If you have an interactive whiteboard or a screen and a projector, then it is fair to say that you probably use PowerPoint in your teaching quite regularly. But I find that PowerPoint is a great presentation tool only if the presentation stays focused, with clear learning objectives, and if the user avoids death by PowerPoint, as I call it when, sometimes, we teachers abuse this tool and bore our classes witless with endless slides.
A great way to make your slides more dynamic and interesting is simply to add sound and video to your presentation. Although you can add You-Tube videos to PowerPoint presentations direct from the Internet, this is often fraught with problems such as You-Tube being filtered or blocked by your school or your Internet connection in your classroom being unreliable.
My preferred and more reliable way is to add a video (or sound file) which is already stored in your computer. Watch this video guiding you through the necessary steps to insert a video into your PowerPoint presentation:
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