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June 22, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5: Quickest Quizzes Ever!

by Kevin Siegel

Adding Question Slides has always been a necessary evil in Captivate. I'm not saying that including a quiz in your eLearning isn't a good thing… certainly quizzes are an integral measuring stick for the effectiveness of your course. However, adding question slides to a Captivate eLearning course was, at best, tedious.

Prior to Captivate 4, you couldn't duplicate a Question Slide or import them from one project to another. With the introduction of Captivate 4, both of those problems were a thing of the past. But anyone who created a quiz using Captivate 4 knows how much work the process was. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, it goes a bit like this: you'll choose Quiz > Question Slide. Select the Question type and click OK. Type the question, type the answers, select the correct answer(s) and click OK. Format the Question Slide to taste. Then repeat. Not difficult, but very, very click-intensive.

Quiz Object Styles

With the new Captivate 5, the mundane chore of creating a quiz gets a whole lot easier. Prior to adding any Question Slides, you'll choose Edit > Object Style Manager. At the upper left of the Object Style Manager dialog box, there is an entire Quizzing Objects group. There are several Quizzing Objects, and you can set the styles to suit your needs.

Default quiz object styles

Improved Quiz Default Labels

Choose Quiz > Quiz Preferences. From the Quiz category, select Default Labels. When your Question Slides are created, there will be buttons added automatically along the bottom of the slide allowing learners to submit their answers, clear selections, skip a question and go back and answer skipped questions. Learners will also see feedback captions as they get the answers correct or incorrect. For the first time in Captivate history, you can elect to use the default values for your captions or create custom caption styles you can use on the Question Slides. The concept of Object Styles is new in Captivate 5 and will save you a significant amount of formatting time.

Quiz default labels

Add Multiple Question Slides

The best new feature Quiz feature you'll see in Captivate 5 will present itself when you insert the first Question Slides (via Quiz > Question Slide). Gone are the bad-old-days when you had to select a single Question Type and click OK. Then, when you wanted another Question Slide, you'd have to repeat the process. And again and again.

Take a look at the image below:

Add multiple question slides

All of the Question Types available in Captivate 4 are still there. However, a wonderful enhancement is the ability to specify multiple copies of each Question Type will be added to the project with a single click of the OK button (in the image above, I'm only showing the first two Question Types but I've asked Captivate to create 11 of each).

Improved Question Editing

And finally, while it's not as awe-inspiring as the ability to add a billion Question Slides to your project at one time, in Captivate 5 you can now edit the questions and answers directly on the slide (goodbye unnecessary dialog boxes). Double-clicking the text on the slide will now take you directly into text-editing mode where you can make your changes without losing focus on the slide itself.

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June 21, 2010

eLearning & mLearning: Using Color in Learning, Part II

by AJ George

Last week I went over how colors affect mood and how implementing certain color stories into your learning courses can encourage (or discourage) participation. This week I am going to shift away from how color affects mood and focus on how color affects retention and learning.

How Color Affects Learning

Studies have shown that the use of color can greatly impact learning and retention. There is evidence to suggest that thoughtfully designing the color of your learning courses will be time well spent. In a study by the Poynter Institute, participants were shown two newspaper pages. The pages were identical in every way except that one was presented in color and the other was in black and white. More than 98% of the participants said they preferred the more colorful page because they claimed to have read more on that page. Upon investigation, however, researchers found that the participants had not read more on the colorful page, they had simply imagined that they had because the color page gave off the illusion of having more information.

In a study done for the Journal of Experimental Psychology by Felix A. Wichmann, Lindsay T. Sharpe and Karl R. Gegenfurtner, test subjects were shown a series of photographs, half in color and the other half in black and white. They were later shown the same images mixed with new images and asked to indicate whether or not they had seen each picture. The study showed that participants were better able to remember seeing the color photographs. The same test was run using black and white, color, and false color images (where green pixels were exchanged for red and blue pixels exchanged for yellow and vice versa). The experiment showed that while color helps trigger memory, not just any color will do. The natural color images were remembered more than both the black and white and the false color images.

