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Powerpoint
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1. Introduction
2. Tools You Need
3. Methods to Put Online
4. Make Webpage Method
5. Save Slides as Images
6. Template of Webpage
7. Title Slide
8. Bullet-List Slide
9. Multiple Column Slide
10. Embedded Video Slide
11. Table Slide
12. Image Slide
13. Drawing Shapes Slide
14. Notes Slide
15. Chart Slide
16. Non-Outline Text Slide
17. Sound Slide
18. Animation Slide
19. Publish to Blackboard
20. Publish to WebCT
21. Resources

Adding Sound Slide to Webpage Template

PowerPoint allows you to add sounds to your presentations. Most sounds that occur in a PowerPoint presentation happen during slide transitions. When converting a PowerPoint presentation into an accessible HTML presentation, it is recommended that you do not include the transition sounds. While these sounds may add dynamics to your presentation, they often do not add anything to the slide content or the presentation objectives. Also, it is often difficult to obtain these transition sounds since they are not external files but embedded into your presentation.

However, if you have a sound file in your PowerPoint presentation that is critical to the content conveyed by a slide or the presentation objectives, it is important to add this into your HTML presentation.

Either way, before you can reference the sound file in your HTML, you must first locate this sound file so that you can add a hyperlink reference to it in your HTML slide. When you use a sound file in your PowerPoint presentation, there are two options where it may be stored:

• Within the presentation.
• Externally in a file.

When you have a sound file, Slide 11 of the sample PowerPoint Human Computer Interaction
slide has a sound of breaking glass when the text is displayed.like this breaking glass (and the "applause" transition sound on slide 12)

This page, will take the last slide, slide 12, and add it to the end of the BODY section of the HTML presentation. You will add the slide's content and a hyperlink reference to the audio file.

To convert a slide with sound into HTML:

1. Open a text editor, such as NotePad or your preferred web authoring software.
2. Open the HTML file that is a version of the PowerPoint to be converted; for this example, open presentation.htm. Or create an HTML file as outlined in set-up to convert PowerPoint to HTML.
3. Go to the BODY section of the HTML file.
4. Add the slide to the end of the BODY section as it is the last slide of the presentation and comes after all previously created slides.
   
   

   From the sample is the original PowerPoint slide 12 (see Image 42 ).

   
   

   Image 42: Original PowerPoint Slide with Audio Clip
   
   

   Note: It consists of two text boxes (which do not show up in the outline view) and an audio clip that has been inserted into the presentation (the icon in the lower right).

5. Begin by adding the image and title for this HTML slide:

   <!-- Slide 12 -->
<img src="Slide12.jpg" alt="Slide 12">
<H1>Questions?</H1>

6. Now add the content of the slide. The slide's content consists of another text box with a simple paragraph and the audio clip.
    
7. Save your work as an HTML file. For this example, save as presentation.htm. The completed code for converting a Sound Slide (i.e. Slide 12) of the PowerPoint presentation HCI.ppt should be as follows.
   

   Code Sample of Sound Slide:

   <!-- Slide 12 -->
<img src="Slide12.jpg" alt="Slide 12">
<H1>Questions?</H1>

<p>
  OK - have a good weekend.  I'll see you next week!
</p>

<a href="closing_remarks.wav">
  Closing remarks audio file (9 seconds)
</a>

   You have added the paragraph and also the hyperlink referring to the "closing_remarks.wav" file. This is the file that the original PowerPoint slide referred to, so this is the file that you will insert into our HTML presentation.

   Note: When you have an audio clip in your accessible HTML, you must provide a textual transcription of the audio so that people who cannot hear may have access to whatever was spoken in the audio clip. If the audio clip contained sounds, you should also provide a description of the sounds. For more information about how to edit and make accessible audio content in your HTML pages, see the "Making Audio Material Accessible."
8. Open your HTML file in a web browser. The file should display with the slide image, followed by the title and then the slide content (see Image 43 ).
   
   

   Image 43: Converted PowerPoint Slide with Audio Clip
   
   
   You can also view the context of the Sound Slide in the complete conversion of the Sample PPT to HTML (, 520 KB).

Notice that the audio file is referenced via the hyperlink. If you select this hyperlink, the audio material will play.

The next page will discuss how to convert a slide with animation.

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