Business leaders need to be involved in information technology-any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information-processing needs of an organization. Search the internet to find examples of the types of technologies that are currently used in the field or industry that you plan to pursue (or are currently working in). For example, if you are planning on a career in Marketing, you would research customer relationship management systems, blogs, eMarketing, etc.
Create a PowerPoint Presentation with your findings. Include a brief overview of the types of technologies you found and how organizations are using them to achieve a competitive advantage.
FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
Number of Slides: Minimum of 15 slides and a maximum of 20 slides. Gradated penalty for too few or too many slides. This means that the more slides you are away from the 15–20 range, the more points will be deducted. Note:The slide count excludes the title and bibliographical slides.
Layout and Design: Slides must be easy to read and uncluttered (no more than 7 items to a line and no more than 7 lines to a slide). Keep it simple.
Font Size: Use standard font like Times New Roman or Arial. Use 36-point font for title, 28-point font for main points, and 24-point font for secondary points.
Footer: Include the slide number, title of your presentation, and your name in the footer (except on Title slide).
Background/Theme: Appropriate Foreground-Background Segregation (use dark text against a light background or white or light-colored text against a dark background. This creates contrast.)
Slide Transition: Apply slide transition to any TWO slides.
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS
Title Slide: Include your name, course name, Instructor’s name and title: Technology Tools.
Outline and Summary Slides: Slide 2 must be your outline slide, which will be a list of the topics you will cover. The summary slide recaps all the topics you have covered.
Contents: Include appropriate contents about the types of technologies and how these technologies are being used in your field or industry.
Custom Table: Include one Custom Table created in PowerPoint. Apply the “Light Style 2 – Accent 6” table style and center the table horizontally on the slide.
SmartArt: Include ONE SmartArt Graphic.
Animation: Include one custom animated chart. The actual elements of the chart must animate (e.g., individual bars of a bar chart displaying one after the other), not the chart itself (e.g., the chart moving across the screen).
Picture: Include TWO pictures of appropriate size, style, and formatting. Apply an artistic effect of your choice.
Video/Audio Clip: Insert a short appropriate video or audio clip to your presentation or audio clip.
a. If a video is used, Set the playback options so that the video starts playing automatically and rewinds after playing.
b. If an audio is used, hide the speaker icon during a slide show and set it to start automatically.
Hyperlink: Insert an appropriate hyperlink to an external Website (One of the sites used in your research).
List: The presentation must contain at least one bulleted list, one numbered list, and one customized list.
Screenshot and Screen Clipping: Capture and insert a screenshot or screen clipping into your presentation
Reference Slide: Minimum of TWO professional / scholarly sources cited using APA formatting. Sources must be cited on the slides as well as on the Reference Slide.
NOTE 1: Do not use unprofessional sources such as Wikipedia, About.com, Answers.com, Dictionary.com, How.com, or anything remotely similar. Examples of scholarly sources include textbooks, articles, academic journals, and conference proceedings. Scholarly resources are written by experts in their fields, grounded in research, and often refereed (reviewed and edited by researchers in the field). Examples of professional sources include: trade journals or magazines. Professional sources are written for a specific audience that works in certain field. They are not research-based. You can also use our course content (e.g., Read & Watch resources) as a source as well. UMGC has a top-notch, extensive online library. You can find many scholarly and professional sources there.
PRESENTATION RESOURCES
The following optional resources may be helpful in completing this project:
Life After Death by PowerPoint (3 mins | Automatic Closed Captioning)
This YouTube video gives great tips sprinkled in with humor! 🙂
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Submit the following to your Assignments Folder:
The completed PowerPoint presentation file.
Submit a Project Reflection (see below).
PROJECT REFLECTION
Answer the following questions when you submit your assignments files.
What new information did you learn from this assignment?
Where were your roadblocks?
Using the grading rubric, how would you score your own work?
Submit your Project Reflection as a Microsoft Word document or just copy and paste your answers in your Assignments Folder’s text box when you submit your assignment along with the rest of the required project files.
HARD DUE DATE: TUESDAY 11:59 PM | EASTERN TIME (ET)
Late Period: This project will NOT be accepted after the end of the course. The Assignments Folder will be closed on the last day of class, 11:59PM ET (EASTERN TIME), and at this point you will not be able to physically submit the assignment. Exceptions may be allowed, on a case-by-case basis, for life situations (military deployment, medical illness, death in the family, etc.). In all cases, timely notification of a “life situation” is critical to the approval of any extensions. All exceptions must be accompanied by official documentation, which is subject to inspection and approval. Work load, course load, vacations, or bad memory are not acceptable excuses.
Exceptions may be allowed, on a case-by-case basis, for life situations (military deployment, medical illness, death in the family, etc.). In all cases, timely notification of a “life situation” is critical to the approval of any extensions. All exceptions must be accompanied by official documentation, which is subject to inspection and approval. Work load, course load, vacations, or bad memory are not acceptable excuses.
Running Close to the Deadline? Do not wait until the last minute to submit your assignment. Give yourself at least a 5-hour window to account for any technical difficulties that might arise. If you experience technical difficulties beyond your control that do not allow you to successfully complete the assignment, immediately follow the steps below:
Step 1: Contact UMGC 360 Help and Support. Inform them off the problem you are having. Get a problem ticket number from them to document the situation.
Step 2: Email me ASAP and include a description of the problem you are having and your problem ticket number from 360 Help and Support, so I can investigate the situation.
Step 3: Attempt to attach your assignment to a message to me inside of LEO.
Step 4: Email the assignment to me.
GRADE VALUE
This project is worth 400 points or 40% of your total grade for the course.
GRADE DEDUCTIONS
You will lose points for issues such as: not following directions, not submitting your work on time, and failure to include all required elements. Each omission will result in a partial point deduction.
SUBMITTING YOUR ASSIGNMENT
To complete this project and receive full credit, you must submit your completed presentation to your Assignments Folder unless you encounter problems—discussed above).
CYA (COPY YOUR ASSIGNMENT)
Make sure you keep a copy of your project stored on your computer. Technical difficulties do happen—you may need to resubmit your assignment for a number of reasons. It is always a good policy to CYA!
HAVING PROBLEMS?
Contact me in advance if you are having problems understanding what is required of you.
