What is the importance of a PowerPoint?

Answer 1

Microsoft Powerpoint is such a great tool used for so many things:

1. presenting a project at school
2. showing your employees your expectations or plans
3. even introducing your present day life to your old out of town friends by email.
4. You can put videos on it...music
5. just about anything! Its very fun, creative, and useful.

Answer 2

Some good reasons to use PowerPoint

So why should you consider using PowerPoint for your teaching and learning

activities? There are many reasons but the key ones include:

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Appropriate use of PowerPoint can enhance the teaching and learning

experience for both staff and students

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It provides encouragement and support to staff by facilitating the structuring of

a presentation in a professional manner. The templates provided have been

designed to default to good presentation criteria such as the number of lines

of information per slide and appropriate font sizes and types, etc: using the

styles of the default templates can significantly improve the clarity and

structuring of a presentation. This helps to avoid the common use of

excessive text often found on overhead transparencies.

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By careful mixing of media, a presentat

ion can appeal to a number of different

learning styles and be made more stimulating. You are encouraged to

incorporate more sophisticated visual and auditory media into presentations

although care is required because of the inevitable increase in file sizes and

the danger of excessive use. Incorporation can be done, either directly from

within the programme or, sometimes more successfully, by appropriate

pausing of the PowerPoint presentation and using alternative technology (e.g.

tape player or VCR). Note that this does not require switching off either the

computer system or the projector system, one of the most common

perceptions that restrict use - instead, use the 'B' character toggle switch

during a slide presentation to 'blank' t

he screen temporarily while using other

media.

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The electronic file format allows dist

ribution and modification for/by students

unable to be present or who have impair

ed visual or auditory difficulties.

PowerPoint comes with a free viewer programme that can be distributed with

the files so that the reader is not required to have PowerPoint on their

personal system. However, if they do have it, they are able to perform a

greater variety of manipulations on the PowerPoint file provided, such as

editing the text, etc before printing it out. Most Virtual Learning Environments

(VLEs) are now capable of including PowerPoint presentations if required.

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Editing of each PowerPoint file is very easy with minimal associated reprinting

costs. This ease and potential immediacy of revision facilitates reflection

upon, and evolution of, teaching materials by staff whilst minimising the

consequences of any revision in terms of either workload or time. This was a

major reason for my own extensive switch of teaching materials to

PowerPoint, even when the end-product was required to be an overhead

projection slide. I also find that I can add a new slide whilst in a lecture if so

required: I often use this method to present notices or create a record of the

outcome when collecting information from the class so that it can

subsequently be made available to the entire class.

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The printing of handouts in a variety of formats is facilitated with a number of

embedded options to print either the slides themselves (useful if there are

graphics involved) or the text from the slides (outlines). The outlines may be

saved as .rtf format and opened for further modification within an appropriate

word processor. This allows the easy development of more sophisticated

handouts based on the PowerPoint presentation but with extra interactive

elements such as readings and questions added where appropriate.

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Extra information can be 'hidden' within files for answering predicted

questions or for providing feedback to students using the file in a distance-

learning context. The use of speakers notes as an automated feedback

system was described by Mottley (2003) who also describes other ways to

use PowerPoint for development of self-study materials

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The portability of the files, especially on compact disks (CDs) with their large

capacity, allows presentations to

be given wherever the technology is

available or distributed where appropria

te. Presentations can also be set up

to run automatically if required e.g.

as demonstrations/instructions within a

laboratory

Answer 3

PowerPoint Presentations are a way of attracting audience towards your views and arguments. It is one of the most helping factors behind success of every meeting. There are various uses of power point presentations, some of them are integrated. The most popular uses of power point presentations are in modern days learning, corporate training sessions, business and marketing meetings, and sales gatherings.

Learning Solutions

Power point presentation combines audio and visual both aspects, making it easier to understand for audience. Even the normal teaching or training becomes interactive by just using presentations in lectures. These days school, colleges and institutions are providing tailor made presentations to students for different topics in syllabus of study. That makes learning easier and interactive for students.

Corporate Training Session

Power point is an essential ingredient of every corporate training session. Top executives and manager (marketing and sales) use this powerful tool to train their junior's or associates to give them better, interactive and more effective training. It's always beneficial and less time consuming for corporate trainers, if they use these tools in their sessions, it generates more results.

Marketing Strategy

Powerful tools and options present in Microsoft power point, makes it easier for people in marketing, advertising, and sales to make presentations for motivation of their subordinates. Inclusion of different types of charts, images, clip-arts, other graphical structures, makes a presentation eye catchy. Animation and sound effects add extra emphasis on these presentations making them look more interactive.

Answer 4

Because you can improve the effects of presentation by adding pictures, videos, and other multimedia properly with powerpoint. Therefore it will be easier to present it lots of people with it.

Answer 5

to visually and informatively enhance your presentation or speech and provide the audience with something to read as you present and keeps the audience interested

Answer 6

because it is helpful jejeje

Answer 7

because we use it