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Presentations

  • Need to present (not read) your presentation
  • Layout and design
    • While the above link leds to a discussion of posters, the theory of layout and design is applicable for presentations

Structure

  1. A Title Page will be the first page
  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 occured during that schooling: clubs, activites, sports, etc
    • Quote a different website than the other sections
  5. Career/jobs
    • What jobs have they had
    • What positions have they hel;d n 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.
    • Thee ust be more slides, oinformatin and disucsson 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)
    • 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 purdue, but no other resource for making the ciations


Powerpoint Rubric

  1. Words per frame
    • No less than 5 words; no more than 30 words
  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. Quotes
    • Any quotes must be on their own slides.
    • Read the quote word for word to us.
    • No need for images on Quote slides
  4. No full sentences
    • Use fragmented bullet points
    • (except for quote slides, which need to be full sentences and quotes)
  5. No Reading at us
    • The only time you should, and must, read is on the quote slides
  6. Subheads
    • Each frame should have a subhead: see the enumerated list above of subhead sections
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Sound effects
    • None. Don't use them.
    • You may use videos with sound
  10. Transitions
    • Things appear and things disappear
  11. Spelling
    • Spelling errors for words that powerpoint would have caught with its spellchecker
  12. 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.
  13. People's Names
    • Use google or youtube to learn how to pronounce names appropriately.