You can find a lot of free items that are royalty-free. Many need you to sign up to receive their newsletter or simply state where you got them from. Others may ask you to also post their link to show where they came from like the ones below!

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

http://freeplaymusic.com/

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ --You must go to the Free music loops and sound effects link!!

http://www.sonnyboo.com/music/music.htm

Although there are a lot of royalty-free places to get backgrounds/templates--they are often at places that SELL them as well. Make sure you find the ones that say FREE!

http://powerbacks.com/index_us.html

http://www.brainybetty.com/

http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/templates/freetemplates.html (go to the bottom of the page for over 100 free ones!)

http://www.freeppttemplates.com/

Although you need to have a membership to use--which the local REMC pays for (contact them for a pass code) it offers excellent videos on an enormous amount of topic.

www.unitedstreaming.com

www.youtube.com –you need to have realplayer downloaded (it is free!!) and then you can download the clip and convert it to use in PowerPoint—see this site for more information -- http://mashable.com/2007/05/05/download-youtube-video/ to look at zamzar to convert…

You can easily create a presentation as a photo album if you simply want to add a large group of your favorite pictures to a presentation without the hassle of customizing each picture. PowerPoint 2002 allows you to add multiple pictures from your hard disk, scanner, digital camera, or Web camera to your photo album. It creates an entirely new PowerPoint that you can then merge into an existing one.

Right click on slide in the white space (not in a text box or on an image), choose background

You can then change the color or choose fill effects then choose picture and go to select picture…you will then have to browse on the computer for the image you have saved.

Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD010798701033.aspx and click on PowerPoint Viewer 2003. It will download an executable file that you have to save on your computer and then when it is saved, you have to run the file to add it to your programs.

You have a variety of choices to pick from--and all can be edited.

Venn

Cycle

Pyramid

Target

Radial

Your files become WAY TOO BIG--And start to take up too much room or too much RAM—or if you want to post them for students to use on the web….

Compression can help!!!

Right click on any picture and choose format picture. Then choose compress…Then you can select from the options in the new dialog box

Copy and Paste a web address onto a slide

Once you copy and past a link in, you have to hit the space bar once and then hit enter to make it a link

To edit what it says on the screen—right click on the link and choose edit hyperlink…

In the new dialog box, you can change what the words or what the link is in this location