imported the JPEGs of the slides, and just resized the JPEGs on the slides so their logo showed. Imagine my surprise, after saving this new presentation, to realize that the 188 MB PowerPoint presentation was now only 5.6 MB! I don't know why, but, in case you are interested, here are the steps again.
- Save your large presentation as JPEGs which creates a folder with each slide as its own JPEG.
- Open a new presentation and choose to create a photo album in PowerPoint, choose the folder of JPEGs as your "photos" and then save that photo alubum.
- Miraculously, the slide show is much smaller than the orginal!
So, usually when I have a techno-discovery I go charging out of my office to share the news with someone-- a teacher, secretary, or even a 6th grader if they will listen. No one is usually very interested. However, today I went right to Twitter to share my discovery with people who ARE interested!
I have figured out the power of Twitter (for me) is the ability to share my ideas and thoughts with like-minded individuals who DO get excited about geeky techno-discoveries and enjoy sharing their own, too!
w00t and thanks to my Twitter buddies!
Labels: Kathy Schrock, Twitter
posted by Kathy Schrock at 4:01 PM
8 Comments:
So how do I get your twitter messages?
You join Twitter (twitter.com) and search for user "kathyschrock" and choose to follow! (I have to approve you, but I try to approve people once per day.)
Kathy
YAY! I am so glad you found your niche in Twitter. I am "techforschool" on twitter!
Hi Kathy,
Best to be sure you know what your privacy options are on Twitter. I've written a blog post on some of my concerns in this blog post.
The two key questions to ask yourself are:
1. Do I care if people outside my friends list can see what I’ve posted?
2. Do I need to be able to undo/delete previous messages if I want to retract or correct what I’ve said?
If your answer is yes to either question, read on....
The trick with making slides into .jpgs can also help to make great movies. You can make a storyboard in ppt, save as .jpgs then import into movie maker. Add a narration/sound track and bingo. For example videos and my lesson plans, click here
Thanks for sharing Kathy. What a difference in the final size. Great idea. Will put this to use. I liked how you made the organization's template your background.
1. Why smaller size is you replaced the multiple images and their positioning instructions, etc. with a single compressed image;
2. But you lose the animation, etc.
3. But yes, do always take a jpeg of your final composite of screenshots, etc- the jpeg's better than any low carb diet - then add the animations.
I'd guess that the original PowerPoint file had digital pictures from a camera that were 1 or 2 Mb each. If you had 100 slides you could easily have a 100 or 200Mb PowerPoint. When you save the PowerPoint as JPGs, file size of each of those images gets much reduced. This is a great trick. thanks so much for posting it. see you on Twitter!
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