Powerpoint Presentation Multimedia Software

Attributes-the properties or characteristics of an object

Animation- A visual effect that gives object the look of movement and life

Audience handouts- printouts of your electronic presentation that your audience can use to follow along and to take notes.

Bulleted List -a list of items preceded with bullets instead of numbers or other objects.

Design template- provides consistency in design and color throughout the entire presentation; determines the color scheme, font and font size, and layout of your presentation.

Drawing- allows you to create diagrams using shapes such as arcs, arrows, cubes, rectangles, stars, and triangles.

Graphing- allows you to create and insert charts into your presentations.

Hyperlink- a link you click to display another webpage or document within a presentation; can consist of specially formatted text, buttons, and hotspots on graphics or pictures.

Master slide-theslide that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning

Menu bar- list each of the menus in applications and usually appears near the top of the application window under the window title bar.

Multimedia- combines text, graphics, animation, video, and audio.

Multimedia effects-adds interest and keeps your audience attentive by adding effects, such as sound and video to your presentation.

Object- any element that appears on a slide, such as clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips.

Outlining- allows you quickly to create your presentation using an outline format.

Placeholders- empty objects on a new slide.

Presentation file- the file you save to disk that contains all the slides, speaker's notes, handouts, that make up your presentation.

Presentation graphics software- allows the user to create documents called slides to be used in making presentation.

Slide- an individual screen in a slide show; the basic unit of a presentation.

Slide show-a series of slides displayed in sequence; controlled manually or automatically.

Speaker notes- notes that include the slide as well as comments or points you may want to remember.

Storyboard- A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the slides planned for a presentation.

Target audience-A specific group of people with the same characteristics or traits; for example agegroup, educational background, etc.

Title slide- generally the first slide in a presentation; introduces the audience to the presentation.

Toolbar- provide quick access to frequently used commands; a lot of the buttons are the same from program to program.

Toolbox- resembles a toolbar, but hold items such as drawing tools rather than buttons that perform commands.

Transition- a special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show.