PowerPoint is an application designed to help the speaker or lecturer assemble professional looking slides to be used in oral presentations. The result sadly is often an unending stream of slides with bullet lists, animations that obscure rather than clarify the point and cartoons that distract from rather than convey the message. This paper examines what the speaker can do to avoid 'death by P...

CPoint („Content for PowerPoint“) ist ein semantischer Editor für ELearning Content in Form von MS PowerPoint-Objekten. Er ist als zusätzliches Menü innerhalb des Präsentationseditors MS PowerPoint (PPT) realisiert. Diese invasive Implementierung einer Open Source Software innerhalb einer proprietären Applikation basiert zum einen auf einer user-zentrierten Herangehensweise, die die Bekanntscha...

This study introduces a learning environment integrating annotations with a dual-slide PowerPoint presentation for classroom learning. Annotation means a kind of additional information to emphasize the explanations for the learning objects. The use of annotations is to support the cognitive process for PowerPoint presentation in a classroom. The construction of the learning environment is based...

Despite the prevalence of PowerPoint in professional and educational presentations, surprisingly little is known about how effective such presentations are. All else being equal, are PowerPoint presentations better than purely oral presentations or those that use alternative software tools? To address this question we recreated a real-world business scenario in which individuals presented to a ...

T he PowerPoint presentation is the primary medium for medical education. Everyone involved in medical education has experienced the sinking feeling of watching a presentation and thinking ‘This is important information! I really could use a copy.’ We describe a novel mobile device strategy which allows the dissemination of PowerPoint presentations at the time of delivery. PowerPoint presentati...

E-learning is becoming very important in fields where access to learning materials needs to be brought about effectively and efficiently. Our experience in dealing with e-learning systems of different types has shown that several aspects influence the design and the evaluation of such systems, primarily the educational aspect, since the main purpose of such systems is to achieve educational goa...

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