PowerPoint Presentation


Power Point is the modern and modified version of the old fashioned slide shows. You can add text, movie clips, sound, pictures, or animations (or a combination of them) to your "slides." Each Power Point presentation may contain as many slides as you like. The final project will look like a slide show, simply clack your mouse to move from slide to slide. Presentations may be saved as a web page and posted on the web (link to web page information) or projected in the classroom (link to projector information). Lecture notes can also accompany any presentation while not viewable to students. This way an entire lecture, notes, visual aids, and any other complementing multimedia can all be stored in one place. Power Point may also be used as a non-linear source of information. Slides can be viewed in the order, or one slide may link to another section of the presentation. In this way, this can be particularly effective if the audience does not need all the information provided. A main table of contents, linking to corresponding slides, gives the learner the freedom of choosing where he needs to start.

Instructor Use

Power Point is an awesome compliment to direct instruction. Information complimenting a lecture can be displayed during the lecture. Instead of hauling in a cassette player and a tv/vcr, and an overhead projector, compile the information into a Power Point presentation.

Student Source

If the instructor were to post his/her Power Point presentations, as well as their notes, to the web students could use them as a study aid and resource tool.

Student Tool

Students can creatively express their knowledge through Power Point presentations. Instead of primarily relying on written forms of communication to demonstrate understanding, students can compile different forms of media to communicate their knowledge.

Classroom Ideas