How to PowerPoint

Screenr is a great screencasting application.  It lets you make videos of your computer screen that you can share with others.  Here’s what I like about Screenr:

• It’s free
• Doesn’t require a download
• Easy to share via Twitter or Youtube
• Looks great on the iPhone or iPod Touch

PowerPoint and Screenr are a great combination.  I like to frame the screencast border around a blank PowerPoint slide to give me a virtual whiteboard.  Then I can use all of PowerPoint’s features as I explain a topic or present a lecture.

This works really well with a tablet PC (which you can see below) because it looks more like a real whiteboard.  It’s a great way to do math lessons, for example.

Check out the screencasts below.  In the first one, I show a demo of how it looks with a tablet PC (although it that demo I used OneNote).

Example of a Virtual Whiteboard

Click here to view the Screenr demo.

Here’s another example of Screenr and PowerPoint.

How to Frame the Screenr Window

In this next example, I explain how I frame the Screenr window around the blank PowerPoint slide.

Click here to view the Screenr demo.

One other thing I really like about Screenr is that the full screen of HD view mode gives you a really clear and crisp image.  Most of those video sites give you a full screen image which tends to make the video blurry because it stretches the video to fit your screen.

Give it a try, I’m sure that you’ll find that the combination of Screenr and PowerPoint is a winner.

PS.  If you’re not familiar with OneNote, check out Microsoft’s OneNote site.  It’s one of my favorite applications.

You don’t need a tablet PC to get the benefits of a tablet PC.  If you have Microsoft Vista or Windows 7 you can enable the the tablet functionality.

However, to get the most out of the tablet functionality, it helps to have a tablet.  In the demo below, I hooked up an older Wacom tablet to see how it would function in Vista with PowerPoint 2007.  As you can see in the demo below , it works well. 

Wacom Tablet Demo

Click here to view the demo.

The tablet functionality gives you a lot of neat features and capability.  One of the things I like is being able to add a personal touch with handwritten text and hand drawn arrows and circles.  It’s a great way to draw attention to the content.

I bought a used Wacom tablet, but you can see that the prices have come down.  It’s worth the investment.