Ten Uses of PowerPoint Presentaions

 Academic:

1. Classroom Teaching: Power Point presentations help in improving the quality and impact of classroom teaching. The presentations can be made interesting and exhaustive, with supporting information to be accessed only if required.

2. Subject Tutorials: It is good for online and offline tutorials on wide range of subjects, user age groups and types.

3. Seminars: It is handy for students to make their presentations on assignments.

4. Meetings and Consultations: Decision makers can use Power Point for meetings and discussions to keep the focus on core issues.

5. Conferences: This is a popular use. Usually academicians use power point as it easy to present as well as print and distribute handouts or publish online, as per requirement.

• Professionals & Business

6. Sales & Marketing: Power Point presentations are quick to prepare and can be structured for use such that the same presentation can be used for a specific target audience by selecting specific slides.

7. Events and Trade Shows: It is good to use in trade shows and events as it can be run by first timers or not so computer savvy exhibition support teams.

8. Corporate meetings: Ideal for the busy corporate for focused presentations with statistical information presented using graphics to facilitate easy comprehension and avoid monotony of too many numbers.

9. Corporate training and conferences: Widely used by trainers as well as corporate for conferences, workshops and training sessions.

• Public

10. Information Kiosks*: Power point is a good tool for presenting layout and other information at public places like museums, exhibitions, libraries, transit terminals etc. It can be made interactive for the public to view, learn and proceed.

  *kiosk: a small building where things such as sweets, drinks or newspapers are sold through an open window:
a station kiosk