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PowerPoint Presentation Perfections and Pitfalls
or How to Get an A and pass one Speech Proficiency task By Sheila Jones, Englewood High School, 2008
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General Rules • Each person in the group will receive a separate grade. • Each person in the group should speak roughly an equal amount of time – at least THREE (3) minutes for proficiency. • Each group must turn in a properly formatted MLA Works Cited, utilizling a minimum of FIVE (5) sources per group. • For this speech to count as one of the TWO speeches that each student needs for the speech proficiency, a person must receive a grade of C- or better. • Speeches will be evaluated using the Englewood Schools Speech proficiency form. • To ensure success, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.
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That's Plagiarism! Presentation Rules
• Only place key ideas and images on the PowerPoint slides. • Synthesize information from a variety of sources. • Do NOT cut and paste from your sources. That's Plagiarism!
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Raise your hand if you can read the words.
What not to do… Zeus: Roman name Jupiter. Supreme god of the Olympians, Zeus was the father of Perseus and Heracles, the latter of whom once wrestled him to a draw.Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. When he was born, his father Cronus intended to swallow him as he had all of Zeus's siblings: Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera. But Rhea hid the newborn in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete. (To this day, the guides at the "cave of Zeus" use their flashlights to cast shadow puppets in the cave, creating images of baby Zeus from the myth.)When he had grown up, Zeus caused Cronus to vomit up his sisters and brothers, and these gods joined him in fighting to wrest control of the universe from the Titans and Cronus, their king. Having vanquished his father and the other Titans, Zeus imprisoned most of them in the underworld of Tartarus.Then he and his brothers Poseidon and Hades divided up creation. Poseidon received the sea as his domain, Hades got the Underworld and Zeus took the sky. Zeus also was accorded supreme authority on earth and on Mount Olympus. Raise your hand if you can read the words. Watch what happens when I read the text. Why is this NOT GOOD?
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• Led coup d’etat with Poseidon and Hades, his brothers, against
What to do… • Son of Cronus and Rhea • Led coup d’etat with Poseidon and Hades, his brothers, against Cronus to become supreme god Goya - “Saturn”
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Here’s what you should do…
• Son of Cronus and Rhea • Led coup d’ etat with Poseidon and Hades, his brothers, against Cronus to become supreme god Correct way to save images: Find image on URL. Save full size image into folder on computer. Import image from folder. Do NOT cut and paste. Path will be lost; images may be lost. TIPS Cite sources of images. When getting images, get full size image for best resolution. Goya - “Saturn”
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More Tips Hard to read Easy to read Hard to read Easy to read
Pastels are hard Bold is easier Pastels are hard Brights are better So what do you think the rules are for text and background colors?
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Make it BIG! Small is hard to read
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Use basic, ordinary fonts that are common to
Plain, subtle backgrounds can be effective. Use basic, ordinary fonts that are common to almost all computers, or they might disappear! It’s imppperatave that u run spelchek, so you don’t look stpid. Too many special effects can be really, really annoying.
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Pick designs and images that are compatible.
Strange juxtapositions, don’t you think?
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And a few more tips… • Make sure you get a piece of the plan that will make you look good. • Then make your part really, really good. • Find good, credible, valid sources and extract the key information. Significantly MORE INFO should be in your presentation than on your PowerPoint. • Have your visuals augment your presentation, not BE your presentation. • Have a group plan. • Who does the intro? Who does the conclusion? • What are others in your group doing while someone is speaking? • Who’s running the equipment? Acting? Etc.
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Most importantly… • Speak to the class. Do NOT read.
Print copies of your slides to hold or make note cards. Speak facing your audience. Do NOT turn your back to the audience. Practice, practice, practice before the big day. Know what you are saying and how to pronounce all the words. Prior planning prevents pitifully poor performance.
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