PowerPoint Activities – Overview

[This section should take you around 3 minutes to complete]

As a university student, you will often need to give presentations. One of the most popular presentation programs is Microsoft PowerPoint. It lets you create slides to display as an electronic slide show on a computer, TV, or big screen using a data beam projector connected to the computer.

Created in 1987 for Apple Macintosh, PowerPoint presentations now offer several benefits, including:

• Being relatively simple to compose yet offers sophisticated information delivery.
• Being relatively easy to scale up or down.
• Being easy to convert and easy to share.
• Being easy to archive and store.
• Incorporation of evolving multi-media technologies.
• Being linked to online resources.
• Being easy to update.
• Being responsive to audio-visual learning styles.
• Facilitating collaboration.
• Being relatively interactive.

With these benefits in mind, this topic begins our exploration of how to create effective PowerPoint presentations, while the next topic further explores how to deliver a PowerPoint presentation effectively.

This topic includes the following activities to be completed:

• PowerPoint  Activity 1.
• PowerPoint Activity 2.