On-screen (and via monitor) break timer??

[Michelle York]

I was at a conference today and the presenter had a Mac and was using
Power Point for the presentation. At break times, he had a cool
onscreen (and on monitor projection) timer that would count-down the
time left for the break. It looked like a stopwatch. It could be set
for various time frames--five minutes, 2 minutes, 1 min. 45 sec, among
various other time frames. It also started ticking aloud as it neared
the end so that audience members had an auditory reminder that time was
almost up.

I thought that it looked like something he set up WITHIN PowerPoint,
but when I got home to try to find it on my own, I didn't see anything
like this.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there anything like this within
PowerPoint or do you think that it was a separate program of some sort?


Anyway, just curious because it could be a very useful tool when
presenting to large groups.

 

[sjohnson717]

I was at a conference today and the presenter had a Mac and was using
Power Point for the presentation. At break times, he had a cool
onscreen (and on monitor projection) timer that would count-down the
time left for the break. It looked like a stopwatch. It could be set
for various time frames--five minutes, 2 minutes, 1 min. 45 sec, among
various other time frames. It also started ticking aloud as it neared
the end so that audience members had an auditory reminder that time was
almost up.

I have done this too. It's a Powerpoint presentation that has one slide
for each image and animation on a timer. I have 20 slides with a one
minute "go to next slide" timer. You can download mine at
http://www.productmarketing.com/productmarketing/files/timer.ppt?1

Steve Johnson
Pragmatic Marketing

 

[buck_brown]

Sounds like the Dashboard Widget Stopwatch. Did it look like this?

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Status-Info/Stopwatch.shtml

 

[Michelle York]

No, that wasn't it. I asked the presenter today at Day 2 of the
conference and I got a copy of it from him. It was a PPT file that a
Jeff White had created. I searched for it on the web, but his site is
not up right now, so I'm glad that I got the copy another way. Let me
know if you're interested and I can attach it to anyone who might be
interested.