Freeplane/C3/Slide-Presentation/English
Visual Cue | Narration |
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Title Slide |
Welcome to the tutorial on
Slide Presentation |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to,
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System Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using
Ubuntu Linux v16.04 OS Freeplane v1.7.10 Firefox web browser v59 |
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Pre-requisites https://www.spoken-tutorial.org/ |
To practise this tutorial,
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Code Files |
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Part of slide. | Slide presentation is often used in classrooms. |
Go to Desktop. | I have saved the input file on the Desktop. |
Open earth-astronomy-weather.mm. | Open the earth-astronomy-weather dot mm file in Freeplane. |
Select the parent node. | Select the parent node. |
Check box for View, View Settings, Spotlight. | Go to, View, then to View Settings.
Click the check box for Spotlight in the sub-menu. Observe that the background changes to grey color. |
Hover mouse on root node, then, Earth's axis of rotation, solstice and Equinox. | The selected node is highlighted in a rectangular spotlight. |
Show the spotlight on the map. | Spotlight helps to draw the attention of the audience to the selected node. |
Cursor on the map. | However, other parts of the map are also visible, with less bright surroundings. |
Click on Tools, Preferences. | Let’s adjust the Presentation properties.
Click on Tools and select Preferences. |
Point to the dialog box.
Click on the Presentation tab. |
Preferences dialog box opens.
Click on the Presentation tab. |
Cursor on Presentation tab. | Notice the many options for presentation. |
Cursor on Presentation tab. | Let's change the slide background color. |
Click on the grey rectangle next to Spotlight background color. | Click on the grey rectangle next to Spotlight background color. |
Show the dialogue box.
Pick a sky blue shade in Swatches tab. |
In the Swatches tab, I will pick a sky blue shade for the slide background. |
Click on the RGB tab. | Click on the RGB tab. |
Point to the Alpha option. | Notice the alpha value is at 255.
Alpha option changes the transparency level of the background. |
Click on the OK button. | Click on the OK button in the box. |
Click on Ok in the Preferences dialog box. | Then, click on the OK button again on the Preference dialog box. |
Show warning pop-up message. | A warning pop-up message, prompting to restart Freeplane appears. |
Cursor on the screen. | You may or may not get this message depending on your system. |
Click on Ok to in the pop-up window. | Click on Ok to close the pop-up window .
The changed color setting, takes effect for me, without restarting Freeplane. |
Click on Tools, Preferences. | Again, open the preferences dialog box. |
Choose Preferences tab.
Click on the grey rectangle next to Spotlight background color and choose RGB tab. |
Again open the spotlight background color dialogue box and go to the RGB tab.
Let's change Alpha value and see the result. |
Drag the Alpha slider to 111. | Drag the Alpha slider to 111.
You may also use the triangle button on the right side. |
Click on OK button in the box. | Click on the OK button in the box. |
Click on Ok in the Preferences dialog box. | Then, click on the OK button again on the Preference dialog box. |
Hover mouse over nodes to see only selected node. | Notice that only the highlighted node is visible.
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Cursor on the map. | Let us set up slides and choose visible nodes for each slide. |
Click on the Tool panel. | Click on the Tool panel. |
Hover mouse next to Tool Panel, Presentations, Presentations -/ - . | In the Tool Panel, select Presentations tab.
In Presentations section notice this sign (-/-) as seen here. |
Cursor next to -/- sign. | This means, I have no presentations set up now. |
Hover over the icons to show tool tips on icon function. | Hover over the icons to show tooltips on icon function. |
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Icons and Tooltips |
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Click on New presentation icon | Click on the New presentation icon to add a new presentation. |
Type name as astronomy-weather, press Enter | I will name it Weather and press Enter. |
Hover mouse next to 1/1. | The sign changes to 1/1. |
In the Slides section, hover mouse next to -/-. | Currently, this presentation has no slides. |
Click on the first icon to add a New slide. | In the Slides section, click on the first icon to add a New slide. |
For name, type Title. | Type Title for name of the slide as seen here. |
Under Slide content, click on the second icon from left to add slide content. | Under Slide content, click on the second icon from left to add slide content. |
Point to the tooltip for second icon, top show, Add currently selected nodes to the slide. | The tooltip for the icon is Add currently selected nodes to the slide. |
Hover mouse over the root node. | Notice that I have selected the root node in the canvas. |
Show the added content on the screen. | Now, contents of the selected nodes get added as the slide contents. |
Point mouse around green box on the root node. | A green box appears around the nodes added as contents in the slide. |
Hover mouse next to Set zoom icon. | We can also set the zoom level using the Set zoom button.
I will not change it now.
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Click on the first icon to add New Slide. | Now, let's add the 2nd slide as before. |
Name this slide Topics. | I will name this slide as Topics. |
Select all child nodes of the root node.
Press and hold the Ctrl and click all the child nodes. |
Select all child nodes of the root node for slide content in the canvas. |
Click on the icon for Add currently selected nodes to the slides.
