Deciding what to use the iPod for ....

I have been researching the many uses of the iPod, so the basis of this blog is to document my journey in using the iPod as a resource in the class room. I have been logging my PC loaded with my powerpoint presentions to the class room for ages, and have been looing for a way to reduce the amount of resources that I have to carry.

I decided that my iPod would allow me to reduce these resources. I could load my presentations onto the iPod and plug it into the lite pro (projector) and run them directly.

I admit that making the presentations in Microsoft Powerpoint is easy once you have the hang of it, the challenge was importing them to the iPod.

After stumbling about for a few hours, and then hitting the internet is search of answers, I found that you have to save the Powerpoint presenation as a JPG file, not as a presentation.

How to save the presentation to iPod format:

Before starting I created 2 new files on my PC to save my presenations in, 1 file for normal presentations and another for the iPod presentations.

1. create your presentation normally
2. when ready to save, save a normal version as a presentation into your presentation file.
3. open your presentation and again select save as, save as a JPG into your iPod file.

You should now have 2 files the same, 1 x powerpoint presentation and 1 x iPod JPG file. I did this as I did not want to loose any of my work ...being a beginner I just knew I would stuff it up somewhere and loose the original or corrupt the file or something like that, so at least I would have a backup.

Having played with this a few times and found how hard it was, I have made an easier visual reference version in a later entry; How to convert your Powerpoint Presentations ready to import to your iPod

Now I have 2 files, 1 I can use on a PC and another to use on the iPod, the next challenge is to transport the JPG file to the iPod.