Slideshow Presentation

Requirements

Learning Outcomes

• Use Effective Genre Conventions in Your Slides.  Make sure that your slides are visually appealing — use large images and bullets point.  Avoid filling up your slide with a lot of words that are too small to read.

• Show Your Understanding of the Five Professional Modes.  Ensure that your words are loud enough to be heard, that you draw audience attention to the important points in your slides, and that your words and visuals work together to convey information.  Feel free to move around the room as needed to keep your classmates interested in your talk.

• Appropriately Document Your Sources.  For a slideshow, you need to list authors, article titles, and container sources.  If a source has really helped you, then tell us this during your talk.

Word Count and Research Sources

• Minimum 5 Slides:

  • • Title Slide with Your Name and the Presentation Title.

    • Minimum 3 Body Slides.  Feel free to use more, if you like!  If there's an image or quote on a body slide, then you must have a short citation with the author's name on that slide.

    • Works Cited Slide with Author, "Article Title" (in quotation marks), and Container Location for all outside sources.  Please include the source URLs here.

• Minimum 3 Outside Sources.  You may use any source type.  Remember to list the source for any images you include, even if you produced the image (see Quick Notes below.)

• Cite All Sources Twice: Short Citation on the Body Slide, Then a Longer Citation on the Works Cited Slide.  You don't need the URLs on the body slides because no one can click on them while you speak, but please include the URLs on your Works Cited slide.

• Minimum 5 Images.

• Minimum 5 Minutes, Maximum 10.  Plan on speaking for 5, and then the Q&A can go until the 10-minute mark.  At ten minutes, we have to move on to the next presenter.

Quick Notes on Outside Visual Sources

• Outside sources are sources that exist outside you.  For example, if you draw a picture or take a photo, then that visual becomes the outside source because it exists independently from you — you could post it online or share it with a friend.  But if you talk about your past experiences during the presentation itself, your words do not count as an outside source.  Or think about this from a work perspective.  If you produce art for this presentation, then you're doing something extra for the presentation that's harder than simply copying something from online.  On other hand, if you're simply talking about your life during your five-minute talk, then that's no extra work than everyone else is doing — it's actually less work, because there was no work to find an outside source.

• Cite Yourself for Your Images.  Even if you take the photo or drew the picture yourself, you need to indicate "Image by Your Name."  This way, there's no confusion about where the image came from.

Examples

Group Notes Rotation

Here's an example of a slideshow I recently gave for a group of fellow Heartland faculty.  I'll try to post a video soon to illustrate the Aural and Gestural modes, but here's a quick look at how the slides work:

• Title Slide: Notice how I have a very large title in an easy-to-read font.  I've also included a subtitle, my name, and my qualifications in smaller fonts.

• Visual Body Slide: Notice how the image takes up the bulk of the slide.  It's a simple image with contrasting colors.  I did not credit myself as the image author here, but that can create confusion.

• Bulleted Body Slide: Note that the bullet points are not paragraphs.  I need to provide the details in the talk itself.

• Links Slide and QR Codes Slide: I didn't use outside sources for this particular presentation, but I did include links to this website and its Facebook Group.  Although I don't require QR codes in student presentations, they can be helpful when you want your audience to follow your presentation.