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=== Creating a slide presentation (''LibreOffice Impress'') ===

=== Creating a slide presentation (''LibreOffice Impress'') ===

A slide presentation is a useful method of sharing information, or in training or teaching. Once your text document on OER is fully complete (You will continue to add text and resources in other formats, in the subsequent sections), you can bring the highlights of the content on slides in bullet points. You can embed images, audio links, video links in the presentation. You can do a ‘slide show’ of this presentation while engaging your learners.

A slide presentation is a useful method of sharing information, or in training or teaching. While a text document is useful as a descriptive resource, a presentation can be more useful as a summarized view.  A presentation can be created from scratch or as a summary of a text OER.  Like in a text document, you can embed images, audio links, video links in the presentation. You can do a ‘slide show’ of this presentation.

[[File:COL_-_Opening_LibreOffice_Impress.png|thumb|450x450px|Libroffice Impress start menu]]

[[File:COL_-_Opening_LibreOffice_Impress.png|thumb|450x450px|Libroffice Impress start menu]]

# Freemind is an alternative to Freeplane for making concept maps. Its features and interface is similar to Freeplane.

# Freemind is an alternative to Freeplane for making concept maps. Its features and interface is similar to Freeplane.

# An alternative to LibreOffice for creating text resources and slide presentations is OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org also has a similar Writer and Impress applications.

# An alternative to LibreOffice for creating text resources and slide presentations is OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org also has a similar Writer and Impress applications.

# gedit is a plain text editor. If you are copying content from a website into your LibreOffice Writer document and the formatting is very messed up, you could instead copy from the website and paste into a gedit file and then copy from the gedit file to your LibreOffice Writer document, this will remove all formatting and help you organize the text more easily.  

# gedit is a plain text editor. If you are copying content from a website into your LibreOffice Writer document and the formatting will get lost.  You could instead copy from the website and paste into a gedit file and then copy from the gedit file to your LibreOffice Writer document, this will remove all formatting and help you organize the text more easily.  

# LibreOffice Impress is also available on Microsoft Windows, on <nowiki>http://www.libreoffice.org/download/download</nowiki>. LibreOffice Impress is part of the LibreOffice suite on Windows.

# LibreOffice Impress is also available on Microsoft Windows, on <nowiki>http://www.libreoffice.org/download/download</nowiki>. LibreOffice Impress is part of the LibreOffice suite on Windows.

# In Android Mobiles we can view text documents through "OpenDocumentReader" App or WPS Office App

# In Android Mobiles we can view text documents through "OpenDocumentReader" App or WPS Office App

See [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Annexure|Annexure]] for more information on alternative applications and platforms.

See [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Annexure|Annexure]] for more information on alternative applications and platforms.

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