A study by Ravi Mehta and Juliet Zhu published in Science analyzed the effects of neutral, red and blue backgrounds on 600 participants' abilities to perform tasks. They found that those in the red group were better able to complete tasks involving detail, processes and accuracy. Those in the blue group fared better with creative, imaginative, and inventive tasks. The study showed that if you desire an end result of memorization or improved editing, you should use more red. If however, you want to encourage new ideas and creativity, choose blue.

The Takeaways…

Content is king, but if you present content with carefully chosen colors, your learners will get more out of it than if you were to present it in black and white.

Don't get too crazy with the colors, as learners will remember more of what you present if it is shown in its natural colors.

Use red to teach brain surgery and blue to stimulate the invention of new products. Want to know other ways to use colors in learning? Review last week's color article.

Click here for Part 1 of this series, How Color Affects Mood.

Click here for Part 3 of this series, Using Colors for Special Circumstances.

Click here for Part 4 of this series, Easy & Free Color Resources.

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About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Writer and author of both "PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials" and "PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." You can follow AJ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/andrayajgeorge.

June 16, 2010

eLearning & mLearning: Using Color in Learning

by AJ George

I've previously written about how to effectively use fonts to convey ideas and emotions in your eLearning courses. Effective use of color is equally important and is often overlooked and under utilized.

What is the purpose of your eLearning course? Are you presenting somber, factual material? Are you welcoming new employees? Maybe you are passing along important factual information that will need to memorized? Or maybe you are teaching a complex process?

All of these scenarios would benefit from different color stories. Over the next few weeks I'm going to discuss how you can use color in eLearning to affect mood, encourage learning, resonate in different cultures and be accessible to those with color sight deficiencies as well as provide some color resources to make your design process a bit easier.

How Color Affects Mood

The right color can put your learner in the right mood for optimal participation. The following is a breakdown of commonly accepted psychological effects of colors.

Red is a stimulant. Too much red can trigger anger or anxiety. When used appropriately, red can evoke passion and excitement, increase blood pressure and metabolism, and can even make food taste better when surrounded by it. Use it: to draw attention to key points, but don't overdo it as it could turn your learner off. Red would be a perfect color for pointing out things not to do.

Orange is an antidepressant. Similar to red it can be used as a stimulant. It is seen as warm and welcoming and can be beneficial when used in relation to food or creative processes. Use it: to appear more personable to your learners, particularly when dealing with boring content that just has to be presented.

Blue is in many ways red's counter–it lowers the pulse, encourages serenity and reduces appetites. Blue is often used in offices and gyms to stimulate productivity. Use it: to calm learners when presenting information that may initially seem complicated or overwhelming. Be sure to thoughtfully accent blue with other colors so as not to lull your students to sleep.

Green is known to bring tranquility and peacefulness. It is seen as refreshing and is the easiest color on the eyes. Green helps to relax muscles and deepen breathing. Use it: wherever you want, as much as you want. With good design, green can be a very effective eLearning color.

Yellow is a brain stimulant and promotes memory, clear thinking and decision-making. Yellow should be used sparingly as it is the harshest color on the eyes. It is known to cause tempers to flare and babies have been shown to cry more in yellow rooms. Use it: to highlight points that should be memorized or that are often forgotten in your content. Yellow would also be a good color to incorporate into the quiz sections of your learning. Don't overdo it, or risk giving your learners a headache.

Purple is a mind-balancer that promotes good judgment and spirituality. Traditionally the color of royalty, it can now be used to express any number of moods depending upon the color with which it is paired (with blue it becomes calming, with red it becomes stimulating). Use it: in conjunction with another color to achieve your desired mood. Purple is a very well-rounded color that could be used to express anything from lightheartedness and fun in learning to sophistication of a company or brand.

Black is technically the absence of color and typically elicits feelings of power, formality, mystery, fear and sexuality. Use it: for fonts. There are a lot of jazzy things you can do with font colors but I find that sticking with traditional black is often the best choice for the bulk of text. Black can be a beautiful color for design and can evoke a lot of powerful moods, but for eLearning courses it is not one of my favorites.

