The
Microsoft PowerPoint Interface
Introduction
Originally designed for the Macintosh computer,
the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Dennis
Austin and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc. In 1987, it was
renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for
the name coming from Robert Gaskins In August of the same year, Forethought was
bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($28.3 million in present-day terms),
and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to develop the
software further. PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, the same
day that Microsoft released Windows 3.0.
PowerPoint introduced many new changes with the
release of PowerPoint 97. Prior to PowerPoint 97, presentations were linear,
always proceeding from one slide to the next. PowerPoint 97 incorporated the Visual
Basic for Applications (VBA) language, underlying all macro generation in
Office 97, which allowed users to invoke pre-defined transitions and effects in
a non-linear movie-like style without having to learn programming.
PowerPoint 2000 (and the rest of the Office 2000
suite) introduced a clipboard that could hold multiple objects at once. Another
change was that the Office Assistant was changed to be less intrusive.
As of 2012, various versions of PowerPoint claim
~95% of the presentation software market share, with installations on at least
1 billion computers. Among presenters world-wide, this program is used at an estimated
frequency of 350 times per second.
POWERPOINT 2010 FEATURES AND BENEFITS
You
can use Microsoft power point to creat interactive presentation containing
text, art, animation, and audio and video elements.
It is probably the
best known presentation graphics program available.
If your computer
arrived pre loaded with Microsoft office, you most likely have power point too.
Power pint allows
teacher to be creative with activies such as:
Flash cards
Field trip slide
shows
Autobiographical stories
Interactive book
reports
Music class recitals
Group slide shows
Poetry readings
Science presentations
Student portfolios
It also allows
teachers to:
Present information
or instruction to the entire class
Create graphically
enhanced information and instructions for the learning enters
Create tutorials, or
quizzes for individual students.
Display student work
and curriculum materials or accompany teacher presentations at parent open
houses or technology fairs. Presentations can be set to run automatically
during such events, providing a slide show of classroom activities and events
as parents tour your classrooms or school.
They can be modified
and used over and over again, each time you teach those lessons.
Microsoft PowerPoint
2010 gives you more ways to create and share dynamic presentations with your
audience than ever before. Exciting new audio and visual capabilities help you
tell a crisp, cinematic story that’s as easy to create as it is powerful to
watch.
In addition,
PowerPoint 2010 enables you to work simultaneously with other people or post
your presentation online and access it from virtually anywhere using the Web or
your smartphone.
CREATE
EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTATIONS
PowerPoint 2010
delivers new and improved tools to add power to your presentations.
·
Embed and edit video from within PowerPoint. Now you
can add fades, formatting effects, bookmark scenes, and trim videos to give
your presentations a professional multimedia experience. And since the embedded
videos become part of your PowerPoint presentation, you don’t have to manage
additional files when sharing with others.
Use new and
improved picture editing tools—including versatile artistic effects and
advanced correction, color, and cropping tools—to fine-tune every picture in
your presentation to look its absolute best.
Add dynamic 3-D slide transitions and more realistic animation effects to grab your audience’sattention.
Top
10 Benefits of PowerPoint 2010
- Bring
more energy and visual impact to your presentations
- Work
with others without having to wait your turn.
- Add
a personalized video experience
- Imagine
just-in-time show and tell.
- Access
your presentations from more locations and on more devices.
- Create
high-quality presentations with stunning graphics.
- Captivate
your audience with new transitions and improved animations.
- Organize
and print your slides more effectively.
- Get
things done faster.
- Work
on multiple presentations and multiple monitors.