PowerPoint Presentations: Sec. 05

As you know, this semester you and a classmate will be responsible for a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation and a class hand-out.

By midnight on Friday, February 8th, you and a partner should be signed-up for a topic and date.  All topics and dates are first-come first-served. Topics will be crossed off as they are chosen. Anyone that has not chosen by this time, will automatically be assigned a partner, topic, and date.

Follow these steps:

1. Click on "Comments" at the end of this post.
2. In the "Post a Comment" box, leave the group's names (first and last), section, topic, and the preferred date—only one entry per group is required.
3. Be sure that you sign up in the correct section.
   

Example:
David Cortez and Kerry Clancy - The World’s Greenest Cities , 03.14.13

Follow these guidelines for the presentation:

Requirements:

• The work distribution is up to each pairing, though it should be somewhat equitable
• The presentation must be approximately 10 minutes in length
• There should be approximately 10 slides, including at least one video clip (no more than 2-3 minutes in length)
• Must include a handout outlining your presentation (25 copies) 
• On the day of your presentation, email both your presentation and handout to me at dhdelao@gmail.com.

The best presentations will likely:

• Open with cover and introduction slides
• Begin by contextualizing the topic, then presenting relevant information 
• Include visually interesting illustrations
• Avoid a heavy use of animation and effects, choosing instead a compelling visual style
• Engage the class through a conversational style, utilizing questions and/or activities
• Utilize multimedia, such as YouTube*
• Conclude with a summarization of the information presented  

Remember, this is an opportunity to be very creative, so feel free to have fun with the visual layout of your presentation.

Lower scoring presentations might:

• Begin without an introductory slide and/or fail to offer contextualization
• Be thinly researched
• Allow visuals to overrun their content
• Not engage the class in any meaningful way
• Fail to incorporate any multimedia
• Conclude without a concluding slide

*Here is a quick video explaining how to embed a YouTube clip into PowerPoint 2007. Embedding clips can save time during a presentation.

Remember, you are responsible for providing your own laptop.

Choose from a list of topics, then dates, below:

1. What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
2. Cryptids of the World: Orang Pendek, Ogopogo, and Mokèlé-mbèmbé
3. How it Works: The Ivory Trade
4. Understanding Blood Diamonds
5. I Want to Host an Olympic Games
6. Cricket for Dummies
7. Mind Your Manners: Etiquette Around the World
8. Four Places to Visit—Before They Disappear
9. Inside Bollywood Cinema 
10. MTV Around the Globe
11. The World’s Greenest Cities
12. Divorce Proceedings: The Secession Movements of Quebec, Sicily, Chiapas, and Hong Kong
13. Strange Places: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Aokigahara Forest, and Area 51
14. If You Have to Ask How Much it Costs: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Resorts
15. How it Works: The Heroin Trade
16. Explaining Ourselves: The Voyager Golden Records
17. All About Eurovision
18. Five Endangered Species Around the World
19. The Alternative Paris: What Most Tourists Don’t Do or See
20. Japan and Whaling
21. Lost Cities: Derinkuyu, Angkor, Pompeii, and Palenque
22. Megalopolis: The World’s Biggest Cities
23. All About the FIFA World Cup
24. How it Works: Human Trafficking
25. World Festivals: La Tomatina, Holi, Il Palio di Siena, and Burning Man 

Choose from these dates:

Week 05: The United States

Tu 02.19

1. Daimen Ambers and James Medel - Four Places to Visit—Before They Disappear

Th 02.21

1. Hieu Huynh and Caitlin Achiles - Strange Places: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Aokigahara Forest, and Area 51

2. Anthony Paratore and Mark Moroni - Lost Cities: Derinkuyu, Angkor, Pompeii, and Palenque

Week 07: Maldives

Tu 03.05

1. Charlene Acidera, Danillo Yabut, and Jacquelynnn Nguyen - Cryptids of the World: Orang Pendek, Ogopogo, and Mokèlé-mbèmbé

Th 03.07

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Week 08: Egypt

Th 03.14

1. Jimmy Dang and Jessy Corsillio - Strange Places, Too: La Isla de la Munecas, Hoia-Baciu Forest, and The Edinburgh Vaults

2. Jason Lai and Leonel Alvarez - All About the FIFA World Cup

Week 09: Canada

Tu 03.19

1. Bryan Linda and Jonathan Chen - If You Have to Ask How Much it Costs: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Resorts

Week 11: Germany

Th 04.04

1. Stephanie Nguyen and Kitty Kha - Mind Your Manners: Etiquette Around the World

2. Pamela Baraceros and Minh Tran - Cryptids of the World, Part II: The Yeren, Cadborosaurus, and The Jersey Devil

Week 12: Japan

Tu 04.09

1. David Warren and Jasmine Pandher - How it Works: The Heroin Trade

Week 13: Australia

Tu 04.16

1. Jared Kauk and Jaspinder Kaur - How it Works: Human Trafficking

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Th 04. 18

1. Chris Mirandilla - Megalopolis: The World’s Biggest Cities

Week 14: Spain

Tu 04.23

1.Karina Ng - MTV Around the Globe

Week 15: Saudi Arabia

Tu 04.30

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