Overview
For this hands-on project, you’ll be creating a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of your choice from one of the following topics. You may only choose one topic, and it must meet all the requirements listed below. You’ll be using most of the tools that you learned throughout this lesson in a real-world situation.
Choose one of the following topics, then use the requirements below to craft your presentation:
A presentation featuring your Dream Vacation Destination
A presentation featuring your Favorite Sports Team
A presentation featuring your favorite band
A presentation featuring your favorite movie
A presentation featuring your favorite video game
A presentation featuring Yourself and your Resume
REMEMBER
If you use any outside sources, such as pictures, text, or quotes, be sure to properly cite them using APA style on the last slide of your slide show. For more information and help in citing please reference the Citation Help (opens in a new tab) page within the Rio Library Research Guide and Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) (opens in a new tab).
Citation, spelling, grammar, and the overall look and feel of your presentation will be evaluated, so be sure to create, edit, and revise before turning in.
Project Preparation
Download the Lesson 5 Storyboard Template (opens in a new tab) Word document to your course lesson folder.
Storyboard Project
Choose your topic from the list presented above. Using the Storyboard template document, map out your presentation. Be sure to include the main topic of each slide, the layout you will use, and a list of the types of content that will be included on each slide.
Your presentation should be at least 10 slides long: one title slide, one slide for references at the end, and eight or more content slides.
Review all the requirements below and include items where applicable in your Storyboard document.
REMEMBER
The Storyboard is meant to be a brainstorming document to help you plan out how the presentation will flow and which topics you’ll cover. This Storyboard is not set in stone; it can evolve and change as you decide to add more or less to your final presentation.
PowerPoint Presentation
Create a New PowerPoint Presentation. Do not use a Template, but start a New Blank Presentation.
Apply a Theme to the presentation.
Create a Title Slide that features your title, name, MEID, and today’s date.
Create eight or more content slides.
The first content slide should be an introduction of what you will present.
You must use at least three different slide layouts.
Each slide must contain some text (don’t just have a picture by itself on the slide).
Each slide must have at least one of the following. And you need to use each one at least once in your presentation:
Picture or Clip-Art
Shapes/Diagram
On the slide where shapes are used, group the shapes together.
Your content should match your previously created Storyboard document.
Use at least one bulleted list.
Use at least one numbered list.
Use font formatting at least once. This can be bolding, underlining, or italicizing text on a slide.
Using the Master Views, edit the Slide Master for your presentation and add a text box shape with your MEID in the lower-left corner of every slide. (Be sure to choose an appropriate text color based on your theme and background image.)
Create a References slide as the final slide in your presentation. Any outside material should be cited here using APA format.
Review your presentation and create presenter notes for each slide.
Apply animations to each slide of your presentation (at least one object per slide must be animated).
Apply transitions to each content slide of your presentation.
For all pictures in your presentation, add Alt Text
Preview your presentation in Presentation Mode.
Use the Pen Annotation Tool and make a note on at least one slide.
Review each slide for grammatical and spelling errors.
