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- Volume 29
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2006
Technology: Using Hyperlinks to Unleash the Power of PowerPoint
Del Siegle
Students of all ages enjoy creating electronic presentations where they can share their interests and knowledge. At an early age, they can quickly learn to create sophisticated-looking presentations (Hertzog & Klein, 2005) that often rival those of professional presenters. One of the more popular presentation software programs available to students is Microsoft’s PowerPoint®. Unfortunately, most users of the program fail to explore the creative options that Microsoft has slowly been incorporating into the program. Instead, they stay with the built-in, user-friendly templates and default settings that result in each presentation depicting a clone of the previous. This article shares one of the most underutilized features of PowerPoint: the hyperlink function.
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