Presentations

Presentation programs such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint, allows users to display information normally in the form of a slide show. Presentations are normally used as a way to convey key points across to people while talking more in depth about the key points. Most have a feature, which allow the presenter to add notes to the presentation which when printed off will show under each slide. They are generally used by business people, educators and students. They help people easily create a presentation that can include images, graphs, tables, bullet points even sound and video. An example of where a presentation program can be used is in educational places teachers can create a slideshow of the up coming lesson to show the students what they will be learning about. This is time saving for them and easier for students to read and take in.

Advantages of these programs can include the following: they help people save a lot of time and make their presentation look more professional who would otherwise have to use other types of visual aid such as white/black boards. The presentation can be viewed with or without the presenter being present, the slide show can set to run continuously at a pace set to the needs of the presenter and run without human input. It can also be projected onto a whiteboard with the presenter controlling the transition between slides while they are talking. Lastly slide shows can be controlled by viewers, allowing them to make the decision when they want to view the next slide.

The only downside to using presentation programs will be that you cannot view the presentation without a computer unless you print it off and some of the features can be a little complicated to use and may require some getting used to.

Microsoft's Power Point 2007