It's worth spending the time to expose yourself to a wider range of features of a given program to understand the possibilities of how it could help you work more effectively and productively. An essential tool used by faculty for communicating with students, colleagues and administrators. Given the power of e-mail as a communication tool and the time most people spend using it, the ability to become more efficient in its use can pay big dividends. Presentations Whether it is in a class or at a conference, a good bit of educators' work involves presentations. Presentation software allows seamless conversion of content from word-processors, rapid develop of attractive slides, easily added multimedia and transition effects, recorded voice annotation, and the ability to link to web resources or automatically convert the entire presentation to web pages.
Presentations are easily editable and can be rapidly adapted for different purposes.
The speed at which basic presentations can be developed allows more time to be spent thoughtfully considering the content. There is a seemingly endless supply of information and resources on the Internet that is useful and relevant to instruction and research. The skillful operator will find or call upon useful resources quickly. However, those with less experience are often doomed to considerable time-wasting and less fruitful results. The Web is where its at - or at least where its going where education is concerned.