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Embedding A YouTube Video in Power Point

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to use videos as part of the instruction to trigger discussion or something at the end as a group bonding mechanism. I just discovered a way to embed the video directly in a slide. You need Powerpoint 2007 and a live Internet connection in order to make it work. I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum.

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Rethinking Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Tech Soup

During our webinar on May 24, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , we covered key points on effective presentations in PowerPoint. One of my favorite pieces of advice is to remember that your economy of language is incredibly important when creating your slides. Meredith Farkas, Avoiding the Idea Graveyard.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Prezi is releasing new video features to make virtual teaching more exciting

The Verge

You may know Prezi as an innovative PowerPoint-esque software that lays information out as an animated map rather than sequential slides. This month, as many schools attempt to utilize online instruction for the first time, Prezi is rolling out two new tools tailored to distance learning.

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Nine Ways Networked Nonprofits Use Slideshare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4)

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Overdue Reflections from UK

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I also thought of a book title from about ten years ago called " Learning and Forgetting " I went a little overboard on the 80-plus powerpoint slides.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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