White is technically the perfect balance of all colors and is seen as pure and clean, which is why brides and many nurses opt for this color. Use it: all over the place. Don't be afraid of well-thought-out white space. White is also a strong choice for fonts when text is on a darker background.

Click here for Part 2 of this series, How Color Affects Learning.

Click here for Part 3 of this series, Using Colors for Special Circumstances.

Click here for Part 4 of this series, Easy & Free Color Resources.

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June 15, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5: Styling with Object Styles

by Kevin Siegel

How many times have you had to update the appearance of objects in Captivate and the pesky Apply to All feature simply didn't work? If you've tried to update Captivate's text captions across an entire project, then you know how truly hit or miss the process can be.

Over the past couple of weeks I've touched on some of the wonderful new features you'll find in the upcoming Captivate 5. This one ranks in the top two or three: Object Styles. For the first time in Captivate history, you'll be able to create, edit and use styles for many of Captivate's standard slide objects. This feature effectively replaces Design Templates introduced in Captivate 4.

Using Caption styles, you can alter the way text captions will appear in a project. Once you set up the appearance of the default Caption Style, new captions will take on the attributes of the style and save you a ton of manual formatting. Want to update the appearance of your project's text captions months from now? Simple. Update the style and BAM! Every text caption will follow the lead of its style.

To edit the Default Caption Style, choose Edit > Object Style Manager. From the top of the Object Style Manager dialog box, select Default Caption Style (there are also defaults for Success, Failure and Hint Captions).

You can use the Caption area at the right to specify a Caption type. From the Character area, you can select a font Family, Style and Size (such as Verdana, Regular, 16). From the Format area, you can specify the alignment both horizontally and vertically. And there are other formatting options available.

Default caption style

When you insert new text captions (via Insert > Standard Objects > Text Caption), each new caption will follow the formatting specified in the style. Cool!

Of course, here's where things get interesting. I added several captions to a slide. Each used the Default Caption Style. Next I did the unthinkable–I manually changed the appearance of each caption. What a mess!

What a mess!

You might want to stand back a bit… this next step just might leave a mark. I selected all of the captions that I fouled up. Then, from the top of the Properties panel, I clicked the Reset Style button.

Reset styles

And Bam, Bam, Bam! All of the text captions once again followed the formatting I specified in the object style!

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June 7, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5: One Masterful Slide

by Kevin Siegel

Ever needed to display an object across several or all of your Captivate project slides? Me too! The good news is that there is more than one way to accomplish the task. The bad news is that neither process works very well.

One way to show an object (such as your logo) across multiple slides is to use Captivate's Show for rest of project command via the Options tab. This technique works well enough until you come across one of the slides where you don't want the image. Since the Show for rest of project command is an all-or-nothing affair, you are sunk (unless you cover the object or know how to Hide an object).

The other way to show an object across multiple slides (hold onto your hat) is to copy and paste the object onto said slides. While antiquated, this is a simple-enough process until, sometime later, you want to move, alter or remove the object from all or some of those slides. The only foolproof way to make changes to those objects is to go from slide to slide and manually make the change(s). I know that there's an Apply to All feature, but it is often inappropriate to use or worse, simply doesn't work consistently. Ouch!

So hello to Captivate 5 where you will find a wonderfully welcome addition: Master Slides. Once you create a Master Slide, anything you add to a Master Slide can quickly be applied to any project slide(s). If you modify, move or delete Master Slide objects, the slides assigned to the Master Slide will instantly be affected. Nice!

To create a Master Slide, choose Window > Master Slide.

The Master Slide panel appears alongside the Timeline. If you click on a Master Slide, you'll enter Master Slide view. Any changes you make to the slide will affect the selected Master Slide.

Master Slide Panel

Add, format or position object(s) on the Master Slide just as you would a project slide. In the picture below, I added a logo to the lower right of the master slide.

Master Slide

The final step is to apply the Master Slide to project slide(s).

On the Film Strip, select any or all of the slides.

From the General group on the Properties panel, select the Master Slide you would like to apply from the Master Slide drop-down menu.

