Comments on: How Walt Disney Would Use PowerPoint to Create E-Learning Courses

By: 3 PowerPoint Animation Tricks | How to PowerPoint

3 PowerPoint Animation Tricks | How to PowerPoint — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:41:41 +0000

[...] The Rapid E-Learning Blog has an excellent post that combines these animation capabilities and shows you How Walt Disney Would Use PowerPoint to Create E-Learning Courses. [...]

By: David Anderson

David Anderson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:39:51 +0000

Great post Tom! Exactly what I was looking for!

By: David

David — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:33:37 +0000

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:11:59 +0000

Just viewed your tutorial about animation with powerpoint.
http://www.articulate.com/community/blogdemo/animation1/player.html
Would like to view the next tutorial to learn how to put those slides into one slide. We are planning to teach this to students grades 3 – 6
Thank you.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Good question, Indu. Essentially, if you just looked at animation, you’d see that PowerPoint can produce comparable results. Although as the animation becomes more sophisticated, then Flash is a better tool.

The strength of Flash is in the Action Script and being able to program variables for example. It really depends on the needs of your project. Software that converts your PowerPoint to Flash do a lot of the leg work by building the player infrastructure and SCORM compliance. But if you need to add variables or more sophistication, then you might opt for Flash. I think we’ll see more hybird development. For example, our new Engage community interactions allow a Flash programmer to custom build interactions and still get the benefit of the Engage player.

By: Indu

Indu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:34:39 +0000

Hi Tom,

Many thanks for all the inputs you give through your blog. You have no idea how much I learn from each of your posts Thanks again.

I was wondering how Flash animations differ from those made in PowerPoint. When PowerPoint is so easily accessible, why do a lot of e-learning companies opt for Flash? What exactly do you think is the advantage of Flash over PowerPoint?

Keep blogging, please!
Thanks,
Indu

By: tom

tom — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:25:30 +0000

@Abby: You’re right. I just revisited that demo and realized that I didn’t include it. Basically, all you do is copy the animations from the slides and paste on to a single slide. You want to keep them in order. Also, you need to apply the “flash once” animation to them. This will create the sense of movement.

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:28:07 +0000

I still did not see a response about how to combine the series of slides that make up the bouncing ball into one slide. Thanks. -Abby

By: simi

simi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:34:05 +0000

Hi my name is simi…i think dis is superb i cum on dis site by chance ,bt it really fantastic…evrything is really abt it thx 2 provide dis resource to intrested ppl…..

By: eshetu admasu

eshetu admasu — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:41:24 +0000

i have got what i want,since i am developing an elearning system
for bahirdar university engineering faculity!
10Q