Computer Lab October 15, 2009
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Today you will be working on your PowerPoint Presentations. This will be the last day of the computer lab so keep your eye on the time. If you need more time than you need to make time during lunch or after school to use the school computers.
The requirements for the assignment are listed below, you also have the yellow handout where the assignment is described.
Possible Order of Slides: (1) Person – background information of the person(s), goals & accomplishments, struggles or controversies, connection to the Cold War. (2) Place or Event – Place/Location, people or countries involved, goals/accomplishments, connection to Cold War.
Final Project
Due Monday October 19, 2009
(All projects will be saved onto my computer on Monday)
Presentations: Monday and Tuesday
Final Exam
Wednesday October 21, 2009
50 multiple choice
Treaty of Versailles – Cold War
Requirements
Length: 5 slides (3-5 bullet points per slide)
- 1 slide title Page
- Four Slides dedicated to content (5 Ws and an explanation of the Cold War connection)
- Last Slide should list the websites used for research (At least 3 sources)
- Background: Choice of background should be consistent from slide to slide, be appropriate for the topic and should not distract from the text/graphics. First slide must include a Creative Title, your topic title, and your name
- Animation and Font: The choice of your font formats (color, bold, italic) should help readability of content and not deter from it. Also, it is often more effective to have bulleted points appear one at a time so the audience listens to the presenter rather than reading the screen. Each bullet point is required to have animation.
3. Spelling & Grammar: There should be no misspellings or grammatical errors. Remember, a PowerPoint Presentation should include short bullet points so you should be able to catch spelling and grammatical mistakes more easily.
4. Content: There should be an explanation of your topic and the context of the time period in which it take places in. Think of the Five W’s: Who, What, When, Where, and Why. Each presentation should have illustrations to help support their topics. If you’d like to have a slide dedicated to pictures this slide will not be counted as part of the 5 slides needed.
- The PowerPoint presentation is not a substitute for your explanation. Each slide should have short bullet points which you will explain in further details. There should not be whole paragraphs in your slides.
5. Delivery: Students should not read the presentation. Practice what you will say after each bullet point to further explain the ideas. (You may use index cards to help you).