Creating Dynamic Multimedia Presentations: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

Creating Dynamic Multimedia Presentations Using Microsoft PowerPoint goes beyond the traditional step-by-step manual by exploring specific design and delivery techniques that lead to superior PowerPoint presentations. Astonish clients, managers, and peers using the skills acquired right here. Prepared by Dr. Carol Lehman, an expert presenter and leader in the business communication field, this resource will ensure that you will design and deliver effective presentations. You will learn specific design techniques that allow you to utilize the full functionality of Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 to develop creative, dynamic, and highly effective business presentations that will set you apart. Covers instructions through Windows XP.

Lehman (Mississippi State University) shows how to merge text, graphics, sound, and animation in stimulating presentation tools for live and remote audiences. In this third edition, she offers ten projects, step-by-step instructions for PowerPoint 2003, and advice on slide design and technology troubleshooting. Readers will learn how to adapt a slide show for a live presentation delivered by videoconference, prepare a slide show with voice narration for the Web, and create a media presentation with Microsoft Producer. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dr. Lehman is a professor of management in the Management & Information Systems Department at Mississippi State University, an AACSB-accredited school. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching business communication. Dr. Lehman earned a bachelor's and master's degrees in business education from the University of Southern Mississippi, and her doctorate from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Lehman teaches organizational communication, a core requirement for all business majors, and an MBA-level multimedia presentations course. Classroom instruction to traditional and distance students is supplemented with web accessible materials that enrich and enliven the learning experience. Her multimedia presentation students perfect design and delivery of media-rich presentations delivered to a variety of distribution points. She is actively engaged in research and a frequent presenter at the national and regional meetings of the Association for Business Communication, for which she and Dr. DuFrene sponsor the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award. Her consulting and training activities for industry have focused on multimedia development, business presentations, and written communication.