Exercise: Practice inserting sample video clips and adjusting settings

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1 VISUAL LANGUAGE 2-day Condensed Workshop Training Agenda Pre-training Learning This workshop is a condensed version of the usual 3-day visual language experience to reduce registration costs and lessen time away from work but that doesn t mean you ll sacrifice valuable lessons taught in the full workshop. You won t. As with the Level 1 content you ve already gone through, Level 2 sessions exist in on-demand video format. You can get a jumpstart on the lessons, if you like, by watching some or all these clips in advance and practicing the techniques. You ll have access to Level 2 video shortly after registration. Live Training Event Day 1 VIDEO 7:30-8:00 Registration, networking, and computer setup 8:00-8:20 Welcome/introductions/logistics 8:20-8:30 What is video? 8:30-8:40 Video compression and codecs 8:40-8:50 Using video in your presentation platform 8:50-9:10 Inserting video and changing settings Exercise: Practice inserting sample video clips and adjusting settings 9:10-9:20 Setting an initial view and rewind Exercise: Practice changing initial view of clips 9:20-9:35 ---BREAK--- 9:35-9:50 Troubleshooting video 9:50-10:00 Converting video Page 1

2 10:00-10:10 Linking to video (as last resort) and discussion of when video goes inside platform folder Exercise: Practice linking to video clips 10:10-10:25 Video and Web-based presentation 10:25-10:35 Breaking up long segments (best practice) Exercise: Break the countdown video into three shorter segments 10:35-11:00 Adding a video dashboard to your platform and making video vocabulary Exercise: Create a video dashboard and video vocabulary and link into platform 11:00-11:15 Making thumbnail-based navigation from video Exercise: Add thumbnail-based navigation to the existing video dashboard 11:15-11:30 Best practice of having video both in slide shows and available from dashboards Exercise: Practice accessing existing video vocabulary from individual slide shows 11:30-Noon Noon-1:00 Making video from platform materials (using PowerPoint or Camtasia and Audacity) ---LUNCH ON YOUR OWN--- AUDIO 1:00-1:10 Uses for audio in your platform 1:10-1:40 Building an audio dashboard Exercise: Use Mp3s in your course resources to build a breaks music selection DOCUMENTS (PDF, WORD, EXCEL) 1:40-1:50 Uses for documents in your platform 1:50-2:00 Difference between embedding and linking to documents Exercise: Practice embedding and linking to documents in your course resources Page 2

3 2:00-2:25 Building a PDF dashboard and related PDF vocabular shows Exercise: Practice embedding and linking to documents in your course resources Practice using the Snipping Tool for making clipped screenshots 2:25-2:40 ---BREAK--- WEBSITES 2:40-3:00 Building a website dashboard and website vocabulary ANIMATIONS 3:00-3:15 Overview of what can be done with animations (animation-based content) 3:15-3:25 Animation best practices ask whether you really need animations 3:25-3:35 Exploring the animation working area Exercise: Open the Animation Pane and practice resizing and moving it 3:35-4:00 Adding and modifying basic fade animations (using Ribbon and Animation Pane) Exercise: Add a shape and practice fading it in and out Make modifications to the animations Day 2 (Animations Continued) 8:00-8:20 Exercise: Building out and back content example 8:20-8:30 Working with triggers 8:30-8:40 Exercise: Building basic triggered animation example 8:40-9:10 Exercise: Building on/off highlighting on a table 9:10-9:20 About motion paths (examples) Page 3

4 9:20-9:40 Working with Motion Paths Exercise: Practice adding motion paths and manipulating them Exercise: Practice adding fade animation and motion path to shape, triggered by another shape 9:40-9:50 Making Custom Motion Paths (heartbeat example) 9:50-10:05 ---BREAK--- Exercise: Use the Scribble tool to trace a path and then practice adjusting 10:10-10:25 Editing Motion Path Size and Points Exercise: Adjust the California paths to better fit the outline. Add points if necessary 10:25-10:55 Exercise: Build the race car game 10:55-11:35 Exercise: Build animated navigation 11:35-Noon Noon-1:00 Exercise: Build a Family Feud-style game for interactive testing/socratic Questioning ---LUNCH ON YOUR OWN--- 1:00-1:10 Exercise: Zooming in on detail 1:10-1:20 Exercise: Animating bars of a graph SHAPE GRAPHICS 1:20-1:30 Exercise: Using the Selection Pane 1:30-1:45 Working with shape fill gradients Exercise: Adjust color, stop positions, transparency, number of stops 1:45-1:55 Making a 3-D tube look Exercise: Use a gradient to give a rectangular shape a 3-D tubular effect Page 4

5 1:55-2:05 Shapes techniques: Organization Exercise: Build a semitransparent organization shape 2:05-2:15 Shapes techniques: Emphasis Exercise: Build the dynamic circle to emphasize data points 2:15-2:30 Changing PowerPoint settings (adding commands) Exercise: Experiment with using the new commands and settings 2:30-2:45 ---BREAK--- 2:45-3:00 Shapes techniques: De-emphasis Exercise: Build a de-emphasis effect 3:00-3:20 Shapes techniques: Effects Exercise: Make lens flare effect Exercise: Simulate a bubble sphere 3:20-3:30 Exercise: Make circles appear in staggered fashion 3:30-4:00 Working with Custom Shapes Graphic design continued Exercise: Making Custom Shapes Scribble Tool Exercise: Making Custom Shapes Scribble Tool Adding a picture fill Exercise: Making Custom Shapes Freeform Tool Tracing state for navigation Exercise: Making Custom Shapes Curve Tool Making a checkmark Page 5