Have you ever wanted to turn your PowerPoint presentation into an animated Gif? Me neither, but now you can with GifDeck. Just upload your file to SlideShare then give the SlideShare URL to GifDeck. Moments later, you’ll have an animated Gif.
I couldn’t think of any real use-cases but the site suggests using it in an e-mail or posting it to Twitter, both of which make some sense to me.
One important note: it will only convert 10 slides. (My original presentation, which I’ll be posting Thursday or Friday, is much longer than the Gif above.)
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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3 Replies to “Tuesday Tech Tip: Gif your PowerPoints”
You can actually create a GIF that displays more than 10 slides by clicking on the gear icon to the right of the submit button and specifying the number of slides you want included in the GIF. There is a bit more of a description of other features in my post: http://carlispina.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/gifdeck/
Thanks! I completely missed that.
Yes, the extra features are kind of hidden away behind that gear. It would be really helpful if the site offered more of an indication of what you can customize when creating your GIF!
You can actually create a GIF that displays more than 10 slides by clicking on the gear icon to the right of the submit button and specifying the number of slides you want included in the GIF. There is a bit more of a description of other features in my post: http://carlispina.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/gifdeck/
Thanks! I completely missed that.
Yes, the extra features are kind of hidden away behind that gear. It would be really helpful if the site offered more of an indication of what you can customize when creating your GIF!