Why should I use it in the first place?
1. To enhance speaker’s ethos.
- A well-developed slide show exudes professionalism and creativity.
2. To aid the audience’s comprehension.
- Outlines of content
- Graphs of difficult quantitative data
- Visual accompaniment to enhance the message
- Legibility factor
3. To provide variety within the presentation.
- the audience/students’ focus changes throughout the presentation.
- allows interaction with the audience
- CAUTION: Avoid the perils of PowerPointlessness or PowerPoint Paralysis
4. To offer convenience for the speaker/teacher.
- provides a one-source medium for all video and/or audio
accompaniment
- creates outlines and handouts to accompany the speech.
- ‘notes’ feature reduces need for cumbersome outlines and note
cards.
- Easy to share, store, modify and update your information.
- Provides an easy access database of lessons/notes.
- Provides an easy medium for absent students to access course material.
- Helps classified students with study guides, handouts, guided listening
activities.
5. To offer an interactive learning environment via a slideshow option.
- Corporate America actually uses PowerPoint for communicating
information more than for presentations.
- Provides an medium to engage students with opportunities for quizzes,
video links, audio links.
6. “A picture can say a thousand words.”
- Many times, pictures can convey a higher degree of pathos than
the speaker alone.
7. Benefits over overhead projectors and transparencies
- Easy and inexpensive to produce, copy, access, and modify.
- Better projection standards
1. To enhance speaker’s ethos.
- A well-developed slide show exudes professionalism and creativity.
2. To aid the audience’s comprehension.
- Outlines of content
- Graphs of difficult quantitative data
- Visual accompaniment to enhance the message
- Legibility factor
3. To provide variety within the presentation.
- the audience/students’ focus changes throughout the presentation.
- allows interaction with the audience
- CAUTION: Avoid the perils of PowerPointlessness or PowerPoint Paralysis
4. To offer convenience for the speaker/teacher.
- provides a one-source medium for all video and/or audio
accompaniment
- creates outlines and handouts to accompany the speech.
- ‘notes’ feature reduces need for cumbersome outlines and note
cards.
- Easy to share, store, modify and update your information.
- Provides an easy access database of lessons/notes.
- Provides an easy medium for absent students to access course material.
- Helps classified students with study guides, handouts, guided listening
activities.
5. To offer an interactive learning environment via a slideshow option.
- Corporate America actually uses PowerPoint for communicating
information more than for presentations.
- Provides an medium to engage students with opportunities for quizzes,
video links, audio links.
6. “A picture can say a thousand words.”
- Many times, pictures can convey a higher degree of pathos than
the speaker alone.
7. Benefits over overhead projectors and transparencies
- Easy and inexpensive to produce, copy, access, and modify.
- Better projection standards
The Benefits of
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
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