Ok, All revved up to start posting regularly and my wheels are spinning off. Great start to the school year but have jumped in full speed ahead. Focus is on planning for the year and trying to get teacher's attention. Lucky for me I have a few who are keeping me busy!
Have spent today trying to get ahead of the curve and figure out the best way to teach MLA formatting with newly installed Word 2007. (What the heck is up with Google and the Calibri font?) I will post on this topic very soon. I've come up with some great questions regarding the level of teaching to do on this topic and some great solutions with various levels of student input.
Serendipitously, today I came across the answer to a question that I have been asked a bizzilion times (almost). Can I put a YouTube video on my PowerPoint? Well, yes Virginia, as of MS 2007 you can do exactly that! And it is easy and fun! Check out the video below for step by step details of what to do and how to do it. (Might look a little scary for non-techies but very simple when following this recipe.)
This video assumes an active and unfiltered access to the Internet. For districts that still block YouTube and other video sites other options do exist. The same author who produced this video offers a second video describing a rather complicated method. I prefer the much easier method of using Zamzar.com or other similar file conversion site to rip the video into a format that can be saved on the hard drive and played locally.
When streaming video directly from YouTube, there are no copyright implications (see previous posts in this blog). In any case where the video is removed from its source (converted and saved on your computer) it is important to remember to give credit to creators!
Have a great day!
No comments:
Post a Comment