0 tweets   tweet   This is a modest collection of treasured tips on how to combine colors properly and create a compelling palette for your presentation. Let’s imagine. You are to create an awesome presentation. What’s your first thought? It’s probably something like "I should find a superb content!" And you’re right. But there is something just as important as the content - the color. To choose the right one you don’t need to be an ink matcher, just read this article! Not to speak at random, we rely on iSpring table-top book - Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte. "The color sets a tone and helps establish what the audience will expect. It helps communicate what type of journey you will be taking the viewers on" - Nancy Duarte considers. Pick the colors that clearly represent these three things: The audience. Once you have a clear image of your audience you can determine the color that will appeal to it or won’t resonate with it. The industry. There’s a range of clichés associated with different areas and industries. To stand out in your field review color schemes used by your competitors and choose something different. Also avoid colors that are negative in your industry. For example red should be avoided for a financial institution, but would be okay for a blood bank. Your company. No matter if your brand is modern or conservative, the color should represent the essence of your company. Curiously enough Isaac Newton’s discovery can help you with your presentation. Don’t be surprised! Sir Isaac Newton color wheel is an irreplaceable piece of knowledge for a presentation’s creator. The wheel uses three primary colors, red, yellow and blue, spaced evenly apart. Blending those colors creates the full color wheel. Now it’s time for high spot. Here are some general ways of color combination. Enjoy! Monochromatic Use different variations of the same color. Adding a bit of white, black or grey will create a nice contrast. However don’t forget that when shown on the projector, similar colors can be really hard to recognize. Analogous To create a harmonious color scheme select colors that lie next to each other in the wheel. Depending on where exactly they lie they can provide either warm or cool feeling. Complementary Choose colors from the opposite sides of the wheel since they are the most contrasting and can create a really powerful look. Split Complementary It is a variation of the complementary scheme. The difference is that you choose not the opposite color but two colors that lie on either side of it. Triadic To form a vivid look pick three colors equally spaced around the color wheel. Pick either tints or shades of those colors to create unusual variations. Tetradic Two pairs of complementary colors can be used at once. This scheme works better if you select one dominant color and use the tints of others to support the main one. Looking for more multicolored inspiration? Another way to be inspired is to watch cool presentations created by professionals. Inspiration is waiting for you in iSpring colorful demos. Now when you’re inspired and aware of all these tricks, you can use them in practice. Download iSpring Presenter 7 FREE trial and try out all of them with this powerful award-winning tool! We are looking forward to hearing from you! This article is based on the book "Slide:ology" by Nancy Duarte.

7 tweets   tweet   Flipped education is a hot topic since the story of successful flipping at Clintondale High School went public. The very idea of a flipped classroom turns the whole learning process upside down. Homework is not done at home anymore. Students watch teachers’ lectures at home and do the so-called "homework" in class. Teachers record video lessons for students to take at home on their smartphones and tablets or in the school’s computer classroom. In class, they do projects, exercises or lab experiments in small groups receiving constant guidance from the teacher. By the way, you’re also welcome to watch the video on Flipped Education. Everything new, different or unordinary is usually criticized. At the same time flipped education is quite another matter: the only controversial point about it is a way of implementing. So, few if any doubts if it’s worth it or not. Which is not surprising as the results of deploying flipped education are just fantastic! One has only to take a look at this striking example. The Clintondale High School had been designated as among the worst 5 percent in Michigan. That year, more than half of ninth graders had failed science, and almost had half failed math. To change the situation for the better, Clintondale’s ninth-grade teachers decided to flip their classes. The results were dramatic: the failure rate in English dropped from 52 percent to 19 percent; in math, it dropped from 44 percent to 13 percent; in science, from 41 percent to 19 percent; and in social studies, from 28 percent to 9 percent. In 2011, Clintondale flipped completely — every grade, every class. With flipping, failure rate dropped from approximately 30% to under 10%. Graduation rates rose dramatically, and are now over 90 percent. College attendance went from 63 percent in 2010 to 80 percent in 2012. Flipping a classroom changes several things. One is what students do at home. The school uses videos, audio files and readings as homework. Many students do not ask questions in class, worried they will look dumb. But they can watch a video over and over to get things right without a fear. Flipped classroom frees up class time for hands-on work. Students learn by doing and asking questions. Instead of presenting the information in class and having students work on projects at home, where they don’t necessarily have support, in class, one-on-one or in small groups, teachers can help and guide them through the learning process. Students can also help each other, which benefits both the advanced and less advanced learners. Flipping also changes the distribution of teacher time. In a traditional class, the teacher engages with the students who ask questions — but it’s those who don’t ask who need the most attention. Now it’s a lot harder for students to hide. The teacher can see pretty much where every student’s understanding is and how to help them. Thanks to highly positive feedback flipped education gains popularity and has a fair chance for existence. However it’s never just black and white. Don’t lose your head inspired by breathtaking statistics. First of all make sure that this is the right thing to do in your case - both for you and your learners. What do you think? This blog post is based on articles devoted to Flipped Education by Tina Rosenberg, the Pulitzer Prize winner.

