PowerPoint 2000 is a powerful presentation tool that can be used by both educators and students to present information to students and peers.

**Use PowerPoint to write lecture notes, meeting notes, and many other presentations. You can also record your lecture directly into the slide show and then save the presentation to the Web for individuals to review.

**Search the World Wide Web for the topic you are studying. By downloading videos, sounds, and pictures you can bring the world right into your presentation. You can also record sounds directly into a slide show if your computer has a microphone.

**Teach foreign language phrases and simple stories using the voice narratives partnered with illustrations.

**Create multimedia presentations for reports and group projects.

**Show the results of surveys and questionnaires using charts and graphs in a PowerPoint slide.

**Create slide shows using the Clip Gallery to teach vocabulary in the foreign language classroom.