PowerPoint Presentations, Sec. 11

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.

Th 02.21

1. Brittany Malcom - Five Endangered Species Around the World

2. Sam Bennett - All About the FIFA World Cup

Week 07: Maldives

 Tu 03.05

 1. John Tran and Josh Nouye - Japan and Whaling

Th 03.07

1.Alexa Raygoza and Puneet Sanghera - What We Know: Life Inside North Korea

Week 08: Egypt

Th 03.14

1. Veronica Peterson and Dennis Li - Strange Places: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Aokigahara Forest, and Area 51
2.

Week 09: Canada

Tu 03.19

1. Darian Firestine - Understanding Blood Diamonds

Week 11: Germany

Th 04.04

1. Aaron Lisscomb and Julia Merinov - Explaining Ourselves: The Voyager Golden Records

2. Sherry Nguyen - The Alternative Paris: What Most Tourists Don’t Do or See

Week 12: Japan

Tu 04.09

1. Josey Kimani and Alex Garcia - Four Places to Visit—Before They Disappear

Week 13: Australia

Tu 04.16

1. Nick Wasemiller - What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

2. Will Simons and Michelle Geiger - World Festivals: La Tomatina, Holi, Il Palio di Siena, and Burning Man

Th 04. 18

1. Steven Velez and Jason Zhou - The Arab Spring: A Primer

Week 14: Spain

Tu 04.23

1. Joanna Vargas and Naila Tyner - Mind Your Manners: Etiquette Around the World

Week 15: Saudi Arabia

Tu 04.30

1.Abbas Akhtar and  Kenny Li - If You Have to Ask How Much it Costs: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Resorts
2. Sharmaine Olay and Fernando Cardenas - Cryptids of the World: The Yeren, Cadborosaurus, and The Jersey Devil