For instruction using ICT, teacher prepare multimedia contents and connect to computer(internet, CD-Rom) or VTR and projection TV to present to students. Projection TV which is usually within 50 inches is not fit for every student to watch. In this case, ‘Proshow’ can help to enlarge specific part of screen and to create motivation of students. This utility is really useful to present important part to students by enlarging as soon as quickly. Besides, It’s possible to capture necessary part and write with mouse just like electronic board.

It’s useful for instructon using ICT as below :

① Enlarging specific part : It’s effective to enlarge necessary part for
... presentation using Zoom function.
② Emphasizing important part : It’s effective to underline and input using Pen,
... Highlight function like an electronic board.
③ Motivation for student : It’s useful to make sound effects using Play Sound
... function.
④ Time-limit : It’s useful to limit time for discussion or activity using Time Out
... or Count Down function.
⑤ Guessing pictures or words : It’s good for guessing activities using Blank
... Square, Blank Circle function.

Introduction ‘ProShow program’ as below :

(1) Introduction ProShow

This product is both a presentation effects package and a presentation delivery package. It includes presentation tools for enhancing your slide presentations. It also includes a slideshow facility for creating quick and easy presentations.

This is a useful utility for enlarging screen, emphasizing, motivating students, making time-limit and capturing special part of screen.
The size of ‘Proshow.zip’ is only 128KB but it has enormous functions and you can access automatically by releasing the file where you want without any special process of installation.

(2) How to use ProShow

You can double click the file ‘Proshow.exe’ after releasing zip-file. When the program is first started, it automatically minimizes itself to an icon at the bottom of the screen. To access the configuration screen, double click on this icon.

① Tools : This is the part to select icons which are included in the toolbar.
... The dark gray area is the included in the toolbar. There are almost 70 icons
... and you can add icons as you want to. Toolbar can include 25 icons.

② Toolbar Trigger : This is the part to select the way to start ProShow and you
... could assign a right mouse double click as the trigger which pops up the
... toolbar.

③ Toolbar Location : This is the location of toolbar and this picture shows the
... location of toolbar as a left of the screen top.

④ Capture : You can capture images that you want to use easily by using
... Capture Icons(Capture Screen, Capture Window, Capture Area).

⑤ Slideshow : This includes an easy to use slideshow facility.
... To begin the slideshow, pop-up the toolbar and select the slideshow
... tool. To end the slideshow, pop-up the toolbar again and select the
... STOP tool, which has been automatically placed on the toolbar.

After Configuration, click a right mouse button and you can see the toolbar on the left of the top. All the tools can be accessed via a pop-up toolbar.