PowerPoint Presentations
What is Powerpoint?
PowerPoint is an
application that will help you assemble professional looking slides to be used
in oral presentations. Each slide can contain text, pictures, sounds, colorful
backgrounds and transitions. It also has special features to help you
produce quality web pages for the Internet. You can also include
hyperlinks in your PowerPoint presentations that take you to other documents or
web resources.
Objectives:
Students will create a slideshow presentation entitled "ALL ABOUT ME" consisting of at least 4 slides.
Students will be able to:
Create/modify a multimedia project, citing sources of copyrighted material.
Time Required:
4 days
Vocabulary:
Multimedia, storyboard, presentation, document, slide, layout, template, format menu, alignment, edit, crop, transition, animation, hyperlink
Materials:
All About Me Storyboard (completed by
students prior to this lesson)
PowerPoint software
PowerPoint Step by Step Microsoft Word help
document
All About Me Sample PowerPoint Presentation
Procedures:
Review the elements and
terminology of multimedia presentation using PowerPoint as a tool.
Require the students to complete the All About Me Storyboard, filling in the
information about themselves.
Discuss the need for planning in preparation for creating the slide presentation.
Group students in groups of three
and have them present their slideshow to each other.
Evaluation: All About Me PowerPoint Presentation Rubric
Extension Activities: Students will add more details to their slides. They must have a Title Slide, Information on place of birth, Information on their Education, Family information including portrait, Likes and Dislikes and the last slide is their choice (something they would like to share with the rest of the class, something that makes them unique).
Home Learning:
Create a presentation of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Seven slides with information on each. This assignment will take about a week to complete.