The rapid development of information and communication technologies and the growth of their role in the educational process of the school requires a revision of the approach to learning as a whole. Obviously, the effectiveness of the learning process currently depends on how deeply the new information technologies of education are integrated into the already familiar, traditional technologies.

From this point of view, the main information and communication technologies used in the educational process include:
Office technologies that allow you to prepare most of the educational materials in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Paint;
Network technologies that deliver educational materials within the local school and global Internet networks and regulate access to them;
Telecommunication technologies that organize interaction between users in the framework of e-mail, teleconferences, BBS boards, forums and chats;
A wide range of specialized application software that provides school workflow, various control activities, management of an educational institution;
Tools for developing software systems for educational purposes (from HTML documents to virtual worlds and virtual laboratories).

Microsoft PowerPoint
One of the most popular is PowerPoint - a tool for creating and showing presentations. The purpose of this system is to help the user quickly prepare a set of slides for demonstration during a presentation. Microsoft PowerPoint presentations can be shown using a computer or a special projector, printed on paper, serve as handouts for lecturers and speakers, etc. In all cases, Microsoft PowerPoint allows you to prepare an effective and professionally designed presentation, effectively organize work on it, rationally plan and to show the prepared materials.
The teacher has a wide range of options. Among these opportunities can be distinguished basic and special. The main features of the system are directly related to the preparation of the presentation and its display in front of the audience. The presentation is formed in the course of the user's work with the system as a whole. Microsoft PowerPoint provides ample opportunities for creating and designing individual slides. A Microsoft PowerPoint slide can include text inserts, drawn shapes and pictures, photos, other graphics, charts, organization charts, movies, and sound.
Thanks to Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, the user can easily compose a presentation from materials prepared using other programs and systems. The use of ready-made templates allows you to maintain the design of the presentation in a single style; the spelling and style checking feature helps the user to avoid grammatical errors and stylistic mistakes in text inserts. Microsoft PowerPoint slides can also have features that would not be possible with regular slides. This should include, first of all, animation and sound effects, the organization of slideshows, timed.
Presentation can be shown in different ways. At the same time, Microsoft PowerPoint provides many additional features designed to improve and facilitate the presentation of slides. So, the teacher can, depending on the audience, exclude individual slides from the show or include them again; highlight one or more “adapted” ones in the main presentation. Slides can be changed with a mouse click or automatically after certain intervals. The teacher can use a special "pen" and make notes on the slide, which are then instantly eliminated.
Special features of Microsoft PowerPoint versions 2000-2003 dramatically expand the range of application of the system. So, with the help of Microsoft PowerPoint, you can keep a slide timing of the lesson; you can also display teacher notes and notes. The system, therefore, helps not only to prepare and show the slides accompanying the presentation, but also to build the lesson itself and plan it in a rational way.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can organize online conferences in which the user can participate as a teacher or as a student. The new version of the system provides extended options for saving a presentation as a Web page.
Thus, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 implements a wide range of functions related to the preparation and presentation of slides, as well as to optimize the preparation and conduct of classes in general.

Microsoft Word
When conducting practical exercises using the Word 2000 word processor and older versions, the following are prepared:
distribution materials for various purposes,
workbooks, in which the student completes the task at home, and the answers are checked in the classroom,
test tasks with open answers that students fill out.
Microsoft Word 2000 is part of Microsoft Office 2000 and is the latest version of the popular Microsoft Word word processor. It has ample opportunities for creating, designing, editing and saving documents of various types in various formats.

Among the didactic possibilities for the creation and execution of documents, the following should be mentioned:
a set of texts in any languages with any set of special characters;
a rich selection of fonts, styles and font effects;
any kind of paragraph formatting using an unlimited number of styles;
automated creation of lists and tables, automatic numbering of headings;
inserting illustrations (storing illustrations in separate files and in one file with the main one;
document); any kind of layout of drawing and text;
using templates to create a document.
The subject teacher needs to be familiar with almost all issues related to the creation and execution of a document; including the ability to work with the formula editor, diagramming and some others.

Editing a document is the most important task for which Microsoft Word is designed. The needs of editorial work with a document are served by a whole arsenal of Microsoft Word tools, among which we would single out as the most important:
contextual search and replace;
transition to a given position of the text and the use of bookmarks;
work with document structure;
spelling and grammar checking.
You also need to be familiar with a wide range of issues related to document reviews (notes), working in the revision display mode, etc. The Microsoft Word word processor allows you to load, view, edit and save documents in a wide variety of formats. One of the most attractive today is the radically improved ability to save Microsoft Word documents as Web pages, which opens up much wider prospects for the user of Microsoft Word 2000-2003 compared to previous versions in the field of creating and posting publications on the Internet.
The teacher also needs the ability to use document processing automation: the creation of automatic tables of contents, a system of cross-references, footnotes, etc.

Microsoft Excel
Excel 2000-2003 is most suitable for using office technologies in laboratory classes. With the help of this spreadsheet, it is possible to create laboratory journals on a number of school subjects, including those related to the tasks of modeling mathematical, physical and chemical processes.
Microsoft Excel 2000-2003 is a powerful system for creating and using spreadsheets. However, the real possibilities of this system are much wider than the computational potential of a spreadsheet.

The main provisions corresponding to the groups of possibilities should be identified:
Creation of spreadsheets that use, along with arithmetic operations, a library of built-in functions: mathematical, statistical, logical, financial, etc.
Working with specialized value formats: dates, monetary units.
Creating databases and the most basic functions of managing them: sorting and filtering data, entering and searching for data using a form.
Possibilities of processing numerical and other data: selection of the value of a parameter or several parameters, preparation of summary tables.
Construction of charts and graphs of any kind based on the data presented in the table. Various options for the external design of charts (with and without indication of the scale of the axes, with and without a legend, etc.).
Calculation of a table of function values from one or two variables and plotting based on the substitution table.
The entire set of features listed here was largely implemented already in previous versions of Microsoft Excel 2000-2003, but many of these features in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2003 have been improved and expanded. This applies primarily to the preparation of pivot tables: the procedure has been made much more convenient; in addition, the user can now prepare summary charts.
With the help of spreadsheets, a computer user can radically facilitate the solution of many everyday tasks of an applied, mainly computational nature.

Graphic editor Paint
Graphics, like other forms of art based on the principles of harmony, has the ability to activate or relax a person, relieve stress and stimulate the mind and feelings to conscious creative activity.
The use of graphics in educational computer systems not only increases the speed of information transfer to students and increases the level of its understanding, but also contributes to the development of such important qualities for a specialist in any field of activity as intuition, professional instinct, imaginative thinking.
In the standard distribution of Windows in the “Standard” group there is a graphical editor Paint. The most elementary graphic editor Paint can be used in mathematics and computer science circles.
Interesting are the tasks for constructing an isosceles or equilateral triangle without using a grid, dividing a segment into a given number of parts, symmetrical figures. Students are used to using a ruler and a compass, but there is no compass in the graphic editor and you cannot measure with a ruler - you need to know the rules of mathematics.