Following on from my Screenr on how to create an animated clock effect in PowerPoint, here you can download my source file and adapt for your needs.
Watch the Screenr below if you want to make your own!
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Enriching Your e-Learning with Tabs – Update
16/04/2010 — JadeA few weeks back, I wrote a post for the Articulate Word of Mouth blog, exploring different ways in which you can use the tabs feature of Articulate, including adding Engage interactions and blank Quizmaker slides as tabs.
Well, as it turns out, you can also add single swf files as tabs into your presentations. This could be particularly useful if there’s a slide that you want to be accessible from anywhere within your presentation.
The video below will show you how you can do this.
Remember that you can create a swf file by building a slide in PowerPoint and then publishing it in Articulate – then each slide’s SWF file will be in the data/swf folder, and named according to the slide number (slide1.swf, for example). Do bear in mind though that any elements that are in your slide masters will NOT be held within the slideN.swf file.
Create a URL for a specific slide
25/02/2010 — JadeJust a quick post on creating a link to access a particular slide within an Articulate presentation, when accessing the presentation from outside. You can add ?slide=n to the end of your presentations URL in order to link to a specific slide.
For example, if I were wanting to provide a link directly to reception, which features in slide 4 in the interactive tour of my workplace (see this post for more details on how this was created), I would add ?slide=4 onto the end of the URL, like thus:
http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/welcome/player.html?slide=4
