Animated GIF

Term explanation  •  Category PowerPoint

Definition and meaning

An animated GIF enables images to be played in a specific order. It is created when several individual images are saved in a GIF file.

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Gifs make your presentations more lively. Another way to make presentations more dynamic is with polls. With SlideLizard you can insert polls directly into PowerPoint and let your participants vote on their smartphones.

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Audience Response System (ARS)

Audience Response Systems (ARS) are technical solutions that are used in presentations in order to increase the interaction between the presenter and the audience. There are various forms of ARS that offer different features.

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Screen presentation

A screen presentation is a graphic support and accompaniment to a spoken presentation. A popular programme for creating screen presentations is PowerPoint.

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources are free learning and teaching materials provided on the web. They have an open licence (e.g., Creative Commons), which allows anyone to use and benefit from these resources.

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Manuscript Speech

For a manuscript speech, the speaker has an entire manuscript to read from. The benefit is that, as every single word is scripted, no important parts will be missed. However, speeches that are fully written down often seem unnatural and may bore the audience.

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