Power point presentation (PPT)

 

Due to the rapid progress in technology, there are many ways of learning that have started. Which attract the mind of most students. The effect of using power point presentations on the students learning is huge. Power point presentation makes education more interactive and attract students towards the modified version of studying.

Microsoft power point is one of the most popular software for presentations created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at Forethought, Inc. Most known for its templates we can use it for multipurpose such as business, education and household. Using it is very simple and easy. It can add various fonts, colors and animation with click of a button.

Power point is an effective educational tool for teaching and delivering materials in classes. It allow us to create a slide show off important information, charts, and images for presentation. It is an engaging method which arouses our curiosity and increases our grasping capabilities.  As said ‘Learning is more in seeing than in hearing’. Through power point we tend to understand more and retain information for longer duration. Moreover it makes our learning more fun and enjoyable.

The image given below shows the main page of power point, this is where a person lands, when a program is run on a computer system.

 Steps to open power point on a computer

1.     1.  Click on the start button

2.      2. Then choose “All Programs”

3.     3.  Then select “MS Office”

4.     4.  Under MS Office, click on the “MS PowerPoint ”.

Features of PowerPoint

·         Slide layout

Multiple options and layouts are available based on which a presentation can be created. It is available under the “Home” section.

 

·         Insert

                    Under the “Insert” category, multiple features are available. This include images, audio,                          video, shapes and symbols.

 

 

 

·         Slide design

Power Point provide us with various themes from which we can add different designs and textures on our slides.

 

·         Animations

During the slide show, the slide appear on the screen one after the other. And we can add some animation to the way in which a slide present. The different animation styles available on power point are:

Advantages of power point

1.  It can be used virtually anywhere

We can put our presentation on a USB flash drive or in a cloud storage software so that we may access it at any time.

2. You can choose to create your own design

PowerPoint gives us complete control over the appearance of our slides. We have complete control over the design of our presentation.

3. It facilitates an effective way of communication with the audience

Power point enable us to choose our communication style, images, text or videos, all of them can be easily integrated into power point. Using images and videos help us to explain our idea better and in an engaging way.

4. Extremely efficient tool

We can even name shortcuts tat will change the way we use it and will also save a lot of time.

                    Disadvantages of power point

1. Presenters rely too much on slides.

Sometimes when we use PPT we may forget to actually prepare to deliver the presentation and we may end up reading from the slides.

2. High risk of technical issues. 

Our computer may fail to start, receive an update just before we begin or lose power during the presentation. 

Power point has both benefits and drawbacks but I think it has more benefits as using power point improves our learning focus, clarify our understanding,  engages different learning styles, as a presenter it boost our confidence, and it also enable us to use some basic sounds which we can use or insert our own audio for the desired effect.