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LecShare Pro
Producing First eClip in 6 Easy Steps
Why LecShare Pro?
For whom?
For beginners, especially for faculty members who do not need complex
multimedia capabilities, and who want to produce multimedia that is
comfortably web-accessible to those with visual or hearing
disabilities - people whose Web use may depend on screen
reading software.
Easy for Beginners
LecShare Pro is an excellent tool for someone just beginning
to produce Web-accessible multimedia. LecShare Pro is unusually easy to learn and
use. Several other tools are now available for
creating Web-accessible files that include PowerPoint slides
(text and images) and audio synchronized to them. Most
others are much more powerful, flexible, complex and
expensive. Learning and using LecShare Pro first is
also good preparation for evaluating, selecting, and
learning to use more powerful options.
Produce 4 Kinds of Files Simultaneously
You have many choices about the characteristics of the final
file(s) produced as a result of your work: it is easy
and quick to produce 4 different versions in one final step.
Each of these versions can be especially useful for a
slightly different purpose. (See
"Examples of Multiple Formats Produced Simultaneously,
Easily" using LecShare Pro.) LecShare Pro allows you to add audio to
Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to create QuickTime
movies, MPEG-4 Video files (Video Podcasts), Accessible
HTML, and Microsoft Word documents. You can either record
audio through a microphone or import audio files. This
software depends on having a PowerPoint file available for
slides and images.
Accessibility for Those with Limited
Vision
LecShare Pro is exceptional in the way it supports producing
results that are accessible to those with visual impairments
who depend on screen reading software.
LecShare Pro has a feature to both show you where you need to
modify slides and provide you with easy options for fixing
them. Several of the resulting files produced by
LecShare Pro can be
comfortably used by someone dependent on screen reading
tools. If you include enough supplementary text in the
"Lecture Notes" section of the original PowerPoint slide
file, one of the resulting export files can work well for
those with hearing disabilities too.
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A Few
Hints for Beginners - First Use of LecShare Pro
Be sure that Microsoft PowerPoint and
Word are both CLOSED when you begin using LecShare Pro.
Red bars - Alternative Text
LecShare Pro indicates the need for "alternative
text" for photos or images with a red bar. Click on a
slide that has been identified as needing "alternative text"
so that the slide appears in the upper right window.
Then double-click on the red bar in that area.
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More Help with LecShare
Pro
Brief FAQs, and support service contact info from LecShare
Pro
"CheatSheet" for LecShare Pro and YouTube
developed by TLT Group as a Google Document for using
LecShare Pro, especially in conjunction with YouTube.
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Free Trial Version
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Download here.
30 days only; reduced export options; "watermark"
appears on each slide in exported version (see
sample result here); works perfectly well
otherwise. Quite adequate for first usage within TLT
Group workshop about 5-Minute eClips & Brief Hybrid
Workshops. When opening or
using the Free Trial version you will be asked each time to
"register" the software. Each time you should answer "no" or
click "cancel" and that will be acceptable for the 30 days.
Download LecShare Pro Free Trial Converter: If
you are using the free trial version of LecShare Pro and
need to make the result of your work available as a
video via YouTube, you should use this additional free
converter. When you have finished using LecShare
Pro to fix visual accessibility and add audio narration
to your PowerPoint slides, first export the work as a
QuickTime file. Then run the converter on that
file. The resulting file is suitable for easy
upload to YouTube.
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Special Offer:
If you are registered in a TLT Group workshop
related to 5-Minute eClips
and Brief Hybrid Workshops, of if you are in
individual
member of the TLT Group, or if you are part of an
institution that is an
institutional subscriber to the TLT
Group you are eligible for a very significant discount (Half
off the Regular Price for LecShare Pro - Discount Price
$34.50).
Contact Lisa Star (mccurry@tltgroup.org)
about getting this discount when purchasing the
full-function version of LecShare Pro - the procedure is
very easy, quick.
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Purchase Full-Price Full Featured Version
- Click Here.
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