Apply a Master Slide

You can have multiple Master Slides in a project (choose Insert > Master Slide while the Master Slide panel is open to add a new Master Slide). And you can name a Master Slide via the Properties panel of any selected Master Slide.

If you don't want to use a Master Slide on a specific slide(s), select the slide(s) and, from the General group on the Properties panel, select None from the Master Slide drop-down menu.

No Master Page

As mentioned earlier, once you have applied a Master Slide to a project slide, any changes you make to the objects on a Master Slide will have an instant affect on any slides that are assigned to the Master Slide.

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June 1, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5: Affected by Effects

by Kevin Siegel

How many times have you wanted to make Captivate slide objects animate like you can do in PowerPoint (you know, make an image fly in, flip, rotate, follow a path… the standard stuff you've been able to do since the dawn of time in PowerPoint)? And how many times have you been stymied when it comes to adding effects because well, Captivate simply did not offer the feature. Did you notice I said did not? That's right, the new Adobe Captivate 5 offers effects… and not just a few vanilla effects. Captivate 5 features so many effects, we just might have to offer a dedicated class just to cover them all.

Add an Effect

During the steps that follow, I'll show you how to add a few simple Effects to an image (but keep in mind that you can add an Effect to just about any slide object and you can combine Effects).

Right-click the image and choose Apply Effect.
On the Effects tab, which is new to Adobe Captivate 5 and is grouped by default with the Timeline, click the Add Effect button (the button is very small and is located in the lower-left of the Effects panel).

Shown below is the full Effects menu available to you in Adobe Captivate 5. Each menu has several effects.
In the screen capture below, notice that I've added an image and positioned it at the far left of the slide. Then I selected Entrance > Fly In > Fly In From Right.
The slide position of the image is important. As the image performs the Effect, the image will fly in from the far right of the slide and stop at the designated slide position.
When you add Effects, the effect appears on the Effects panel (as mentioned above, the Effects panel is new in Adobe Captivate 5 and grouped with the Timeline). In the screen capture below, notice that I have also added a Glow effect.

You can easily control which effect occurs first (in the screen capture above, the Fly In From Right effect will occur first, followed by the Glow effect). All you will need to do to reverse the effect is drag the objects left or right on the Effects panel (just like controlling the timing of objects on the Captivate Timeline).

Two final things, but I think they are both kind of cool. First, many of the Effects will have Properties you can edit. In the screen capture above, the Glow Effects include Blur and Strength properties. Second, there is a Save icon (the little disk) on the Effects panel that will allow you to save your Effects for future use.

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May 27, 2010

PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos, Part 2

by AJ George

Last week I showed you how to insert YouTube videos into a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, but in order for it to work you would need to be presenting on a computer with an internet connection. This week I'll show you how to insert a YouTube video when the computer you'll be presenting from does not have an internet connection.

Find the YouTube video you would like to insert into your PowerPoint presentation.
Copy the URL for the video.
Navigate to www.mediaconverter.org (there are other free media converters, but I've tried and had success with this one) and click Enter a link.
Paste in the URL for the YouTube video and click OK.
Click go to the next step.
Select an output file type and click OK.
You can choose either avi or wmv, but if you will be following along next week to learn how to insert YouTube videos into PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac, I would choose wmv.
Click Start to begin the conversion.
When finished, click Download and save the file to your desired location.
In PowerPoint, select the slide on which you would like to insert the video.
On the Insert tab choose Movie > Movie from File.
Navigate to where you have saved the downloaded video and click OK.
When asked how you would like the movie to start in PowerPoint, click When Clicked (unless you would like the video to begin playing automatically).
Move and resize the inserted video as desired.
When you view your slide show, click the video to play it.
Click the video again to pause or stop it.

PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos (with internet)

PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac: Inserting YouTube Videos

PowerPoint 2010: Inserting YouTube Videos

Video image source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

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About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Writer and author of the both "PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials" and "PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." You can follow AJ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/andrayajgeorge.

