PowerPoint & Videos, GCF Topic 20

PowerPoint--Adding Video Elements, Topic 20

Objective:  Use PowerPoint to add video to slides using the GCF Learn Free Website.

PowerPoint is a slideshow presentation program that's part of the Microsoft Office suite of tools. It makes it easy to create and present your ideas in a visual format. PowerPoint is used to enhance a presentation using visual pieces (pictures, shapes, art), sound (audio clips or sound you record), video (clips from your computer or from the web or other sources), and text. As you are speaking and giving a presentation, your PowerPoint file displays on a projector or big screen.

Earlier in the term, you created a slideshow about yourself. Let's add to what you may already know. You can add many different elements from within the program.

Topic 20, Inserting Videos

In this assignment, you will need to access the GCF website to practice adding video elements to a slideshow. Videos jazz up a presentation and help to engage your audience and even support data with additional evidence. Let's get started.

1. Read all steps listed below, then read, and view all information in the topic online.
2. Use this link to access Topic 20, Inserting Videos Links to an external site..
3. You may watch the video in the tutorial to learn more about inserting videos in PowerPoint, or read the text of the tutorial, or both!
4. At the end of reading and learning about inserting video elements into a presentation, complete the Challenge. Keep reading below for additional helpful tips while completing the challenge.

Complete the Challenge

1. Follow the online instructions for Step 1.

1. Use File, Save As to save the practice presentation as Videos_20 your last name your first initial onto your storage device. 
2. When you right-click to save the “link to our example video” file, save it to your storage device using its existing name. Your choice to save may be “Save link as…” When saving it to your storage device, the filename should be butterfly.mp4.

6. Continue following the online directions for Steps 2 and 3.
7. Size the video to approximately 5” in height, and keep it relative to its original size.
8. Now, continue with Step 4. Rather than apply a video style of your choice, apply the style named Rotated, White.
9. Complete Steps 5-7.
10. Upon completion of Step 7, resave your file again.
11. Submit the file.