When I create PowerPoint presentations with linked videos or audios, I had to make sure to bring the media files along with my presentation when I went out to speak. Keynote, on the other hand, embeds all the media files right within the Keynote file itself, so I only have to take one (large) file with me! This is a huge relief for those of us that were always worrried that we might forget one of the linked videos for our PowerPoint presentations!
When Keynote for the iPad came out, I was very excited since it was very easy to move my Keynote files from my computer through iTunes, iWork, or my iDisk to Keynote on the iPad. All the sound files, movies and the standard transitions and timings worked great on the iPad. And, once the latest version of Keynote for the iPad came out, and I could see my presenter notes on the iPad while presenting, I began to present directly from the iPad with the VGA-out connector!
The one thing I had not done was create a Keynote presentation on the iPad itself. I purchased the Visual Quickstart Guide, Keynote for the iPad, by Tom Negrino and found that it is really well-written. As one that learns well from manuals, I read it through it and tried some things out.
However, an iPad app, Tutor for Keynote for iPad by Noteboom Productions, was recommended by my friend Midge Frazel, and I decided to demo it. It is made up of a series of screencast tutorial videos and is chunked beautifully! The speaker's voice is calm and low-key, and the tutorials are very easy to follow.
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| Screenshot from Tutor for Keynote for the iPad |
The screencasts are broken up into the follow chapters:
- Introduction
- Presentation Sample
- Presentation Sample Close Up
- Keynote Interface
- Virtual Keyboard
- Themes
- Working with Slides
- Skipping Slides
- Working with Objects
- Deleting Slides and Objects
- Working with Text
- Working with Media
- Working with Tables
- Working with Charts
- Working with Shapes
- Hyperlinks
- Copy and Paste
- Transitions
- Magic Move Transition
- Using Builds
- Presentation Notes
- Laser Pointer
- Sharing
- Conclusion