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In order to captivate and garner an audience’s attention, sometimes you have to go over the top just to do so, but what if the design of your presentation and delivery was actually the reason audiences find it more captivating. This is where the “power” of PowerPoint comes along. PowerPoint is a simple yet complex presentation graphics package brought to us by Microsoft. It provides presenters with everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers many of the other Microsoft office tools such as; word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools, and best of all it is designed to be easy to use and learn.

 

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The Principle of Multimedia learning that I would associate with a tool such as PowerPoint has to be the Modality principle. This principle as described by Richard E. Meyer states that “people learn better from graphics when it is accompanied by narration rather than from graphics and printed text alone.” To me, this shows that keeping presentations simple and implementing visual instruments can help the audience learn more about what you are trying to present and thus can make your presentations more effective. Most of the time it can be difficult to maintain the attention of an audience but using the modality principle and taking advantage of what it has to offer, can help with the appeal of one’s presentation.

 

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