May 26, 2010

mLearning: The Latest Trends and Why You Should Care

by Rosie Hausler

Mobile Learning (mLearning) has been around for quite a while now. As a subset of Distance Learning and eLearning it has promised a more immediate and more flexible approach to those bleeding-edge providers that have wanted to deliver more complete blended training programs.

If you consider the definition of mLearning as untethered (from cords and cables) and interactive (so learners can participate from almost anywhere), you can see how the limitations of the available legacy mobile devices have kept mLearning in the emerging phase over the last decade. mLearning has often been over-hyped and under-adopted.

But there are some things stirring that may make now the perfect time to start paying closer attention to mLearning as a viable (and increasingly key) part of your training delivery arsenal. 2010 may just be the year you should jump into the mLearning fray if you've been sitting on the sidelines waiting for it to emerge more rapidly.

Why now?

Several interesting trends are converging to create a perfect storm for mLearning. Some of these trends include: the explosion of mobile device adoption, growth of location-based services and location-aware networks, surge in social media adoption and participation, growth in cloud computing and the continuation of travel-reluctant companies that are embracing eLearning, mLearning and online training more and more as a way to save on training costs.

Let's just consider a couple of these trends, Mobile Device Adoption and the Surge in Social Media Use.

Mobile Device Adoption

Apple sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, April 30, just 28 days after the device's release. More than 12 million apps from the App Store and 1.5 million ebooks have been downloaded from the new iBookstore.
Growth of the worldwide converged mobile device market (commonly referred to as smartphones) more than doubled that of the overall mobile phone market in the first quarter of 2010, a sign the segment is in high-growth mode again. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 54.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010 (1Q10), up 56.7% from the same quarter a year ago. In contrast, the overall mobile phone market grew 21.7%.
Converged mobile devices accounted for 18.8% of all mobile phones shipped in 1Q10, up slightly from 14.4% in 1Q09 according to IDC.
"E-paper eReaders will be one of the major disruptive technologies of the early 21st century," said analyst Nick Hampshire of MediaIdeas, "it will change the nature of publishing and related print industries forever, ushering in a host of innovative ways to present, market, and distribute content."
Gartner said that vendors could ship up to 10.5 million traditional tablets and next-generation tablet devices worldwide in 2010.
Although Amazon doesn't disclose how many Kindles they have sold to date, they have said that millions of Kindles have been sold.

More People Interacting on Social Media Sites

There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices (and more than 400 million active users according to Facebook).
People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook as non-mobile users.
There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.
Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
New Twitter users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
180 million unique visitors come to the Twitter site every month.
Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
Of Twitter's active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.
LinkedIn has over 65 million members in over 200 countries.
A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of its members are outside the U.S.
Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members.

Where to Start

If you've decided that now may be a great time to dip your toe into the mLearning pool, take some time to evaluate your audience and develop a goal for your mLearning effort. One great use of mLearning is to reinforce concepts from instructor-led and e-learning courses. You could get back together with the course alumni for a Q and A session a few weeks after the more formal training course is over. Learners will have had time to apply the new material they learned during the course and mLearning is a perfect format to bring the group back together for a quick check-in and follow-up session to drive the main points home. Assessments and evaluations are also another great application for mLearning. Whatever program you decide to implement, start with small learning bursts and grow your mLearning program according to the success you have with it. Let your learner community help steer the direction and cater to their current mobile skillset and behavior.

mLearning is here and it's not going away. It is undoubtedly changing and growing but now is a great time to start small and build upon your successes.

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About the author: Rosie Hausler is the president and founder of Sandhill PR and Search Engine Marketing based in Seattle, WA. She has more than 20 years of high tech marketing experience and was VP of Marketing for the ViewCentral LMS (acquired by Rainmaker in 2006).

May 25, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5: The Mother of All Upgrades!

by Kevin Siegel

I've been using, writing about and teaching Captivate since, well… before the program was known as Captivate. I've seen all of the upgrades. I've been underwhelmed (Captivate 1 to 2 didn't do much for me) and amazed (Captivate 3 to 4 was a major step forward for the program). With the upgrade from Captivate 4 to 5, I'm awestruck. Adobe didn't just upgrade the program, they tore it down and rebuilt it.

