Working in your project groups you will create a Powerpoint presentation from the web site that you worked on with the following features:

  • Follows the presentation guidelines (ie font face, font size, number of words etc)
  • Minimum of 10 slides (for a 4 person group) or 8 slides for 3 person group. You are at liberty to create more slides but don't go 'over the top'
    • Title slide
    • Overview slide
    • 2 slides for each theme
    Following the minimum will gain you the equivalent of a 'C' grade in points.

Each group will present their Powerpoint show to the whole class on Thursday November 13th and the class will assess the quality of each presentation according to the following rubric:

  • With marks from 1 - 10:
    • Engaging Content — does the material grab you attention or is it lackluster & boring?
    • Well Expressed — is the text 'newpaper style' and free from spelling and grammar mistakes?
    • Depth of material and coverage — is the material deep but understandable or is it superficial, trivial stuff?
    • Relevant graphics — are the graphics (if any) relevant to the show are merely a distraction.
  • Number of slides that are:
    • Excellent, good, OK, poor, pisspoor

I will grade each presentation on its technical merits according to the following rubric:

Item marks
Slides follow visual clarity guidelines1 +
  follow legibility guidelines1 +
Slide Master self-formatted background 2 +
  footer (with author name) +
Table not crowded11 +
  change default font +
Chart3 change default font +
  format axes and titles +
  remove gridlines +
  format borders +
  animate chart elements +
Slide Transition applied consistently4 +
Within slide animation applied consistently5 +
Slide Notes6 +
own graphic or modified graphic7 +
Relevant graphic images from Internet9 +
Internal hyperlinks +
Hyperlinks to Web URLs +
3D chart8 -
Animated graphics10 -
built-in sounds 0
clipart 0

Notes

Total marks out of 50.
+ positive marks
- marks taken off
  1. Check out the guidelines on this page
    Basically, Sans Serif font, 5 words / bullet, no more than 6 bullets per slide - thus any slide with 7 bullets sacrifices the point.
  2. You can use a design template but if you choose to format your own background ("self formatted background" in the table below) you will get a point.
  3. You need only a single chart but well done
  4. Consistency in this context means applying the same slide transition to all slides. More than one transition will forfeit the point.
  5. Ditto for animating slide components. You'll find the easiest way is to apply the animation to the Master Slide.
  6. At least two slides should have associated slide notes.
  7. If you use a small graphic you scanned in yourself or that you made transparent in Photoshop you will get credit for that
  8. Minus one for failing to change the chart type from 3D to 2D
  9. Credit for relevant Internet graphics but nothing for clipart or built-in sounds
  10. Minus one for glitzy animated gifs
  11. Max number columns and rows = 4

Summary

You need:
  • Master Slide - properly formatted
  • every slide to follow guidelines - any exception with forfeit the point.
  • Chart slide (using same numbers)