1 tweets   tweet   At the moment iSpring is optimizing the product line. Starting March 1st, iSpring Converter will no longer be available. We will continue to fully support Converter users till the end of 2014. Shortly iSpring Converter will be entirely replaced with iSpring Pro. You are welcome to upgrade your Converter license or to get license of iSpring Pro or iSpring Presenter right now! Only till January 31st you can do it at an exclusively discounted price. Contact us for details. Both iSpring Pro and iSpring Presenter include all of iSpring Converter capabilities and provide even wider options for e-Learning authoring. Take a look at this comparison chart and decide which tool is the best bet for you! Features iSpring Converter iSpring Pro iSpring Presenter Convert PowerPoint to HTML5 + + + Design presentations for all platforms and devices + + Add video and audio narrations + + Advanced, fully customizable player + + Create interactive quizzes and surveys + These robust iSpring tools are available at an unheard-of discount till January 31st only! iSpring Pro HTML5 and Flash presentations with narrations in PowerPoint Download FREE Trial -> iSpring Presenter Courses and video lectures with interactive quizzes in HTML5 Download FREE Trial ->

2 tweets   tweet   Tell us who inspired your love of learning! One lucky Facebook poster will win a 6-month subscription to iSpring Rocket. Was it a parent who made a special meal on nights before big exams? Or a teacher who wrote "Excellent work!" at the top of your essay? Or perhaps it was Carl Sagan, the American astronomer and astrophysicist who ignited a passion and wonder in so many through his books and TV series. POST your source of inspiration on our iSpring Facebook page and SHARE our question for others on your own Facebook page. Everyone who posts an answer and then shares the question will be entered to win a 6-month subscription to iSpring Rocket. "Our passion for learning … is our tool for survival." — Carl Sagan. One more tool for survival is a robust solution for e-Learning authoring — iSpring Rocket. Launch your PowerPoint presentations to a new level: with iSpring Rocket you can quickly create mobile-ready e-Learning courses. Add quizzes, narrations, and publish your course from PowerPoint to the iSpring Hosted LMS  with just one click. Invite people to take your course and track detailed results. Propel your PowerPoint content into inspiring e-Learning content with iSpring Rocket! Test drive iSpring Rocket for FREE -> Enter the contest, POST, SHARE & YOU COULD BE THE LUCKY WINNER of iSpring Rocket! Hurry, there’s not much time left! The winner will be selected on Friday, January 31, 2014.

6 tweets   tweet   It’s never too late to learn. And business is no exception. Corporate training and onboarding can really give a kickstart to your business. And iSpring can help you with that. Of course iSpring is famous for its’ high-end PowerPoint-based e-Learning software, but it also can be successfully used in business. Effective attention-grabbing courses for staff training and professional business presentations for expos and exhibitions are made in no time with iSpring. And that can become a valuable addition to your HR and marketing. So, how can iSpring be used in business? Let’s take a look. Corporate training and onboarding Here’s what you can do with iSpring to boost your corporate communications: create compelling content: courses, video presentations, learning games, quizzes and surveys easily master iSpring user-friendly interface and become a guru of e-Learning authoring publish your content to a destination of your choice view your courses and quizzes on any device: desktop, laptop, tablets and smartphones track detailed statistics on quiz results, manage both learners and content "We needed both to conduct corporate training and attest the employees in a rather short period of time. We managed to do it with the help of iSpring QuizMaker 7. We designed an educative quiz that helped learners to collect the information, arrange it and instantly correct their mistakes instead of just testing them. We’ve reached the point where the employees studied the new high-technology product in 20-30 minutes. They also had an access to their results and mistakes and clearly demonstrated the actual level of knowledge" - Ivan, Business Coach at Portalux Sales and Promotion Even a novice can easily create professionally-looking commercial slide deck or a Flash banner with iSpring. iSpring supports both HTML5 and Flash formats that allows easily upload iSpring-created promos to your corporate website. It will be available on any device and will work for you 24/7. With iSpring you can: enrich your presentation with voice overs and video narrations - tell the world about your product in a new, entertaining way fully customize the presentation player according to your corporate style view your presentation on any device including iPads and iPhones, and more! As a result - bright and eye-catching business presentation, just like this one: As an example we have created this banner in PowerPoint and converted it to a combined Flash + HTML5 format with iSpring Presenter 7. It took us about 10 minutes. Got inspired? Download iSpring Presenter FREE Trial and create your own Flash banner or any kind of interactive marketing material. Here is a short article on how to create a Flash banner with iSpring -> We are looking forward to hearing from you!

