simple and fascinating presentations. Teachers may decrease their speech to avoid much explanation, and strengthen the essential point to students. In other word,
teachers will create an efficient and effective teaching to get the learning objective.
2. The Advantages of Microsoft Power Point
Generally, technology gives teachers much opportunities to create a more deeply impressive teaching. Teachers may utilize those all technologies with the
purpose to improve the quality of teaching. One of those technologies which is quite possible to use in the classroom is Microsoft Office Power Point. Power Point
provides a program to facilitate teachers design a high quality presentation, thus it allows teachers to be more creative in designing a learning material.
Delivering such knowledge to students via Power Point incorporates slides with graphics, sounds, texts, and colors. Clark and Pavio argue that information
which is elaborated through either visual or auditory association provides better memory than words.
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In another word, through interesting presentation, students will give more attention to the material; they will process the information better with the
help of either visual or audio elements. Therefore, the presentation via Power Point may not give big effect to teaching if teachers provide text into slides without images
or sounds. When teachers present the material, the first thing that should be done is
grabbing students’ attention. When teachers get students’ attention, it may cause the increase of students’ understanding because they focus on attending the presentation.
Referring to it, the better quality presentation makes the better teaching process. Harry Mills says that “seventy-five percent of what people learn comes from the
visual aid, 13 percent through hearing, and the rest through smell, taste, and touch.”
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Consequently, the utilization Power Point as a learning media is acceptable because
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Karen Gardner, Power Point and Learning Theories, Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal, Vol. 5, July 2011, p. 2.
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Harry Mills, op. cit., p. 57.
the impressive presentation can stimulate all students’ sense. So, why should teachers consider using Power Point in teaching? These following points are the advantages of
Power Point to answer the question. a. Power Point provides an encouragement and a support the material by
facilitating the presentation in a professional manner.
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It gives user a default template to design an easily clarity presentation, so, not only can
programmer create an interesting performance, but also teachers. b. It gains and grabs students’ attention by showing impressive and
memorable presentation, in other word, Power Point gives opportunity for students to notice the material more.
c. The software prepares simple slides that enables teachers incorporate only clear and briefly texts and add sophisticated visual and auditory media in
it. It is proposed to teachers deliver an exactly effective information. d. The files are easily printed and distributed in any form. Moreover, it can
be saved in a certain format to be presented or distributed again in which technology is available.
e. Delivering information through visual and audio system enables different characteristic of students, either visual or audio and combination of those
student learning modes. f.
Power Point has easy-designed animation programs which permits teachers to make a simple presentation with entrance, motion path,
emphasis, and exit. With those program, teachers can design a stimulating material to get heed of students.
g. Power Point can appeal to students’ senses, and motivate students by bringing such a comprehensible input in learning. Thus, it can help them
process the information well.
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Allan M. Jones, The Use and Abuse Power Point in Teaching and Leaning in Life Sciences, BEE Journal, November 2003, p. 2.
