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#364 Sway [8/8]: Create outline from Sway or Powerpoint

This is the final post in our Sway series. Do you like Sway so far? Why not leave a comment below? In this video we look at generating an outline in Sway either from a PowerPoint file or by adding a topic and letting Sway generate an outline for us.  Once Sway creates the outline we… Continue reading #364 Sway [8/8]: Create outline from Sway or Powerpoint

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#358 Sway [7/8]: Remix and Re-style

This video is the 7th in our Sway series and demonstrates how you can edit your Sway’s layout and style. You can adjust the look and feel and adapt the font. You can hit the magic button and trust in a sway “Mix” or adapt that if you’re not happy with the result. This video… Continue reading #358 Sway [7/8]: Remix and Re-style

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#356 Sway [6/8]: Adding image groups

This video is the 6th in our Sway series and demonstrates how you can set up slideshows or video galleries. Sway allows you easily to group content together and present it in a gallery. With just a few clicks you can have an image gallery in grid, deck or sweep style and have it on… Continue reading #356 Sway [6/8]: Adding image groups

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#348 Sway [5/8]: Adding text cards

This is the fifth post in our Sway series. Do you like Sway so far? Why not leave a comment below? In this video we look at adding and formatting text cards in Sway.  The text editor in Sway is very straightforward and requires little customisation. For the less confident, if you can format a Word… Continue reading #348 Sway [5/8]: Adding text cards

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#344 Sway [4/8]: Setting image focus points

This is the fourth post in our Sway series. This video demonstrates how to adjust your images in your presentation so that you can focus the attention of your audience on a particular element of the image to create interest and movement. It’s as simple as four clicks. Featured image “Sway” courtesy of Bala Sivakumar released under CC… Continue reading #344 Sway [4/8]: Setting image focus points

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#332 Sway [2/8]: Layout with cards

As we saw in the previous Sway video, Sway is a new type of presentation tool released by Microsoft. Sway has some really great features to add pizazz to your presentations, including being able to embed videos, documents and audio clips into your presentations and embed the whole presentation into your VLE. In this video… Continue reading #332 Sway [2/8]: Layout with cards

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#328 Sway [1/8]: Overview of Sway and getting started

Do you want to funkify your presentations without having to learn something completely new? Sway might be for you! You can adapt your existing PowerPoints into stand alone presentations and embed or share them quickly and easily. Upload a Powerpoint or Word document and quickly and easily adapt into a Sway presentation. This video sets… Continue reading #328 Sway [1/8]: Overview of Sway and getting started