No More PC?

A. Project Objectives
Run Your Presentation Without A PC is a project that aims to come up with an innovative-alternative for doing electronic presentations that can improve and maximize the use of TV in a classroom for the purpose of efficiency of learning and teaching.

B. Description and Rationale of the Project
Run Your Presentation Without A PC is a self-paced tutorial modules and trainor's manual that will guide the users/trainors the step-by-step on how to convert PowerPoint presentations to play on a digital still camera and view them on a TV screen. Today digital cameras come with video-out cables that connect to a TV monitor's video input jack, you are no longer tied up by PC in running your presentation. A Digital still camera does not only capture pictures to be used for presentations. It also serves as digital storage and a player for PowerPoint slideshow. But how is it done? You maybe are thinking that you could simply save your PowerPoint file to a digital still camera and it would just run. It does not work that way. But it is not that difficult. Of course you still need a computer to create your presentations. However, when you display your presentations, a computer is no longer needed. But how is it done?

Simply Run Your Presentation Without A PC which consists of the following six modules on:
* Presenting PowerPoint slides run without a computer
* Optimizing PowerPoint slides on TV
* Resizing PowerPoint slides to 8.89 x 6.67 inches (or 640 x 480 pixels)
* Converting PowerPoint slides in JPEG File Interchange Format
* Storing PowerPoint slides on a digital camera
* Viewing the PowerPoint slides on TV with a digital camera

Why Run Your Presentation Without A PC? It is an excellent tutorial module for:
* Showing your presentations without the need for a computer
* Offering you cost-effective presentation digital appliance and method
* Providing you an alternative for instruction delivery
* Designing more effective visual aid for presentation
* Creating your new learning and teaching materials
* Maximizing your class time and minimizing equipment failure
* Increasing the speed with which your students acquire knowledge, learn more and better
* Helping you learn new skills in instruction and learning materials development
* Giving your presentations more of a TV feel (and a movie feel)
* Sharing your slideshows to your colleagues and students through digital cameras or memory cards

C. Output
Each module is laid out through the following sections: 1) Title, 2) Topics, 3) Objectives, 4) Discussion, and 5) Summary:
* Section 1 is basically a short description that provides you a clear idea of the module.
* Section 2 is the perspective of the module which gives you a brief outline of the matters to be dealt with and presenting you what exactly the module intends to explore and demonstrate.
* Section 3 refers to the objectives that work as guidelines on what specific results being expected from you as module users/trainors
* Section 4 is the content of the whole lesson where instructions and screen shots explain the concepts and take you step by step visually through each procedure. This allows you to engage in performing and learning with ease, speed, flexibility and enjoyment through varied tasks.
* Section 5 is the recap of the major concepts and procedures that are presented and the methods that are covered in the discussion section

Run Your Presentation Without A PC has the following proposed table of contents:
* Module 1: Presenting Without A Computer
* Module 2: Optimizing for TV
* Module 3: Resizing to 640 x 480
* Module 4: Converting in JPEG
* Module 5: Storing on Digital Camera
* Module 6: Viewing on TV with Digital Camera

D. Target Date of Accomplishment
* Planning and Conceptualization >>>December 2, 2005
* Actual Development >>>January 13, 2006
* Pilot-testing and evaluation >>> February 3, 2006
* Revision and Editing >>> February 17, 2006
* Implementation (Final Testing) >>>February 24, 2006
* Finalization and Submission of Output >>>March 3, 2006