ICT+Functions

The ICT Function use of a Mircrosoft Power Point presentation stimulates student learning by presenting montional slide presentation using flip co-ordinational concepts to transform enlargements and reductions of symetery. Students are able to read and co-ordinate slides inorder to create designs that relate to the worldly environment. By using a Power point presentation as a centre base for a mathematical lesson provides interactivity relations between student and teacher control. Students feel they are incontrol of their learning environment by independantly working with themselves and gaining an achievement of results immediately. Work results for students are able to be saved and can be used as a future reference. Mircrosoft Power Point 2007 has numerous upgrade of functions,to name a some that would apply to learning within the classroom is: (Business Communication Quarterly, 2005)



"Microsoft Office power point allows the user to create your own custom layouts that can contain as many placeholders (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.) as desired; elements such as charts, tables, movies, pictures, [|SmartArt graphics], and clip art; and even multiple slide master  (slide master: The main slide that stores information about the theme and layouts of a presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positions.) sets with custom layouts for different slide topics. You can also now save the layouts that you customize and create for future use.The diagrams that you received from the designer, however, were saved as images that you could not edit. Now, with SmartArt graphics, you can create editable illustrations of your information in an Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation simply and without the aid of a professional designer. You can add stunning visual effects to your SmartArt graphics, shapes, WordArt, and charts, including three-dimensional (3-D) effects, shading, reflections, glows, and more": Reference: Locations of PowerPoint 2003, commands PowerPoint 2007 . This can also be found at the following link for Mircrosoft:http://www.mircosoft.com/powerpoint