PowerpointPowerpoint is a presentation tool that makes it easy to combine text, graphics, charts, sound clips, ideas, data, and all sorts of information into interesting and effective graphical slides, handouts, or web pages. Teachers can create interesting and interactive lessons that can be easily modified. Students can design and present research projects in a new and exciting format and learn more about computer usage and applications.
The latest version PowerPoint 2000 also allows you to broadcast your presentation over the Web.
Take the Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 tour and find details on how to use PowerPoint 2000 on Microsoft's official website:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/default.htm
Hyperstudio is a software package for creating your own multimedia projects and presentations. It is designed for non-technical users and supports color, live recording of sounds, animation, Quicktime, laserdisc, and CD-ROM.
Have your Hyperstudio questions answered at http://www.hyperstudio.com/
Download Hyperstudio Plug-in for Mac or Win95/NT, and Acrobat Reader at HyperStudio Network : http://www.hsnetwork.com/
Placing documents on the web is a new and exciting format for publishing documents. You can produce creative web sites using plain HTML or any web publishing software appropriate to your ability and skill level. Teachers can design web sites that contain their assignments for the week, goals for the year and pictures of their classroom. Designing a web site could be a year long activity for an entire class. Included below are some popular web designing software programs.
FrontPage 2000 is a web designing software program that has many features
of Microsoft Office such as background spelling check and WYSIWYG Fonts.
It allows users to create web pages and manage the site on an Internet or
corporate intranet site.
Find links to how to use FrontPage and the FrontPage Tour at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
Adobe PageMill 2.0 is a web authoring tool that comes with a tutorial and is easy for publishers of any level to use. PageMill 2.0 was upgraded to 3.0 which contains many new features.
Adobe GoLive 5.0 is an authoring and site management tool used mostly by professional web designers. It allows you to create professional dynamic-database-driven web sites. It is tightly integrated with the well-known Adobe Photoshop and the newer Illustrator and LiveMotion. Find more information at
Finding a Server to Host Your Home Page for Free
Once a web page or web site has been created, it needs to be hosted by a server for it to be published on the Internet. Some Internet service providers will allocate you a certain amount of disk space to host your pages or site.
Tripod is a well-known web server that will host your web site for free without being your Internet service provider. Tripod has a template, Quick Page Builder, that will walk beginners through the steps of creating a web page. Others can create their own custom-made pages by using HTML on the Custom Page Builder.
For your own Free Home Page, download http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ Then register to become a member of Tripod's Free Homepage Builder and you'll get 50 MB of disk space free.
