With the popularization of the computer, the education investment increased, the school running conditions improved, multimedia classroom had walked into a middle and primary school, many teachers have mastered computer technology, use the multimedia for teaching assistant means modernization.

Many IUP students have only limited opportunities for overseas experiences due to limited time, budgets and personal financial constraints. Political science majors and social science education majors, however, need a broad overview of the politics, economics, culture and society in different countries as part of their major requirements. Comparative politics has traditionally been a difficult course to teach, attracting little enthusiasm by undergraduates.

PowerPoint is a presentation tool that is simple for students to learn and use. The variety of pre-designed slide layouts is easy to fill in and encourage students to keep to simple statements to support their point. The ability to add sounds, motion, and color and multimedia objects motivates students to learn more about technology and the software itself, too.

Just as it is a powerful presentation tool, PowerPoint is a powerful collaboration tool. Students do not need to be familiar with how to create a presentation to use it; the technology skills required include clicking in the box and typing, which makes this a way to introduce PowerPoint to children as young as fourth or fifth grade.

As is known to all, multimedia with light color and sound of the students can intensely stimulate audio-visual organs, intuitive and clear, the visual and audio combination, in line with the youth's psychological characteristic, can create the best teaching situation, increase students' interest in study, maximize the classroom teaching capacity, improve teaching efficiency, improve the quality of teaching. Teachers in making courseware can easily introducing high quality teaching resources, and according to necessary to make and modify, in the process of teaching, as long as easily click the mouse, scenes, appear in the students' own sight, reduced the teacher's work. if the classroom does not have computer, but you can also play PPT as video on digital player or DVD player. Here is the PowerPoint to video free software which can permit you to convert PowerPoint to video format. Student reactions to the use of PowerPoint have been overwhelmingly positive. Surveys distributed to students during the semester asked students their reactions to a variety of statements concerning the use of PowerPoint in the classroom, using a five-point feeling thermometer 

One additional advantage of using PowerPoint is the ability to easily produce handout sheets with the bullet points clearly printed out. These were produced in the three-slides-per-page format, allowing students plenty of room to write additional information from class lecture and discussion. These sheets are then photocopied as a course pack by a local vendor and available to students at the beginning of the semester.

But recently there have been most articles written by PPT experts putting forward the PPT worry of PPT teaching and question, think PPT abusively use too much, it will can lead teachers and students to depend on PPT, damage the students' learning initiative, prevent the normal students thinking exists and that the students' independent, cooperation, and explore learning way, some physical and chemical experiments changed into PPT, students only see but can't do. The problem solving process changed into teacher demonstrates PPT. A professor computer, TV and books paper media carries on the comparison, audio-visual media easy to cause the student to obtain certain perceptual knowledge, from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge, still needs student experience, hands-on, independent thinking.

Alternatively, students could be provided with a simple presentation with only one slide containing the prompt. After the brainstorming session, students would create new slides with their recorded ideas arranged differently. For example, one slide might contain the ideas arranged from best to worst and the next from silliest to strangest.

About author:

Author is a university teacher for teaching computer, he spend most of his time to make study of the PPT teaching, and develop a practical PowerPoint to DVD converter software to change PPT to DVD for viewing and learning.