Powerpoint Software

I think the one of the most useful things about PowerPoint that most people have never heard of is PowerPoint Software.
And by software I mean simple user interactive information presentation system. Using slides to illustrate things around a concept. Having a home page with things to click on that bring you to new slides and those can have embedded video, pictures or other content to view and then return to a home page. Saving the PowerPoint as a presentation only so it is not editable and can only be used as a display for the end user.
There are many places that this could be useful in a classroom. At a classroom computer students could select the file or you could have a PowerPoint app built to help find presentations you have made and use a portal to the current information. This way you can have people exploring information without help from a teacher hopefully adding to the information you have presented.
This could also be used at home either from a web page or distributed somehow for home use. People could have the information for a time and then an in class quiz or something to ensure people have viewed it.
Some of the topics that would work really well are thing like History or Science topics where you have many different types of media to use in teaching. Documents, pictures, sound could all come together in an presentation to be explored in a more interesting way then simply clicking a web page or many files in a folder.
I think this kind of thing is a great way to get students involved in a technological way but easy to design and build applications for specific topics quickly customizable for classes as needed.

ERIC SMITH