Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Introduction to PowerPoint

3/18-3/20

Notebooks will be handed back today.

Introduction to the presentation for the Person of the Century Award.

Requirements for PowerPoint Presentation:

1) Thirteen total slides.

2) Three of those slides will include your title page, works cited, and bibliography.

3) One slide towards the beginning should give a brief background of your person.

4) You will have to include a minimum of three reasons explaining why your person deserves to win the Person of the Century Award.
Here are some suggestions:
- Your person is influential in a positive way.
- Your person is admirable.
- Your person has overcome something challenging in their life in order to achieve certain goals.
- Your person has helped the community and taken part in volunteer work for the good of humanity.
- Your person gives hope to others and has leadership abilities.

5) In order to make those three reasons valid you must back them up with authentic evidence and examples. What has your person actually done that will prove an attribute they might have? How are you going to demonstrate that your person actually portrays those qualities?

6) You must have a minimum of three examples for each reason.

7) You must have some visuals within your PowerPoint.
- Pictures of your person.
- Video clips of your person speaking.

8) You should have an audio clip of your person speaking you could use podcast for them as well.
- You could also have an example of another credible source
speaking about your person in a positive way.
(This is only a suggestion not a requirement! Audio clips may not be available depending upon the person you have chosen.)

*Good job on your research! It is alot of work but keep it up!

*The person that wins the award will receive a prize!