The Pierre Marquette

Live Lectures in Microsoft PowerPoint

One of the best Christmas videos is The Polar Express, with Tom Hanks as the voice of the conductor.

Advanced PowerPoint: Working with Multimedia

It is the story of children who travel to the North Pole in a special steam engine: No. 1225, the Pere Marquette. No. 1225 is the only steam engine named after a priest and it served for many years in Michigan.

Our PowerPoint presentation will use the Pere Marquette as our theme. The images and videos will be used to teach how to work with multimedia.

PowerPoint: Working with Videos and Multimedia

Skills Taught

This lesson will present two methods for working with videos in PowerPoint: linked and embedded. Linking to a site like YouTube means that you have to be online to play the video. Adding the video to your presentation (embedding the multimedia) means you can play it anytime: you do not have to be online So, let’s look at the options.

Resources

Microsoft PowerPoint: Working with Multimedia