Animation with Power Point: A Fog Cutter

Abstract

This article demonstrates how to take a traditional approach to the development of a lesson in a management science course and replace it with an approach that takes advantage of course technology available today. The traditional approach contains elements that are hard to present to students. The new approach takes advantage of presentation software. Examples, selected from presentations for a management science course at Buffalo State College, feature use of animation techniques that were developed with Power Point. Use of this animation technique in Power Point presentations offers a very sharp tool for cutting through the often foggy, dull, and at times even boring details of the mathematical analysis associated with management science and decision theory. Animation offers a dramatic and exciting contrast to the alternative of scanning through several pages of printed graphs or tables in a textbook.