Tools for Information Literacy | Week ⑮ 
Task ⑤ Professional presentations

Task

Thinking about what to present and how to make it work for you

Be heard by being seen through effective presentation design

Your task this time is to create a self-running, very professional, presentation. You may use this opportunity to create a presentation that both displays expertise with presentation tools and is a tool to convey a message to a specific audience.

Ensure that your presentation,
from start to finish,
takes no more than five minutes in total.

You may prefer another presentation tool for this task, but not all of them can do all that the task calls for. And PowerPoint is currently the industry standard for presentations and you may be compelled to use it. Therefore, we will use PowerPoint, and it has all the components you need.

Remember, your presentation will be viewed on a standard Windows laptop, or displayed using a standard Windows desktop. Don't be in for an unhappy surprise when something that works on your laptop does not work on the classroom computer, or on the instructor's laptop.

Presentation Topic

You may choose the topic of your presentation.
If you cannot think of a topic you want to use, select one of the following:

A possible topic	Some thoughts about it
create a visual résumé that introduces you to a potential employer or to someone or some organization you want to hire/select you for something	If you have a need to create a presentation that satisfies a requirement for another class you are taking, you may use this presentation to do just that.
create a presentation talking about your home town, home state, or anything else associated with your roots. Make it a product that will help the viewer learn about the topic and entice the viewer to want to learn more	Even though this presentation will be intended to satisfy a requirement in another class, you do need to display the requisite skills listed on the specifications
do a critique of this class - what did it cover, what was good about it, what could be done better. Be critically thoughtful and make recommendations. We will take the comments to heart and put them into effect where possible, but your grade on this task and this course will be based solely on how well you meet the specification on the specs sheet.	the two objectives should be complementary. In particular, the specs preclude use of bulleted lists in most cases, so you may have to make significant modifications to your existing presentation
comment on the utility of one or both of the newsletters you had to subscribe to. Talk about the newsletter, the authors, the topics they focus on, and on how useful the subscription turned out to be for you.	and, where one or more of the specifications is not appropriate for the class the presentation is made for, you can display your skill with the tool by using hidden slides

Condition

Your goal is to create a single presentation that simultaneously satisfies two objectives:

1. it will be a self-running presentation that incorporates slide timing and your narration
   • this presentation will run automatically just as if you were delivering the presentation live
   • we will see the slides, hear your narration, and observe images and objects in the order and timing you wish them to appear
   • we will use this version to decide on the points for Esthetics
2. but the presentation should be created as if you were, in fact, going to present it live
   • it should be set up with delivery tools, in particular with on-screen navigation tools, so that you could present it and have total control over how it would run
   • we will cover this requirement in more detail during the delivery session
   • we will use your design to decide on the points for formatting decisions

Working in groups for tasks

You may, if you choose to, do this task as a group project. These are some guidelines to follow for group work in INLS161.

Note who your work group members are and be sure you know them by face and by email address.
They do not have to all be from your recitation section. Group members may be from different recitation sections.
As you work together, follow this process for your work:

• every member of the group should do all the components of the task. Do not parcel out portions of the task to individuals
• once you have all done as much as you can on the task, share your work - in a manner that works for all the group members
• look over what your peers have done in comparison to what you have done and, if needed, modify your version accordingly
• once all of you have compared your versions, determine among yourselves which version is the one you want to turn in to be graded
• one individual will share the version with their recitation instructor and also copy the share URL in the Canvas assignments space
• save the finished product using the standard file name structure for this class
• the individual who submits the version to be graded will include the names of the group in the submission
• the voices of every member of the group should be heard in the recorded narration

The saved presentation will include both the visuals and any accompanying sound files.

We will all see a selection of the presentations together in class together during the scheduled exam time for this class

Standard

Task 05 is worth 10% of your INLS161 grade, so this task will be worth 10 points in total. Each of the sub-elements is listed on the gradesheet.

Save the finished product using the standard file name structure for this class.
An example of a standard file name might be johnson_pat_20261204_task05_presentation.pptx

Save your .pptx file to your UNC OneDrive space and share it with your recitation instructor. Or, save it to your Opal space and share the URL needed to download with your recitation instructor. The recitation instructor can then download it directly from your OneDrive space.

Provide that file by using Canvas. Just enter a comment with a link to the shared file in your OneDrive space, or enter the URL for the shared file stored on Opal.