Tools for Information Literacy

What to prepare to do

layout optional format and design control esthetics

You may use any presentation tool you choose,
but the resultant presentation needs to be capable of running independently without you.

Layout - worth 23% of total grade

Task	Condition
Templates or themes	Include a minimum of 8 slides Use a design template or a theme and explain in the notes why you selected it If you choose Prezi, embed such discussion deeply into each visual so that we can dive in to see it, but that it won't disrupt the flow of your presentation 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 slide format. If you succumb to using bullet slides, you will lose 5 (percentage) points from the final (percentage) grade for each one.
Master Slides	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
Organization	Include an overview slide that lays out where your presentation is going to go. You may use a bullet slide format if you wish. 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.
Tool control	At least one slide should have a different background from the rest of the slides (it could be the hidden slide).

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Optional

Using your overview slide as a guide, include some sort of visible navigation device throughout the presentation so the viewers understand where they are in the presentation.

This is OPTIONAL but is a good thing to do. If you don't use this device, make sure you keep your slides organized in some fashion.

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Format & Design - worth 22% of total grade

Task	Condition
Illustrate your points	Use images or pictures as the primary focus of slides in your presentation. Use a design template or a theme and explain in the notes why you selected it You may wish to incorporate screen shots on some slides. At least one of the images you use should come from the Web somewhere (and should include due credit for where you found it, either on the slide or in the notes section). Add text and/or graphics to at least one of the pictures (i.e., add some explanatory text to a picture using a text box or a similar device).
Control of animation tool	Demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects appear on command. Demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects disappear on command.

Task

Condition

Illustrate your points

Use images or pictures as the primary focus of slides in your presentation.
Use a design template or a theme and explain in the notes why you selected it
You may wish to incorporate screen shots on some slides.
At least one of the images you use should come from the Web somewhere (and should include due credit for where you found it, either on the slide or in the notes section).
Add text and/or graphics to at least one of the pictures (i.e., add some explanatory text to a picture using a text box or a similar device).

Control of animation tool

Demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects appear on command.
Demonstrate facility with custom animation by making objects disappear on command.

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Control of tools - worth 30% of total grade

Task	Condition
Transitions	Have at least one visual slide transition device
Hiding slides	Hide at least one slide. Have a way to get to the hidden slide and back to the presentation from the hidden slide.
Linking	Link at least one object to something outside of the presentation.
Narration and timing	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.

If any of the required components would disturb the look or feel of your presentation, put them on hidden slides and use the notes to explain that you used these hidden slides solely to demonstrate your skill with a particular tool.

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Esthetics and design decisions - worth 30% of total grade

Task	Condition
Esthetics	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.
Formatting Decisions	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. 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 will be a subjective judgement on my part on how well your explanations indicate that you understand the PowerPoint tools you are using. 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.
Judgments	This will be a subjective judgement on the part of the viewer of the presentation 70-79% of total esthetics and design decisions points for a presentation adjudged as competent 80-89% of total esthetics and design decisions points for a presentation adjudged as good 90-94% of total esthetics and design decisions points for a presentation adjudged as excellent 95+% of total esthetics and design decisions points for a presentation adjudged as something new