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Understanding Electronic Presentations

Whiteboard, blackboard, poster, and slide presentations have been mainstays in the business and education worlds for decades, if not longer. The presentation of various kinds of data as a series of easy-to-read, visual summaries and diagrams remains an excellent way to share information with an audience.

In the computer era, applications called presentation managers have been developed to facilitate just this kind of educational presentation. Presentation managers include applications like OpenOffice.org Impress and Microsoft PowerPoint. By providing simple tools for creating visually appealing presentations, these applications help you to create a series of slides (similar in concept to slides in a slide ...