Nowadays, PowerPoint is an educational tool for teaching and delivering materials in classes. It was basically developed for presentation and not essentially for teaching and learning in a classroom. Its applications in teaching and learning settings should provide better means of communicating information to the students. Used thoughtfully, PowerPoint can enhance your teaching sessions by providing a roadmap, reinforcing what you say and allowing you to use graphics and other multimedia to clarify understanding and to support different learning styles. In this paper, first we will look at general design principles that apply to any PowerPoint presentation. Then, we will see how teachers can use PowerPoint presentations specifically in their teaching. Finally, the ways that it might be employed within the classroom besides the simply didactic and look at how an educational model might be applied to act as a framework and checklist for design.
