Gregory Yankey Fall 2012 Professional Development

 Youtube  TED.com  video.google.com  Snagfilms.com

 Use the standard color schemes. Don’t get creative.  Don’t put text OVER pictures so that it is difficult to read.  Don’t overwhelm students with too much text on a slide.

 In PowerPoint 2010 Microsoft has made it EASY for you by updating the software insert embed code in a few clicks.  The only problem I have found is that when using Youtube you need to use the “OLD” embed code.  In PowerPoint 2007 and before you have to use a technique to alter the link in order to play the video through PowerPoint.  Note that BOTH of these techniques requires an open internet connection.

 Must have developer tab opened!  Go to PowerPoint Options  Popular  Show developer tab and ribbon.

Take out “watch?” Replace the “=“ with a “/” (forward slash) MAKE SURE YOU DON’T ACCIDENTALLY PUT IN EXTRA SPACES WHEN YOU ARE ALTERING THE URL. IF YOU DO IT WON’T WORK. THIS IS AN EASY MISTAKE TO MAKE.

 Find the controls bar and click on the tools button.

 Scroll down to “Shockwave Flash Object”

 This box will come up.  Go to “Movie” and paste in the altered url.  That’s the one you took out “watch?” and changed the equal sign to a forward slash “/”  Close the box, and when you start the PowerPoint it should work.

 Link to PDF instructions  df df  Link PowerPoint Add-In: This page contains the link for the add ins for both PP 2007 and later and for PP   When you use the add-in it will ask you to enable macros to carry out this task.