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If you plan to publish your presentation, make sure you are within your rights to use the image: either

ensure that you are working within the principles of Fair Use (web sites such as http://copyright.gov/s/

102.html and http://fairuse.stanford.edu have extensive information on Fair Use) or choose an image

that has a license permitting you to share it . For instance, the photo I’m using in the gure is

by Hildo Trazo, who was nice enough to release it under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The

license requires me to add the necessary credits within the presentation before publishing it.

The image le size will remain the same as the source le, even if you resize the image within your presentation,

so you may be better off saving it locally rst and resizing it

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If a picture tells a thousand words, a video tells a million.

When you convert your presentation to a video, you can upload it to sites like YouTube for easy

embedding and viewing. A video presentation also allows you to add sound such as music and

voiceovers. But how do you go from a web page (remember, every Google presentation is essentially

a web page) to video format?

Windows Movie Maker is a free program by Microsoft that lets you create videos. It’s included with

Windows XP and Vista (Start→All Programs→Windows Movie Maker). Y ...