-Presentation

Presentation
=**What is a presentation?**= =A presentation is when a person: =
 * ====is being presented or presenting ====
 * performance
 * demonstration, lecture, etc;

=**How can Presentations be used for Educational purposes?**= ====They allow the user to create slide shows that include sound, graphics, and text. These can range from simple to highly impressed choreograhe. Students can produce narrated stories, multimedia presentations, action mazes, and simple slides.====

adapted from Joy Egbert
=**Advantages:**=
 * ====Students do research on a topic.====
 * ====Students become more confident as a result of presenting.====
 * ====Students become accountable for their involvement in learning.====

=**Disadvantages:**=
 * ====Students may become overwhelmed from researching. ====
 * ====Students may lose interest and become frustrated. ====

=**From a teachers perspective: **=
 * Some features such as animations and backgrounds can distract the audience from the actual information in the presentation.
 * File size can become quite large on medium to large presentations.
 * Takes quite a bit of time to create a complete presentation.
 * Activates students prior knowledge in assitive technology.
 * Touches all modalities (visual, kinesthetic, tactile, and auditory).
 * Presentation is presented on real world applications.

=**The following are examples of Powerpoint Presentations:**=

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This is a powerpoint readerLittlePPT is a powerful powerpoint reader. Just open, read and save the powerpoint presentation. In addition, it is a free Powerpoint Processor, it will read your PPT presentations, create new PPT presentation, edit and save Powerpoint files, it can used as a light weight word processor, and it is Windows compatible.

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====Using the Prezi tools, you can navigate the canvas, and focus on different objects by moving, zooming and even rotating the proverbial ‘camera’. Your dynamic Prezi presentations can be used in an online environment, embedded on your blog or via the Prezi website.====