Free alternatives to Breeze?. Like Stephen, I was suitably awed by the nifty Breeze presentation on Wikis that Brian Lamb put together,
and like Stephen and James, wished I too could do something similar but
without the cost of Breeze. (It should be noted, however, that the
niftiness of the presentation seems like it was 15% Breeze and 85%
Brian's humour and ingenuity.)
I hunted around for some free options, and didn't come up with much.
But below is a list of possibilities and pointers if you are interested
in following up on this:
- OpenOffice's presentation tool allows you to export as flash
presentations; unfortunately, it doesn't seem to do voice narration
(yet)
- PowerPoint does actually allow you to do voice narration of your
slides, and you may be able to export these in IE-specific formats that
preserve the voice narration on the web (though I couldn't get it to
work). You could also investigate one of the many Powerpoint-to-Flash conversion tools that exist and see if any of them preserve the audio narration
- there are quite a few commercial products that offer screen capture
and voice narration capabilities. One that I have used is Qarbon's
Viewletbuilder. I seem to think we got it for a couple of hundred
bucks. This presentation groups
such products under the heading of 'Demo Software' (that is, software
to create software demos) and lists a bunch of others one could
consider, some for as little as $80.
I'm really interested to hear Brian's own reflections on how big a
part Breeze played in this presentation. I get the sense that while one
could have produced this using other software, Breeze definitely can
help the process along. - SWL [EdTechPost]
5:38:15 PM  Google It!.
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