WHAT IS A PRESENTATION?

WHAT IS A PRESENTATION?

• It's an attempt to communicate information by speaking, and using a visual backup presentation medium to help the audience understand and remember.

Main Ideas•Often a presentation shows just main ideas and phrases. Pictures or animation may be used to "spice it up".

Text Boxes• A basic unit of information in

PowerPoint is the "text box". • This is actually a graphic element

that can contain plain or formatted text.

• Often the text box in PowerPoint will have a default format as a bullet list.

Title Page• Let's start with the Title Page. It

has 2 text boxes.

When you're done typing in a text box, how do you finish? You don't hit Enter. This will simply make a new line in the text box. What you do is click outside of the text box.

What is PowerPoint used for?

• Lots of people use it. – In aerospace we had to make lots of progress

reports to management. – Other people will use at conferences when

they deliver a paper to an audience of their peers.

– I recently learned that lawyers are using it in court to present evidence (better than shuffling through a lot of papers).

– It can be used to run informational kiosks in public places.