4. MS PowerPoint – A two-dimensional presentation program.

A. MS PowerPoint Vocabulary

1.      Presentation – a Power Point document

2.      Normal view – a view in Power Point that displays the presentation in three panes: Outline, Slide, and Notes.

 3.      Slide sorter view – Displays all the slides in a Power Point presentation in reduced size so that you can organize them easily.

4.      Notes Page view – view in Power Point that displays a slide and a designated area for typing speaker’s notes to accompany the slide.

5.      Slide Show view – view in Power Point that shows the presentation as an on-line presentation.

6.      Placeholder – a reserved space for text in a slide.

7.      Object – a graphic or other item or set of items that can be moved and resized as a single unit.

8.      Stacking - layering an object on top of another object in a slide.

9.      Animation effects – special transition effects and graphic effects that cause elements in presentation to display in a more interesting way.

10.      Transitions – the way a slide first appears in a slide show and obscures the previous slide.

11.      Timing – the amount of time a slide displays during an onscreen presentation.

12.      Image Properties – properties of a picture that can be modified using the Image Properties dialog box suck as brightness, contrast, and color.

13.      Color scheme – a set of coordinated colors for each element in a presentation.

14.      Promote – increase text level in outline view.

15.      Demote – decrease text level in outline view.

B. Here is an example image I made in MS Power Point