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.

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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

1. Bring more energy and visual impact to your presentations
2. Work with others without having to wait your turn.
3. Add a personalized video experience
4. Imagine just-in-time show and tell.
5. Access your presentations from more locations and on more devices.
6. Create high-quality presentations with stunning graphics.
7. Captivate your audience with new transitions and improved animations.
8. Organize and print your slides more effectively.
9. Get things done faster.
10. Work on multiple presentations and multiple monitors.