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=Tips and Tutorials=

[|Beyond Bullet Points] (blog)

= = [|Powerpoint Is Evil] and [|Powerpoint Is Not Evil]

[|Presenting with Powerpoint: 10 Dos and Don'ts]

[|Presentation Excellence] (ppt) and follow-up article [|Great Presentations/Great Comments]

[|Presentation Revolution: Revolutionizing Presentations Through Storytelling] (blog)

[|Presentation Zen] (blog about presentations)

[|Really Bad Powerpoint and How to Avoid It]

[|Scoring Power Points]

[|Slide Magnet - Make Your Presentations Magnetic]

We've probably all sat through a tortuously long and boring presentation featuring someone reading from bullet points on a slide. Don't let the next bad presenter be you or your students, visit [|Slide Magnet]. [|Slide Magnet] is a website full of free advice to help make your slide presentations more effective and make you a better presenter. [|Slide Magnet] has a feature called the Deck of the Day which is chosen as an exemplar for good slideshow design. Even offers advice on how to dress for different types of presentations. media type="custom" key="3500772"

=PowerPoint Resources= [|Make a PowerPoint Screensaver] Screensaver [|Extract Pictures & Audio from PowerPoint] [|Pictures & Audio] [|Add SWF Screencasts to PowerPoint Slides] Screencasts [|Upload PowerPoint Slides to YouTube] Pp->YouTube [|What Are The Best FONTS for Making PowerPoint Presentation Slides]FONTS

= = =Video and Slide Tutorials= [|Death by Powerpoint and How to Avoid It] (slideshow)

[|Dodging Bullets (in Presentations)] (Slideshow)

[|Everything You Need to Know About Presentations from Forrest Gump]

[|How Not to Use Powerpoint] (video/comedy)

[|Powerpoint Extreme Makeover] (video)

 =Insert YouTube Videos= How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations [|Written by Amit Agarwal on November 13, 2008] Before you embed YouTube videos in PowerPoint slides, always think of the medium(s) you’ll use to deliver that presentation. Tutorial: How to embed YouTube Videos in PowerPoint It’s not uncommon to see presenters in conferences struggling to get the video right thus breaking the entire rhythm of their presentation. The problem could be due to poor Internet connectivity or computer missing the right codecs or something else. Now you can easily **save yourself from getting into such embarrassing situations** by planning ahead. Will you be presenting to a live audience in a Wi-fi enabled conference room with good Internet speed or are there any chances that you may have to deliver the presentation video in an offline environment (like a classroom)? The reason I asked this is because each situation requires a different approach. Let’s see how we tackle each of them:

Embed YouTube Videos Directly into PowerPoint
This is the easiest approach and recommended if are sure that the presentation venue will have great connectivity. Download the YouTube Wizard plug-in from [|skp.mvps.org] and upon installation, this will add a new "Insert YouTube Video" command to your PowerPoint Toolbar.

Insert YouTube videos to your PowerPoint presentations from the menu You simply have to type the URL of the YouTube video and follow the wizard to add the YouTube video player in your current slide. You can resize as well as reposition the player anywhere on the slide.

Play YouTube Videos in PowerPoint without Internet
While the above solution works great, the only problem is that it streams live videos so an internet connection is required to playback the video during the slideshow. If you plan to deliver a presentation without internet, take the following approach. First download the YouTube video locally in either Windows Media or AVI format since **PowerPoint doesn’t understand the default FLV or MP4 formats of YouTube**.

Add YouTube videos for offline PowerPoint Presentations You can either use [|Zamzar.com] or [|MediaConverter.org] to save any YouTube video as an AVI file – I prefer Media Converter since it supports in-browser conversion while Zamzar requires your email addressing where they send the link to converted video. Related Trick: [|Find High Resolution Video Clips on YouTube] Once the video is saved as an AVI or WMV file on your computer, go to Insert –> Movie –> "Movie from file" to put the YouTube video in the current slide.

Get Videos from Google Docs into PowerPoint
Now consider another possible case – you spent lot of effect preparing an elaborate presentation inside Google Docs with several YouTube clips but how do you import all this into PowerPoint. While Google Docs does provide an "Export as PPT" option, the problem with this format is that it converts all embedded YouTube clips into static images which is something you don’t want.

Insert YouTube videos from Google Docs into PowerPoint There’s however a simple workaround – just publish that Google Docs presentation as an HTML slideshow and then insert it like a [|web page in PowerPoint] using the [|liveweb] plug-in. Thus you can play YouTube clips inside PowerPoint though they are part of your Google Docs presentation. Another advantage of this approach is that if you change any of the clip in your original Google Docs presentation, it will be reflected in the PowerPoint presentation as well.