Investigating Application for Presentation in Learning Activities

Abstract

The title of this study is Investigating Application for Presentation in Learning Activities.
The aim of this study is to identify the dominant application used by students in their
presentation tasks and what are the reasons students use the application. The method used is
this study descriptive analyses. Data collected are used from 20 students by giving
questionnaires in 3 universities in Bandung. The theory used in analyzing the data are Lin
(2003), Vgotsky (1986) and Dewey (1938). This study reveals that 14 out of 20 students chose
PowerPoint slides for presentation as it is simpler, easier to use, and no need internet
connection. Whereas result from male questionnaire reveals that they chose to use canvas as
it has feature for creating graphic or poster needed in their presentation. It can be concluded
the result of this research shows that Microsoft Office PowerPoint is used by most of
universities students (14 out of 20) in learning activities especially for delivering materials.
Out of the 20 respondents, it can be shown that the most used application for presentation
goes to Microsoft PowerPoint with 14 users (66,70%), six others voted for Canva (28,60%)
and one other does not use any of three application choices. The reason students choose this
application since it is considered simple, easy to operate, that there is difference between
female and male in choosing application for presentation. Female want application which is
easy to use, but male prefers application which provides more features to explore.