Point to the green coloured border around the child nodes. |
Click on the second icon in the Slide section to add content as we did earlier.
The selected nodes get added as contents of the slide. |
Check the box for show only selected nodes. | Check the box for show only selected nodes to highlight more options. |
Check the box for show ancestors. | Here, check the box to Show ancestors. |
Cursor on the Tool panel. | It will also show the parent node also in the presentation. |
Add a slide, and name it Axis of rotation. | In the Slides section add a third slide and name it Axis of rotation. |
Check box for show only selected nodes.
Check box to show ancestors. |
Check box for show only selected nodes.
Then, check the box to show ancestors. |
Select child nodes of Earth's axis of rotation and add to contents. | Select the child nodes of Earth's axis of rotation.
Add them as contents for the Axis of rotation slide. |
Add one more slide and name it Eclipse. | I will make 4 slides in this presentation.
Add one more slide and name it as Eclipse. |
Select the Child node of Eclipse node for content. | For contents, add the child node of Eclipse node. |
Pause the video as needed and create more slides as desired to practice. | |
Hover mouse next to Add slide and Add contents icons. | Give a title name for each slide, so that topic is clear from the slide name. |
Hover mouse on the dropdown showing Eclipse. | Let’s rearrange the slide order or sequence.
I want the Eclipse slide to be at the second position. |
Hover mouse next to slide up and slide down icon.
From the Slides pulldown, select the Eclipse slide. |
From the Slides pulldown, select the Eclipse slide.
Tooltip on the third icon in the Slides section moves the slide up. |
Click on third icon, which is up arrow and set position till it shows 3/4. | Choose the slide, and click once on this up arrow.
Now the position shows as 3/4. This means it is the 3rd slide among the four. |
Cursor on the down arrow. | Notice that, Slide down function is also available.
Now, let's play the presentation and test it. |
Cursor on the Play button in Tool panel.
Hide the Tool panel. |
Let’s use the menu options for this instead of the options in the Tool panel.
Hide the Tool panel. |
Click on Navigate, Presentation. | Click on Navigate, Presentation.
Notice the many options in the submenu along with the shortcut keys. |
lids presentation mode is seen. | Click on I will choose Play from the first slide.
Display goes to slide presentation mode. |
Press F5 and Control+F5 and show browsing through slides. | To browse forward through the slide, use the F5 key.
To browse backward, press Control-F5. |
Menu alternate and options are seen under Navigate, Presentation. | |
Move node in canvas, using up and down arrow key. | Up and down arrow keys to move the nodes in the canvas. |
Zoom in and zoom out on the slide. | User can adjust the zoom level as in the concept map.
Hold down the control key and use the mouse scroll wheel for this. |
Browse through the presentation. | Browse through the presentation and go to the Eclipse slide. |
Use the arrow keys, to browse through the node. | Use left and right arrow keys to browse through the node in the slide. |
Click on the video link. | Let's play the video link in the Eclipse slide by clicking on the link. |
Show the web browser opening. | Web browser opens and plays video as it is a link to an Internet site. |
Play the video for a few seconds. | The video can be played, if you have a working internet connection. |
Close the web browser. | Close the web browser after a few seconds. |
Press the ESC key. | We are back on the Freeplane slide show.
Press the ESC key to exit the presentation mode. |
Scroll down the Tool panel and click on Preferences. | Scroll down the Tool panel.
Click on Preferences to open the dialogue box. |
Choose the Presentation tab. | Choose the Presentation tab in the newly opened dialogue box. |
Hover mouse next to 'exportedPresentation'. | Notice a directory named, 'exportedPresentation'.
Freeplane will create this directory, to store the exported images. |
Cursor on the map. | You may change this default setting if desired. |
Click on Cancel. | I will not make any changes here and click on Cancel. |
Point mouse to Export current presentation to PNG images. | Notice Export current presentation to PNG images option in the Tool panel. |
Click on Export current presentation to PNG images. | Click on it to create images for the slide.
Allow the process to complete. |
Cursor on the map. | A file manager folder may open to view the exported files. |
Press Ctrl+S.
Click on File, Quit Freeplane. |
Press control S to save the map.
Choose File, Quit Freeplane, to quit Freeplane. |
Go to Desktop.
Select exportedPresentation and press Enter. |
Go to Desktop and notice the newly created folder.
Select it and Press Enter to view the contents. Notice a directory with the map name, astronomy. |
Press Enter. | Press Enter and go to the directory.
Let’s browse through the exported image files. |
Close the images. | I will close the images. |
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Summary |
Now, let's summarize what we learned in this tutorial.
We,
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Assignment |
For the assignment activity, please do the following.
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Spoken Tutorial Project |
This video summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
The spoken tutorial team,
For more details, please write to us. |
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Forum for specific questions |
Please post your timed queries in this forum. |
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Acknowledgement |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India. |
This is Rani from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining. |