1. Do NOT use dark backgrounds for your power point slides.
1. Do NOT use dark backgrounds for your power point slides. As the assignment materials provided and also chapter 14 in the text both state, dark backgrounds are not advisable. They make it very difficult for an audience to see your work (studies show that our eyes work better reading dark print on lighter colored backgrounds). I’d suggest using lighter colored backgrounds for your content slides. 2. You need to provide some relevant graphics in your power point slides, however you do not want to use too many of them. In other words, do not let your graphics ‘crowd-out’ your writing. Remember, the primary purpose of any visual aid for a presentation is to reinforce the main ideas that you are presenting. If you have too many graphics on your slides, take some graphics out and give your text some extra space. This also will make your power points more readable for an audience. The key is using a visual aid to help your audience remember what you are telling them. Also, don’t have individual slides with just graphics or pictures and no other information, unless you are going to explain the importance of the graphic/picture in your presentation.3. In some cases, it may be more appropriate to use bullet points on your slides instead of A, B, C, etc. For instance, if you are just providing details about a sub topic, bullet points are probably more appropriate. Remember, your slides are not your outline. They are to help you communicate with the audience. 4. There is no reason to have your subject title on each power point slide. Instead, put your main point on each corresponding slide as a heading/title on each individual slide. Slide headings should also be kept consistent at the top of each slide. 5. Put your name on your first and last title slide. In fact, you should make your final slide after your conclusion a repeat of your first slide. You need at least 10 slides with content and content is not considered the first and last slides. Also, remember to use an ‘attention getter’ to begin your verbal presentation. The Discussion Board Assignment #3 with the video from Mr. Brian Tracy should help you make a great start with your presentation. 6. Do not use long sentences on the outline that you provide me. See the example of an outline I’ve provided previously in this folder. You also need to make your presentation seem spontaneous. Do NOT just read your presentation word for word from your notes as you will do poorly. 7. You must have least two smart art charts or graphs of your own creation in your power points. You need TWO of them and one of them needs to be a chart or graph breaking down some type of data. One suggestion: use a study of data of some type involving your topic and use a pie chart with percentages. The text discusses using charts and graphs in chapter 11 (I understand we have not covered this chapter yet, but this is provided as an example of different types of charts and graphs you can create using smart art features of power point). DO NOT just borrow charts or graphics from the internet and/or other sources. I can tell if you created your own smart art. 8. You need 10 to 15 slides for a 4 to 5 minute presentation. Anything less will result in a reduction in points. I suggest at least 12 (as your first and last slides are just basic introduction slides listing your topic and your name and are NOT considered content). 9. PROOFREAD your power point slides and outlines. There is no reason to have spelling and grammatical errors on your work and if you do, it will greatly reduce your points. 10. I strongly advise NOT waiting until the last minute on Sunday, March 29th, to attempt to upload your presentations. I will not answer questions on that Sunday evening about loading the video. You NEED to accomplish this before the final date. Waiting until late in the evening on that evening is simply not acceptable in this professional business world because you may have technology issues, etc. 11. Also, rely on your fellow group members for help. I’m sure there is someone in every group who understands how to record and upload video to a file hosting service. Again, I do not care which site is used as long as I can go there and view your video. Make sure you double-check your video AFTER you have it uploaded (in other words, watch it on YouTube yourself before you send me the link). You will have points reduced if you send me a link that does not work, no video is available, etc. 12. Additionally, you need to dress appropriately for your presentation: this means a collared shirt or blouse, belt, dress shoes, pants/slacks or appropriate skirt; basically what would be appropriate to wear in a modern office environment. Part of your grade will be based on professionalism. You need to film yourself standing up (DO NOT SIT DOWN); you are pretending that you are giving a presentation in your office of 10+ coworkers. You need to have hand gestures visible to me. I do not need to see your power point slides in the video. I’ll manually have them up on one of my computer screens as I watch your presentation in another screen. 13. Watch the time; this is a 4 to 5 minute presentation. There will be points deducted for being too short (under 4 minutes) and also going longer than 5 minutes (I’ll give a few seconds amount of leeway on going over, but if you get over 5 min, 30 seconds, I’ll deduct points). The moral of the story is to “practice, practice, practice”. After you film yourself once, I want you to watch the video and if you see problems, DO IT OVER!!!
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