L401 Project 1: Multimedia Presentation

Complete the following steps to create your Multimedia Presentation:

• Step 1: Choose a Topic and Audience
• Step 2: Conduct Research and Create an Annotated Bibliography
• Step 3: Create an Outline or Storyboard
• Step 4: Create a PowerPoint Presentation

Choose a topic for your presentation. Some topics you might consider are:

You must also decide upon the intended audience for your presentation. You may choose to develop your presentation for colleagues, employees, patrons or clients or any other appropriately related group. The presentation must made be suitable for this audience; and in turn, one must be able to determined the intended audience by the presentation.

Be ready to inform your lab instructor of your selected topic by February 2.

Step 2

Research your topic and prepare an annotated bibliography of the sources you will use to prepare your presentation.

An annotated bibliography is an organized list of citations to books, articles and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy and quality of the sources cited.

Annotations are both descriptive and critical. They expose the author's point of view, clarity and appropriateness of expression and authority.

Creating an annotated bibliography requires the application of a variety of intellectual skills: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research. To prepare your annotated bibliography use the following steps:

1. Locate and record citations to books, periodicals and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Choose the works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.
2. Cite the book, article or document using the appropriate style.
3. Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Include one or more sentences that (a) evaluate the authority or background of the author, (b) comment on the intended audience (c) compare or contrast this work with another you have cited and/or (d) explain how this work illuminates your bibliographic topic.

For guidance on proper citation styles, see the following online style manuals. Choose one style and be consistent throughout your bibliography.

• Modern Language Association (MLA) at http://www.mla.org
• American Psychological Association (APA) at http://www.apastyle.org/
• The Chicago Style Manual at http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/guides/chicagogd.html

At minimum, your completed annotated bibliography should contain:

1. 3 book citations
2. 5 article citations
3. 5 web based resources

Type your annotated bibliography using MS Word. Submit your bibliography by posting it to your Steel account as a web-based document.  Send the URL to your lab instructor by February 13.   Use the subject line - Annotated Bibliography.

Step 3

Create an outline or storyboard illustrating the presentation structure and organization. Use MS Word to develop this step. At minimum, the outline or storyboard should:

1. note the content for each slide in the presentation (50 pts)
2. include details such as the title of the slide, background color or theme, graphics, fonts, headings, hyperlinks and URLs, audio files, tranisitions, animation, etc. (50 pts)

At minimum, your MS Word document must include:

1. At least 2 different (identifiable) fonts (10 pts)
2. A header (which occurs on each page of your document) with your name, date and email address (10 pts)
3. A footer denoting the page number after page 1 (no number should appear on page 1 of your document) (10 pts)
4. A numbered or bulleted list (10 pts)
5. A diagram using Autoshapes (10 pts)

Use MS PowerPoint to create the final presentation. At minimum, you should include the following in your presentation:

1. A title page identifying the presentation and author (10 pts)
2. 19 additional slides (50 pts)
3. At least 4 images (20 pts)
4. Transitions between at least 4 slides (20 pts)
5. Animation on at least 3 slides (20 pts)
6. At least 10 pages with detailed speaker notes (20 pts)
7. Insert a table created in MS Word into a slide (20 pts)
8. Create a slide using Autoshapes to make a chart. (20 pts)
9. Include a link to your annotated bibliography. (20 pts)

Upload your completed Project 1 as a web-based presentation on your Steel account.  Create a portal page for Project One and post links to all of the documents required for this project.  Post the URL on the Project One forum on Oncourse with the subject line: Project One.  This project is due by March 6.