PPS Instructional Technology

Have you ever wanted to annotate right on a PowerPoint slide while you were giving a presentation?  Need to call attention to a particular part of your slide?  Good News!  You are only a click away from being able to do this in PowerPoint 2010. Choosing Your Pen While playing your presentation/slide show... Step 1: Right click on your slide. Step 2: Select Pointer Options Step 3: Select Pen or Highlighter Step 4: You can also change the color of your ink from this same menu To Keep or Discard Annotations When you exit your presentation, it will ask you if you want to Keep or Discard your ink annotations. Keyboard Shortcuts There are also some keyboard shortcuts you can use to access your pens during a presentation. ctrl+p during a presentation will turn your pen on ctrl+a during a presentation will turn your mouse back in to an arrow Turn Annotations On or Off You can also choose to turn your saved annotations on or off.  While in the...

Sometimes you want to embed a YouTube video directly into your PowerPoint instead of having to leave the presentation to view the video.  This can be a challenge, but here are the steps to make it happen. Like with 2003 you do have to edit parts of the code...here is what you need to do: Step 1 : Go to YouTube and click on Share, then Embed.  Make sure you check the box that says, "Use Old Embed Code" Step 2 : Copy the code Step 3 : Open your powerpoint.  Go to Insert.  Click on Video, then Video from Website. Step 4 : Paste the embed code in the box. Step 5 : In the code: find where it says "//www.youtube.com... and change it to "http://www.youtube.com...  You will need to do this twice. Step 6 : In the code: find where it says version=3... and change it to version=2.  You will have to do this twice as well. Step 7 : Click Insert. Now your video should play inside your PowerPoint.