PRESENTATION SKILLS USING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
Presentation
A Presentation is the practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner. Presentation is also the means of communication which can be adapted to various speaking situation, such as talking to a group, addressing a meeting or briefing a team.
Types of Presentation
There are five (5) types of presentations. These include:-
1.Informative Presentation
The purpose of an informative presentation is to stick to the facts or points and avoid complicated information. Your presentation will probably be short.
2.Instructional Presentation
The purpose of an instructional presentation is to give specific directions or orders. Your presentation will probably be a bit longer, because it has to cover your topic thoroughly.
3.Arousing Presentation
The purpose of an arousing presentation is to make people think about a certain problem or situation.
4.Decision-making Presentation
The purpose of a decision-making presentation is to move your audience to take your suggested action. A decision-making presentation presents ideas, suggestions, and arguments strongly enough to persuade an audience to carry out your requests.
5.Persuasive Presentation
Your purpose in a persuasive presentation is to convince your listeners to accept your proposal
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software package. You can use Microsoft PowerPoint to create and organize slides on a computer, to be printed on paper or acetate transparencies, projected directly from the computer or shared via the Internet.
You can use Microsoft PowerPoint to create graphs and diagrams to which you may then add graphics and text. It also allows you to incorporate animation, audio and video elements.
Uses of Microsoft PowerPoint
You can use Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations, to make games, to prepare tutorials, animations and posters. These can be used to facilitate teaching and learning process.
1. Presentations
Microsoft PowerPoint helps you to create any type of a presentation you want. PowerPoint allows you to draw diagrams using a library of shapes and connectors. You can use it to create a variety of graphs, including bar graphs, pie charts and line graphs, from your data.
PowerPoint comes with a library of clip art and audio files which you can also include. You can also use PowerPoint to make animated slides. PowerPoint also allows you to share your presentation via a projector.
2. Tutorials
A tutorial refers to a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.
Depending on the context a tutorial can take one of many forms, ranging from a set of instructions to complete a task to an interactive problem solving session (usually in academia).
You can use PowerPoint to make tutorials and worksheets for educational or training contexts. Instead of using slides, you can also print these slides onto paper and give students to study or work from.
3. Games
A game refers to an electronic game or board game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
Microsoft PowerPoint is used for creating educational games to enhance teaching and learning process in a classroom particularly for younger learners. You can set a quiz game by using a set of question slides followed by the answers. You may use a whiteboard as the projection screen.
Examples of Microsoft PowerPoint games are Car Race, Horse race, Big wheel, Align the stars, Behind the Box 8 and Behind the Box 16.
4. Animation
Animation refers to the process by which you can see still pictures and words (texts) moving from one position to another position.
You can use PowerPoint to make very attractive and interesting animations.
PowerPoint's animation features allow you to make individual elements move around the screen in a variety of different ways.
5. Posters
A poster refers to a public piece of paper conveying information through texts (words) and graphic images (symbols or pictures). It is usually designed to be displayed vertically on a wall or window and is large enough to be seen and read from a relatively short distance. Its main target audience is the person walking by.
A poster must convey its message with immediacy and purpose, because people on the street are often in a hurry.
Posters are sometimes huge and can be seen from a long distance and may appear along highways (on bill boards) or on the sides of buildings. Posters may also appear in much smaller versions, sometimes like a postcard, and are called handbills. Whatever the size or shape, posters have a job to do and that is to convey information.
Posters carry many kinds of information:
Other Types of Presentation Software
- CustomShow
CustomShow is a presentation software program used mainly for businesses and companies with more than 25 employees. CustomShow allows users to create a library of slides that combine images, video, text, and Adobe Flash content. Users customize presentations by drawing slides from the library. Updates made to slides in the library are automatically shared with all users in a company.
ClearSlide
ClearSlide is a sales communications platform providing web-based services that cover many aspects of the sales process. It can upload files from Keynote, PowerPoint, PDF, Excel and other formats. It is good with Video, online delivery and slide sharing.
Prezi
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas. The product employs a zooming user interface (ZUI), which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media, and allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D or parallax 3D space on the Z-axis.
Slideshark
SlideShark is the award-winning app used by sales professionals and other presenters worldwide to present and share PowerPoints via their chosen devices such as iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch the way they were meant to be seen accurately and professionally every time.
Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck is the simple presentation software that you can use to create and share inspiring presentations. With this software you can create stunning slides. You can also easily import photos from Google Drive, Facebook and other popular sites.
SlideDog
SlideDog is a powerful presentation tool that seamlessly switches between multimedia presentation files and makes it easy to present like a professional. SlideDog mainly takes all of your documents, presentations, pictures, or video and places them into a play list that can be moved around and presented in a seamless way.
Powtoon
PowToon is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create presentations and videos that are animated, interesting, and engaging.
MediaShout
MediaShout is a presentation software tool for religious institutions and churches to easily present ministry messages. It is a powerful platform that can be utilized by churches of all size and combines.
The software works well with the team that is managing the media and productions during any religious service but particularly during the sermon.
How to Open Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
To create any presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, you have first to know how to open this program.
2. Select All Programs
3. After selecting All Programs, click Microsoft Click PowerPoint 2013, then you will see Microsoft PowerPoint screen
4. Select Blank Presentation, you will see Microsoft PowerPoint Window on a screen
How to add contents in a slide
Any presentation you create by using Microsoft PowerPoint is made up of a number of slides.
The term slide refers to a single page of a presentation that contains placeholders (text boxes) which hold different types of contents, including text and images.
Some placeholders have placeholder text, which you can replace with your own text. Others have thumbnail icons that allow you to insert pictures, charts, and videos.
Now, to add contents in a slide follow the following steps:
1. Select the Slide
2. Click in the Placeholder (text box) and type the text or click an icon (thumbnail) to insert a table, chart or picture.
How to save a Presentation
It is important to save your presentation whenever you start a new project or make changes to an existing one. Saving early and often can prevent your work from being lost. You will also need to pay close attention to where you save the presentation so it will be easy to find later
The term save refers to copying data from a temporary area to a more permanent storage medium.
To save your presentation, you have to follow these steps:
1. Locate and select the Save command on the Quick Access Toolbar.
2. If you are saving the file for the first time, the Save As pane will appear in Backstage view.
3. You'll then need to choose where to save the file and give it a file name. To save the presentation to your computer, select Computer, then click Browse.
4. The Save As dialog box will appear. Select the location where you wish to save the presentation.
5. Enter a file name for the presentation, then click Save as shown in Figure 110
The presentation will be saved. You can click the Save command again to save your changes as you modify the presentation
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How to Close and Exit a Presentation
To close your presentation, you have to follow the following steps:
1. Click the Close button on the Title Bar at top right corner of Microsoft PowerPoint Window
2. Now, you have succeeded to close your presentation after clicking a Close Button