BTA 8.01 Vocabulary

Windows Movie Maker

a desktop video program, created by Microsoft installed on every Windows computer. Allows you to create and edit movies to use to accompany your presentation, although you can also add still photos or graphics and create a slide show, just as in PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress.

template

a presentation that is already formatted with a slide design and may also include sample text to guide you in completing the presentation.

notes pages

a printout that contains a small version of the slide along with speaker notes.

slide

a single page of a presentation created with software such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress.

on-screen presentation

also called slide show; the presentation of all the digital slides shown one after another.

bullets

are small dots, squares, dashes or graphics that begin a short descriptive phrase.

placeholders

designated areas that can be used to easily insert text, graphics, or multimedia objects.

themes

formatting features that applies a background, colors, fonts, and effects to all slides in a presentation.

animation

movement of individual objects on a slide.

slide layout

prearranged sets of placeholders for various types of slide content.

handouts

printed copies of the presentation for the audience to refer to during and after the slide show. You have the option of printing various numbers of slides per page.

fonts

the character design, slant, weight, and size of text

impress

the presentation graphics in Open Office.

powerpoint

the presentation graphics program in Microsoft.

transitions

visual movement as one slide changes to another.