If you're on Twitter or follow the eLearning BLOGS, then you probably already know that the new version of Captivate is expected to be released in June of this year (as in next month). The new version will run on a Macintosh, which would be reason enough to do a jig except that that is not even the coolest of all the enhancements. Over the coming weeks, I'll touch on some of the hottest features that will surely bring a smile to your face (and have you reaching for your credit card in a rush to buy the upgrade).

Goodbye windowshades, hello panels!

The new Captivate has a shiny new interface that more closely matches the other popular Adobe programs. Gone are the dreaded windowshade buttons that were made popular by the late, great Macromedia. (Those of you who don't know the history might be surprised to learn that Captivate was once owned by Macromedia before Macromedia got swallowed up by Adobe.)

I can't tell you how many new developers (and even some vets) clicked the windowshade button for the Timeline to collapse the panel, only to find themselves in a fight with Captivate trying to get the pesky panel to come back. In Captivate 5, so long windowshades, hello panels.

You won't find very many dialog boxes in Captivate 5. The new version relies on panels for just about everything. For instance, in the current version of Captivate, if you right-click an object and choose Properties, you are met with the Properties dialog box. Make your changes there and then click OK. In the new Captivate, you double-click an object to display the Properties panel. Once on the panel, you make your changes and… and… there's no OK button to click. Simply continue working because your settings took. Not having to click an OK button after every change is going to take some getting used to, but just think of all the clicks you are going to save over the coming years!

The Properties Panel, CP5

Workspaces

So there's all these new panels and you are going to love them. I mean hate them. I mean love them. To be honest, you're going to have to get used to the new panels. You'll probably hate them at first but grow to love them. Believe me, the panels are worlds better than the clunky old dialog boxes.

To help you get used to the new panels, Captivate 5 sports a Workspaces feature. Here's how it works… drag your panels anywhere you want within the Captivate window. Group your favorite panels together, collapse them, resize them or close them.

When you've got Captivate window looking the way you want, why take the chance that some rogue colleague of yours is going to start Captivate after you've left for the day and move everything around? Instead, go to the Workspace menu and choose New Workspace.

Name your new workspace and click the OK button (yes, I said click OK… most of the dialog boxes are gone, but not all of them).

Once saved, you can access your new workspace via the Workspace menu where you will find a half dozen default Workspaces including Classic, Widget and Skin Editor. It is worth noting that you can delete or rename a workspace by choosing Manage Workspace via the Workspace menu.

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May 19, 2010

PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos

by AJ George

I am often asked how to get YouTube videos into a PowerPoint presentation, and, unless you're using the latest version (PowerPoint 2010), it's an understandable question… it's not a simple process. Over the next few weeks I will show you how to insert YouTube videos into PowerPoint 2007 (both with and without an internet connection) and PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac.

Insert YouTube Videos into PowerPoint 2007 with Internet

In PowerPoint click the Office button.
Click the PowerPoint Options button.
From the Popular category, select Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon.
Click the OK button.
Go to YouTube and locate the video you would like to insert into your PowerPoint presentation.
Copy the URL for the video.
Back in PowerPoint, select the Developer tab and from the Controls group, select More Controls.

The More Controls dialog box appears.
Scroll down and select Shockwave Flash Object.
Click the OK button.
Your cursor should now look like a cross, an indication that you can draw a box.
Draw a box on your slide and size it as desired to contain your video. Do not worry about making it perfect, you will be able to size it later just like any other shape.
With the box you have just drawn selected, click Properties on the Developer tab.

The Properties window appears.
Locate Loop and select False from the drop-down menu.
This step will keep your video from looping.
Locate Playing and select False from the drop-down menu.
This step will keep your video from playing automatically.
Locate Movie and paste in the URL for the video you would like to use.
Find in the URL where it says watch? and delete it.
Change any instance of = in the URL to a /.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8 would be changed to http://www.youtube.com/ v/0Bmhjf0rKe8.
Close the Properties window.
When you play your slideshow, your video will appear just like it would on YouTube, ready to be played.