• Cover a thinker who was alive on January 1, 2010.
• Find a thinker whose work is conceptual, not scientific or technological
• You can not acquire partial credit for this assignment.
• Need to present (not read) your presentation Worth 200 points, parsed into 50 lesson phase, 50 point draft phase, 100 point final PowerPoint and presentation.
  • Lesson phase is the in-class discussion of layout and design and the assignment
  • Draft phase is a fully drafted PowerPoint
  • Final powerpoint /presentation is you actually giving the presentation

• Layout and design
  • While the above link leads to a discussion of posters, the theory of layout and design is applicable for presentations.
  • Must have a continual table of contents

Structure

1. A Title Page will be the first page
• Title page needs to have a Creative: Descriptive title
2. Introduction
• Needs to gloss what the presentation will cover.
3. Early Life
• Discuss the person's childhood and teen years.
• Quote a different website than the other sections
4. Education
• What schooling did the person have
• What notable events occurred during that schooling: clubs, activities, sports, etc
• Quote a different website than the other sections
5. Career/jobs
   • What jobs have they had
   • What positions have they held during their career
   • Quote a different website than the other sections
6. Publications/Videos
• What writings have they published (summarize each)
• What other media have they done, or do they do
• Quote a different website than the other sections
7. Idea or Concept
• This is the main point of the presentation.
• There must be more slides, informatin and discussion about this section that all of the others combined.
• Quote THREE different peer reviewed or academic (.edu) source.
  • To search for information on university sites, use google search with this code
  • Search Term site:.edu
8. Bibliography (French, bibliothèque means Library; Spanish La biblioteca means Library)
   • Create a bibliography, not a works cited or references page
   • The "library" (grouping) of material I looked at to write a paper.
   • A bibliography is not a MLA works cited nor an APA References page, but is formatted as citations, either MLA or APA
   • Don't double space the works cited, cram all of them, even if in tiny font, onto one slide
   • My MLA image map on how to cite sources, or you may use OWL Prdue, but no other resource for making the citations.

Powerpoint Rubric

1. Words per frame
   • no more than ~30 words appearing at one time
2. Bullets
• Only use bullets if you have more than one item in a list
• Do not center the text with bullets; bullets should be vertically in a line.
• DO NOT use hyphens as bullets: Use hyphens only to connect two words
3. Frames, not slides
   • a slide is a mechanical part of PowerPoint
   • A frame is what is seen before the whole of the frame changes.
     • comparable to scene changes in a film
4. Quotes
• Any quotes must be on their own slides.
• Read the quote word for word to us.
• No need for images on Quote slides
5. Humorous comics
   • You must read the entirety of the comic to the audience
6. No full sentences
• Use fragmented bullet points
• (except for quote slides, which need to be full sentences and quotes)
7. No Reading at us
• The only time you should, and must, read is on the quote slides
• Every bullet point should be covered with an additional 1-4 sentences.
8. Subheads
• Each frame should have a subhead: see the enumerated list above of subhead sections
9. Font sizes and colors
• 2/2 rule
• At all times try to restrict font types to one or two types throughout the powerpoint
• At all times try to restrict color of fonts to one or two colors throughout the powerpoint
10. Images
• Images must pertain to the subject or theory of the slide
• Every frame must have one image, either as part of the template or as an embedded image.
• Do not use the same image for every slide; if your template is the same image, you'll need unique images for each slide
11. Sound effects
• None. Don't use them.
• You may use videos with sound
12. Transitions
• Things appear and things disappear; that is it.
• Do NOT use slide transitions other than appear / dissapear
• Fade in and fade out is acceptable, occasionally
13. Spelling
    • Spelling errors for words that powerpoint would have caught with its spellchecker
14. Clarity of text
    • Post-It Note Test
    • Hold a 3" x 3" Post-It note at arm's length and step back from your PC until the Post-It is the same size as the screen. If you cannot read the screen clearly, the font size or font color (compared to the background) needs changed.
15. People's Names
• Use google or youtube to learn how to pronounce names appropriately.