World Journal of Research and Review (WJRR) ISSN: 2455-3956, Volume-1, Issue-1, November 2015 Pages 17-20 PowerPoint Presentation as a Valuable Communication Aid for Effective Teaching Anjali Hans most likely still be the Centre of attention, using PowerPoint Abstract — PowerPoint is a valuable communication aid that appropriately as a valuable communication aid to buttress is now being used in many classrooms. PowerPoint is a type of their rhetoric. Teachers, public speakers, and business presentation software that allows one to show colored text and seminar presenters are rhetoricians, engaged in acts of images with simple animation and sound. PowerPoint is just one persuasion: they seek to persuade or to educate, and to use of many types of presentation software. Hyper-Studio is another. PowerPoint is the most popular because it comes PowerPoint as a visual aid to make ―the logical structure of bundled with Microsoft packages. PowerPoint will run on either anargument more transparent‖ (Parker, 2001, citing Macintosh or Windows PC's. The files are easy to create and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of can be e-mailed as attachments. They can be posted on or downloaded from websites, and can be converted to html psychology, Steven Pinker, p. 6). Parker (2001, p. 6, citing webpages. Not only can PowerPoint presentations be traded Nass) argued that PowerPoint ―empowers the provider of and exchanged, they can also be modified to fit any individual simple content ... but risks squeezing out the provider of classroom setting. Although other presentation software may process — that is to say, the rhetorician, the storyteller, the have the same capabilities, PowerPoint is the most common, and it is user friendly. PowerPoint can be used to teach new ideas poet, the person whose thoughts cannot be arranged in the and concepts to students. I have used PowerPoint presentations shape of a [PowerPoint] slide.‖ All users of PowerPoint much more for practice and drills. should respond to Postman's (1993) call and pause to reflect Index Terms — PowerPoint, Valuable, Communication, Presentation, Software, Classroom. about any new technology, such as PowerPoint, and how it affects, however imperceptibly, their engagement with what I. POWERPOINT PRESENTATION and how they teach. They should engage in conversations and PowerPoint presentations are great for reviewing ideas which critique of new technologies, rather than to accept them have already been taught. After the students have learned and blithely and unquestioningly. As a society we should be practiced something, it is good to see a presentation. mindful that PowerPoint, in concert with allied computer and PowerPoint presentations are easy to obtain, modify, and Internet-based technology, is having a profound effect on create. They are versatile and a great asset to any classroom. higher education. PowerPoint is not merely a benign means of Good presentations may take time to produce or adapt, but facilitating what educators have always done. Rather, it is they can be shared and used year after year. They can be used changing much (perhaps most) of how we engage with our for whole class presentations and reviews, for drills, or for students and the disciplines which we profess. In the past individual work. PowerPoint presentations run on both three decades there has been a decisive shift in the media that Macintosh and Windows platforms. Files are small unless have been used to communicate messages in educational settings. We have gone from the era of ―chalk -and- talk‖ and many pictures and sounds are added. Small files are easily stored. These presentations can be viewed with a computer occasional flip-charts to overhead transparencies and to monitor, TV, or a projector. There are some technical points PowerPoint slides. And, consistent with Warnick (2002), we feel it is important to recognize that any ―new forms of that need to be considered when using PowerPoint or other presentation software. First we must have a computer. communicating call for new ways of thinking about communication processes‖ (p. 264). It is a powerful and Second, there are several ways to present to students. There are three basic ways to display presentations. ubiquitous communications technology and aid to teaching A regular computer monitor and business presentations. In 2002, it was estimated that more than 400 million copies of PowerPoint were in An ordinary television set circulation and that ―somewhere between 20 and 30 million A special projector PowerPoint-based presentations are given around the globe each day‖ (Simons, 2005). Those numbers seem likely to My view is that whether a PowerPoint presenter is the Centre have grown exponentially since then. of attention or more of a stagehand will be a function of the A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an communication ability of the presenter. Good presenters will audience. It is typically a demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can Dr. Anjali Hans, Assistant Professor in English, University of Dammam also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or Kingdom of Saudi Arabia offering, as with the presentation of a debutante. It Includes: 17 www.wjrr.org
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