Presentation Tasks
Step-by-step
Don’t have to Use Powerpoint
but the resultant presentation needs to be capable of running independently without you.
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Templates or Themes 
you will use a design template or a theme and explain in the notes why you selected it. This outline was built in Word. 
Word > outline view > Level one = titles Level two = equals bullets
Save as rtf file. Make sure file is not open when you try to import it.
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Don’t rely on Bullets for the bulk of the presentation 
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Use the default bullet format for ONLY the overview and summary slides. 
Every other slide in the presentation should use a format other than the default bullet format. If you succumb to using bullet slides, you will lose 5 points from the final grade for each one. 
Logo Master Slide
 (row 7) View > slide master > insert > text > graphics
you will create a personal logo and apply it to the master.
Auto Date in Footer 
(row 8) Windows: tell me what you want to do: date Mac: help: date or
Insert > header & footer
you will modify the top level master slide to include an automatically updated date as a footer component.
If Prezi, put a date somewhere in the visual field.
Overview Slide
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Include an overview slide that lays out where your presentation is going to go.
May use a bullet slide format if you wish.
Summary Slide 
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Include a summary slide that wraps up your presentation with the message you want the audience to go away remembering.
Here too you may use a bullet slide format if you wish.
Different Background
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At least one slide should have a different background from the rest of the slides (it could be the hidden slide). 
This will not be something to do in Prezi
Visible Transition Device 
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Using your overview slide as a guide, include some sort of visible transition device throughout the presentation so the viewer understands where he or she is in the presentation. 
Add hyperlinks to this device so you can control movement within your presentation from the objects on the slides. 
If Prezi, ensure the viewer understands the flow of the presentation and can tell how far the presentation has come and how far is yet to go.
Use Visuals to Illustrate points 
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Illustrate your points; use visuals; keep text to minimum; use at least one source from the web; credit the source
Annotate a slide 
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Annotate at least one of the pictures (i.e., add some explanatory text to a picture using a text box or a similar device). 
This is what Prezi is all about, so it is applicable for Prezi as well.
Animation: Move something
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demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects seem to move. 
Prezi itself seems to move.
Animation: Make it Appear
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demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects appear on command. 
Animation: Make it Disappear 
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demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects disappear on command
Draw and Group objects 
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demonstrate facility with the drawing tools by grouping several objects into a new single object and explain what you did in the notes section of the slide where the object is located
Have one slide transition
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have at least one visual slide transition device
Hide one slide 
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Hide at least one slide
Link to hidden slide 
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have a way to get to the hidden slide and back to the presentation from the hidden slide
Link to a web page 
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link at least one object to something outside of the presentation
Add Narration 
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Add narration to the presentation. Introduce each slide with the words you would use were you to present it live.  This will also require you to time your presentation so that it will run unattended.
You may hide slides with required components that don’t work
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You can hide any slide containing required steps that disturbs your flow or your look or feel; use the notes to indicate this. 
Make it self-running 
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Use any tool you wish to create a self-running presentation (Vimeo, a movie, a packaged for file presentation - it's your choice, but ensure that the tile will run automatically and fully on a windows laptop, even if you create it using Mac-specific software)
Esthetics 1
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The slide show is a well-organized, logically-connected presentation of a topic
The formatting from slide to slide is consistent
The slides are easy to read and presentation friendly.
The viewer knows where he or she is in the presentation during the presentation
Esthetics 2
Competent 70-79
Good 80-89
Excellent 90-94
Something new 95+
This will be a subjective judgement on the part of the viewer of the presentation (in this case, it will be my judgement)
Document your project with speakers Notes 
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Use the speaker's notes feature to discuss the creative decisions that you used to decide on the features to use on the slides in the presentation. 
Be Brief
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The discussion needs to be as long as necessary to convey your thoughts and you need not feel compelled to go into detail, unless you feel it necessary. 
This is Subjective
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This will be a subjective judgement on my part on how well your explanations indicate that you understand the PowerPoint tools you are using.  
Don’t need to comment on every slide
You don't have to comment on each slide, but you do need to let me know that you have thought about what you did on your slides.