If you find a YouTube clip you want to use be aware that downloading it will breach Google’s terms of service. Not only is relying on hotel WIFI a bad plan, so is downloading clips off YouTube. Relying on WIFI is amateurville and bound to fail-at the worse time. My instructions are based on working from a video file you have safely downloaded to your computer and have permission to use. In the end the WIFI failed and the part of the video we were able to see was, frankly, not worth the wait. I recently watched a fellow speaker employing the help of 3 A/V crew (who, I’m sure, had better things to do) frantically trying to get a WIFI connection. The trick is for video to make your speech better-not be a distraction. Lots has changed and showing a video clip in a speech has become de rigueur.
Yup! that my children was hi-tech (I remember spending a good 30 minutes before every speech stuffing folded business cards under projectors trying to get both images to line up on the screen.)
