What do you call this kind of graphic?

What do you call this kind of graphic?

by Doug Moody -
Number of replies: 3

I have been an avid user of FLV files on my Moodle site. But yesterday I encountered a website that showed a lengthy "video". But I don't think it was a video. Basically, it was a long slideshow with narration. the narrator was speaking what was on the slides almost verbatim, and at the end there was an action required (click on a new link)

I think this might be some kind of Flash animation, but I don't know what it was. It would be an ideal tool for my Moodle site IF Moodle supports it. I certainly don't want to upload an FLV site that just has non-moving slides in it. That would be a large and unnecessarily bloated file. Judging by what I saw though, a non-animated slideshow with good graphics and narrated with audio would be perfect.

Does anyone want to guess what that was, and if so, give me some ideas on how to incorporate it into my Moodle site, because I don't know if Moodle can accept such graphics? Are there some free "producer apps" that would help me make such slideshows?

 

Thanks for any and all responses.

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Re: What do you call this kind of graphic?

by Ann Adamcik -

A narrated powerpoint presentation, maybe?

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Re: What do you call this kind of graphic?

by Mary Cooch (personal account) -
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I can do that sort of stuff with iSpring free but it comes up as a Swf file not an FLV.

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Re: What do you call this kind of graphic?

by Doug Moody -

Mary,

I have looked at iSpring Free, and it looks nice. But I am not sure how to embed an SWF file so that it plays like an FLV. Can I do that? The integrated Flow Player does a nice job with FLV files, but I haven't tried SWF files???

Ann. the reason the Powerpoint option doesn't work is because of the very limited restrictions Moodle has on converting PP shows. You have to really restrict which features you use in PP or else the conversion looks really bad. Plus, I have never tried adding narration into a PP that I then ported over to Moodle specs. Have you?