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= Interactive PowerPoint using Multimedia =

Find existing presentations:
When you are starting to make a powerpoint, it is easy to search for other powerpoints that people have made by doing one of two things.
 * 1) do a google search for your topic but add :ppt - for example if I wanted to make a powerpoint presentation about photosynthesis, I would type photosynthesis :ppt in google.
 * 2) sign into slideshare.net or scribd.com and do a search for your topic

By default, multimedia such as video, music and audio are inserted into the powerpoint but do not remain inserted into the show. To make multimedia embedded into the show so that the links are lost by increasing : read [|this].

media type="youtube" key="cagxPlVqrtM" height="344" width="425"

media type="custom" key="2857279"

[|voicethread.com] [|photostory 3]

Although I did not discuss in the presentation, slidecasting is another use for powerpoint. A tutorial can be found [|here].