PRESENTATION PACKAGE : DEFINITION, EXAMPLES, FEATURES, AND USES - SS1

 PRESENTATION PACKAGE 

DEFINITION, EXAMPLES, FEATURES, AND USES

DEFINITION OF PRESENTATION PACKAGE

A presentation program is a software package used to display information in the form of a slide show. This is specifically designed to allow users to create a presentation of ideas by stringing together text, images and audio/video.

EXAMPLES OF PRESENTATION PACKAGE

Common examples of presentation package includes:

a. MS (Microsoft)  PowerPoint
b. Slide slider
c. Slide Wiki
d. Audience (software)
e. Ease
f. Emaze etc.
g. Audience
h. Google Slides
i. Visme
j. Haiku Deck
k. Prezi
l. Canva

m. Beautiful.ai

n. Microsoft Sway

o. Zoho Show

p. Slide Bean

FEATURES OF PRESENTATION PACKAGE

a. Creation of Slides: A slide is a single screen of a presentation, and every presentation is composed of several slides. Slides contain any mixture of text, images, video, animations, links and sound
b.  Animation: Animation effects allow the various elements on each slide to appear after a certain amount of time or when a presenter presses a button.
c. Transitions: This is how the presentation software “moves” the display of one slide to another. Transitions usually include dissolving from one slide to the next or the current slide being moved in some way to show the next slide as though it was underneath.

USES OF PRESENTATION PACKAGE

i. Easy to create colourful and attractive design/presentation
ii. Easy to convey messages to the audience
iii. Easy to present and maintain eye contact with large audience
iv. Enhances the assimilation of information
v. It makes the presentation interesting
vi. It supports multimedia
viii. Useful for developing speaker interaction
ix. It supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
x. It engages multiple learning styles
xi. It improves audience focus
xii. It supports easy ways to organize ideas and information
xiii. Presentation in the absence of the speaker.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1. Define presentation package

2. List five (5) examples of presentation package.

3. Differentiate between animation and transition

4. State four uses of presentation package.

Using Presentation Package (Ms- PowerPoint)

 Opening the application

 To open an Ms power point application

1. Click on start

2. Navigate to all programs

3. Navigate to Ms office

4. Click on Ms- office power point

I. Create A New presentation

The following tips will guide you how to create a new presentation using both old and new version of Ms-PowerPoint

Find and open power point, (Open the application)

When the dialog box appears, read and click on the OK button

Select blank Presentation and click on the ok button

In the New Slide dialog box. Select the title slide option

ii. Insert Slide contents:

You can type the title of your presentation, and a subtitle on this slide or add graphics and pictures.

Text: To enter text:

·      Click and type the title of presentation in the click to add title area

·      Click and type a subtitle in the click to add subtitle area.

Graphics or pictures

To insert graphics or pictures:

a. Click in the click to add title or click to add subtitle area where you inserted the text previously.

b. Press the enter key on the keyboard to bring the cursor down

c. From the ribbon bar, click on the insert menu

d select the type of graphics options from clip art, shapes and pictures button from the

menu

iii. Animating contents: This is one the features that distinguish presentation packages from

others. It allows users to create motion effects on their slides.

iv. Adding New Slides: After completing your title slide, you can create additional slides. To create additional slide.

1. Choose home tab

2. Click the New slide button in the slide group. The office Theme display box appears and displays several layout templates.

3. Click the layout you want; the layout appears in the slide pane of the presentation package.

4. To add an additional slide show to your presentation, do one of the following

5. Right click the slide layout, a menu appears, click layout and select, the layout you want

6. And then choose the slide layout you want

V. Saving the presentation: To save a PowerPoint presentation

1. Click on office button

2. Select Save from the displayed options

3. Select the directory to store the document by clicking on arrow on the, save in box

4. Click on the File name, type the desire document name

 VI. Running Slide show

After the creation of slide, you run the slide show by doing any of the following

1. Press F5

2. Choose the slide show tab. Click from the beginning button in the start slide show group

3. Click the slide show icon in the button right corner of your screen. Your slide show appears

on your screen