WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT POWERPOINT?

What is Microsoft PowerPoint ?

Microsoft PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program currently developed by Microsoft. PowerPoint's predecessor, "Presenter", was created by Forethought Inc., and PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. PowerPoint is useful for helping develop the slide-based presentation format, and is currently one of the most commonly-used presentation programs available.

PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector. Slides may contain text, graphics, sound, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely. The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.

PowerPoint provides three types of movements:

1. Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations.
2. Transitions, on the other hand, are movements between slides. These can be animated in a variety of ways.
3. Custom animation can be used to create small story boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move.

PowerPoint provides numerous features that offer flexibility and the ability to create a professional presentation. One of the features provides the ability to create a presentation that includes music which plays throughout the entire presentation or sound effects for particular slides. In addition to the ability to add sound files, the presentation can be designed to run, like a movie, on its own. PowerPoint allows the user to record the slide show with narration and a laser pointer. The user may customize slide shows to show the slides in a different order than originally designed and to have slides appear multiple times. Microsoft also offers the ability to broadcast the presentation to specific users via a link and Windows Live.

PowerPoint can is a big help in each one of us. It helps us present our reports easily. Not only students could benefit from it, but also the employees. In their work presentations or business proposals. 

WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SUBJECT?

My Instructional Technology Subject 

Instructional Technology (IT) is a field concerned with improving the efficiency and effectiveness of learning, performance improvement and instruction through:

• Designing instruction (including all the phases of activity from needs assessment to evaluation)
• Applying learning theory to instructional design
• Selecting delivery systems and designing techniques for a given delivery system
• Assessing human characteristics
• Conducting process and product evaluation
• Managing change and adopting innovations
• Building teams and managing projects
• Integrating instruction with other factors that influence human performance
• Implementing delivery to reach learners when they need it
• Using technology in support of the development and delivery of instruction.

Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and resources for learning.

• Instructional Design seeks to teach how to plan, develop, evaluate and manage the instructional process effectively to ensure improved performance by learners.
• Instructional Technology's goal is to understand how people learn and how to best design instructional systems and instructional materials to facilitate that learning. We also use appropriate technology to aid us in the design and delivery of the instruction.
• Instructional Technologists are today's problem solvers. They look to understand performance problems and design solutions to those problems. Sometimes the solution is instructional; other times the situation requires a non-instructional solution.

The Instructional design approach considers instruction from the perspective of the learner rather than from the perspective of the content, the traditional education and training approach.