4 tweets   tweet   We’re always curious about what other people think. Anticipating your curiosity we’re here to share some of our clients’ reviews. Here is just a couple of remarkable examples. iSpring is loved by thousands of people from all over the world for its versatile set of features and ease of use. Take a look at these people and their experience with iSpring software and be inspired! Seamless PowerPoint to HTML5 conversion "I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had developed a modern version of their software that uses HTML5 vs. Flash. I downloaded the free trial from their site, installed it, and opened my PowerPoint presentation. The ease of use of this plug-in is impeccable, I simply navigated to the iSpring tab and clicked "Publish". I was then presented with a variety of options to choose from in terms of how I would like the presentation to look. iSpring provides you with the ability to have a slide overview sidebar with optional notes for each slide." - Matthew May You will find the full review by Matthew May with a couple of cool iSpring-created presentations here. Extremely easy-to-use "In the past, it would take hundreds of hours of studying computer programming and game design to create the kind of software I’m able to build in PowerPoint. iSpring software opens the world of computer programming to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. The button for converting a presentation is streamlined into Microsoft PowerPoint so I can easily create Flash whenever I’m ready. Once the file is finished converting, I can immediately upload it on a website or use it on my computer for class." - Elliott Hindman Funny zombie game-like presentations created by Elliot Hindman and the full review are waiting for you on Eliott Hidman’s website. Now when you know how people use iSpring to reach their goals you can test out iSpring software by yourself. You are welcome to test drive iSpring. Remember to share your experience with us! We are looking forward to hearing from you!

1 tweets   tweet   We are glad to congratulate you on the most romantic holiday of the year! Happy Valentine’s Day! We wish you a wonderful Valentine’s Day filled with love and romance! Spend it with your loved ones and don’t be afraid to show how you really feel about them! By the way we’re here to help you express your feelings! You’re very welcome to use Free iSpring Romantic Templates -> This set of lovely free PowerPoint templates will help you to easily create unique greeting e-cards and slideshows with your message of love. Create your own unique Valentine’s Day card with iSpring! Express your feelings in your own way! Love and be loved! And remember: iSpring loves you! Let the love be with you!

4 tweets   tweet   "Eyes are the windows to the soul." There’s more than a bit of truth to this old saying. When you speak to your audience, you want to project honesty, sincerity, and earnestness, and eye contact is essential for all of these. Any professional TV studio will have a person on hand whose job is to hold cue cards for the presenter in line-of-sight with the camera so the illusion of eye contact with the audience is maintained. With iSpring’s Narration Editor, you can achieve the same result in your own studio single-handedly! Working on a laptop with a built-in camera? Simply drag the Notes section to the top of the screen and start recording! Wherever your camera is, that’s where your notes (and thus your eyes) should be. There’s another way you can engage your viewers by interacting directly with your content. To get attention to a certain content item you can gesticulate just like a weatherman to show you viewers what on this slide is worth their attention most of all. Do you have any pro camera tips for your fellow presenters? Leave them in the comments below! Happy narrating!

1 tweets   tweet   Is a picture really worth a thousand words? How about an entire multimedia course you’ve meticulously crafted with PowerPoint and iSpring, with all its sights and sounds and texts and interactions? When it comes to selling your work, putting a price tag on it is the hard part - the rest is easy with iSpring Online! To make this step of the e-Learning process easier for you we have prepared this article: Enabling E-Commerce on your iSpring Online account → Learn how to profit from what you really love to do. Share your experience with us! We are looking forward to hearing from you!

1 tweets   tweet   It’s common knowledge that when you send anything over the Internet, you take the risk that it will show up at the wrong time, on the wrong site, and available for all to see. Worse yet, when it comes to intellectual property, the nightmare of any creator is to see his or her work plagiarized and stripped of any mark of original authorship. What kind of control would you like to have over your content? iSpring provides you with a wide range of protection features - you can choose what suits you best and meets your particular requirements. You are welcome to read about iSpring’s advanced content protection options in the newly published article in iSpring Knowledge Base. Start reading "How to protect your content with iSpring" → Hope this piece of content was useful for you. Follow the instructions and protect your unique work from being copied! Protection features are available for you in iSpring Pro, iSpring Presenter and other iSpring products. Do you have something to share with us? We are looking forward to hearing from you!