Digital Presentation

Hello students, welcome to Kwickprep. Have you ever sat through slides full of tiny text, and stopped listening? A good digital presentation does the opposite. Today we will learn to create, design, animate, run and share a presentation.

First, the meaning. A digital presentation is a set of slides shown one after another on a screen. Slides can hold text, pictures, charts, audio and video. We use them for class projects, office meetings and seminars. Common software is LibreOffice Impress, Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Each program saves in its own format. Impress saves as .odp, and it is free and open source. PowerPoint saves as .pptx. Google Slides keeps the file online, and you open it in a browser. All of them can export a PDF, which others can view but not easily edit.

Presentation software has several views. Normal view is where you edit one slide at a time. Outline view shows only titles and points, so you can type text quickly. Slide Sorter shows small pictures of all slides, called thumbnails, so you can drag them into a new order. Notes view shows a slide with the speaker's notes. Slide Show view plays the slides full screen.

Let us create a presentation. You can start from a blank file or from a template, which is a ready-made design. Add a new slide with Ctrl+M. Choose a layout, which arranges boxes on the slide, like title and content. These dotted boxes are called placeholders, and you simply click inside them and type.

Slides can hold much more than text. You can insert pictures and shapes, like arrows and boxes. You can add tables and charts, which turn numbers into a picture. You can insert audio and video clips. A hyperlink is clickable text that opens a website or jumps to another slide.

Design gives your slides one clear look. A theme applies the same colours and fonts to every slide. The slide master stores the style for all slides, so one change updates them all. The background can be a colour, a gradient, or a picture. For good design, use high contrast, few words and big fonts.

Students often mix up two effects. A transition acts on the whole slide, as it changes to the next slide, like a Fade. An animation acts on one object inside a slide, like a bullet point flying in when you click.

Animations come in four groups. Entrance effects make an object appear, like Fly In. Emphasis effects draw attention to an object already on the slide, like Grow or Spin. Exit effects make an object leave, like Fade Out. A motion path moves an object along a line or curve you draw.

Pause and predict. Slide four has a Wipe transition. A picture on slide four has a Fly In animation, set to start on click. What happens first? The Wipe runs as slide four comes in, and the picture flies in only after you click.

To present, open the slide show. F5 starts from the first slide. Shift+F5 starts from the slide you are on. The arrow keys move to the next or previous slide, and a mouse click also moves forward. Escape ends the show and returns you to editing.

After presenting, you may print or share. You can print full slides, notes pages, or handouts with several slides on one page. Export as PDF, so the layout looks the same on any device. In online tools, share a link with edit or view only access. And before any real show, rehearse your timings.

Here are five tips that teachers and examiners like. Keep one idea on each slide. Use about six points or fewer. Show a picture instead of a long paragraph. Use only a few simple animations, so they help and do not distract. And give credit for images or facts taken from other sources.

Let us revise what we learned today. Impress saves as .odp, PowerPoint as .pptx, and Google Slides works online. The views are Normal, Outline, Slide Sorter, Notes and Slide Show. A theme and the slide master give all slides one look. A transition acts on the whole slide, and an animation on one object. F5 starts the show, Escape ends it, and you can export as PDF.