I needed to figure out how to download YouTube videos for an upcoming conference presentation where I wasn't confident that I would be able to have a good enough connection to play the video.

How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations Before you embed YouTube videos in PowerPoint slides, always think of the medium(s) you’ll use to deliver that presentation. Tutorial: How to embed YouTube Videos in PowerPoint It’s not uncommon to see presenters in conferences struggling to get the video right thus breaking the entire rhythm of their presentation...)? The reason I asked this is because each situation requires a different approach.

YouTube EDU launched this past week containing online lectures from more than 100 colleges and universities. The site lets you browse hundreds of videos by school or you can search by subject. The variety of content is amazing - everything from Advanced Finite Elements Analysis to How to Make Spring Cupcakes . An internal site like this could be fantastic for capturing tribal knowledge in a corporate environment.

You can now embed YouTube videos into SlideShare. It's really easy.  After uploading your video, go to your presentation. Choose the slide and paste the URL for the video. We will add a slide in that spot with the video embedded.  You can even embed multiple videos into the slide. YouTube videos inside SlideShare View more presentations or upload your own.

Wow, what a great presentation / video from Michael Wesch and the author of The Machine is Us presenting to the Library of Congress. It's an hour long, so make sure you give yourself time.

Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your YouTube videos! Use them to: Add background information about the video. Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene) Link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video All of the above! You control what the annotations say, where they appear on the video, and when they appear and disappear....

Even more unclear is how the growing array of interactive Web 2.0 video-sharing technologies are being used to facilitate digital storytelling. This paper presents a pilot study conducted to begin learning how digital storytelling is manifesting on YouTube, which is currently the most widely used of all video-sharing services. A relevance sample of 100 digital stories was obtained from YouTube.

Michael Wesch is the guy behind "The Machine is Us/ing us" video . However, his latest video is of his presentation at the Library of Congress. Nellie Deutsch posted it to Facebook which is where I found it. Its a good one with some great video and supporting data that tells a great story of this 2.0 revolution. Enjoy!

I have not been very good about posting this week. Its been a crazy-busy week! But...I do have the "going-into-the-weekend" video Check out Ira Glass on Storytelling ...

Check this out: Tonya poses a question, asks viewers to type their answers into the comments section below the video, and pauses the tape to give viewers time to answer. FABULOUS strategy. FABULOUS use of this technology! Be sure to visit the YouTube site to see the comments.