CS5: INTRODUCTION TO PRESENTATION

Communicating effectively to a big audience is a challenge to many people. It should be noted, however, that versatility of ICTs has played a big role in enhancing the ease and impact of the presentation process. A presentation programme is supposed to help both the presenter with a range of tools to clearly structure his ideas and offer the participants with multimodal information that is engaging. There are many areas where presentations are used. Some of these include professional (work-related), education, entertainment, and for general communication. Presentation programmes can either supplement or replace the use of older visual aid technology, such as pamphlets, handouts, chalkboards, flip charts, posters, slides and overhead transparencies. There are a number of presentation software such as Microsoft power point, open office presentation, lotus freelance, Corel presentation, among others. Text, audio, graphics, movies and other objects are positioned on individual pages or slides in a given presentation. The "slide" analogy used in presentation software is a reference to the slide projector, a device that has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of better technologies. Slides can be printed, or (more usually) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the presenter. Transitions between slides and animation in each slide can be done in a variety of ways. Coming up with a good presentation requires a lot of input: planning, collecting information and constructing. Learning Outcome: The learner should be able to create and deliver a multimedia presentation.