Everybody knows I use Moodle quite a bit, but what they might not now is I now use Keynote exclusively for anything I’m doing that’s slide-y in nature. Hey, if it’s good enough for Steve Jobs it’s good enough for me.
One of the things I like about it is just how easy it is to export the file into multiple formats. For a presentation I’m doing later this week I’m going to use a Moodle “course” in tandem, to distribute my files and hopefully keep the conversation going after everyone’s gone home. My presentation is actually several smaller presentations. I’ve been serving them up in both PDF and Flash formats. The latter is particularly useful–here’s what I’m doing:
- Export the Keynote presentation in Flash format.
- (optional) Open the HTML generated by Keynote and change the dimensions of the Flash container to, say, 800 by 600, or another size if necessary. This does involve getting into the HTML, but the only things you need to change are the numbers–everything else can stay the same.
- Log into your Moodle course and enter the Files area (in the Administration block). Upload both the HTML and the SWF files that were generated by Keynote.
- Turn editing on in your course, then add a File resource. Point it to the HTML file. Have it open in a new window, (optionally) turn off all the resizing, menu bars, etc., and make the window size 850 by 650 (or something appropriate to what you set the dimensions to in step 2).
That’s pretty much it. Not too difficult, huh? I love it when the tools actually make life a little easier.
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