Year In Review

The Tech Year In Review PowerPoint Project

At Parent/Teacher night in the fall, I always show a PowerPoint that pictorially showcases the different tech projects of the past year. It gives parents glimpses into the required class projects using actual screenshots and text from the real projects that students have completed in Tech Class. It is a self running presentation with music in the background, and runs for about 2 minutes (120 seconds). Each slide has text, graphics, and appropriate animations. Throughout the presentation, I use a standard slide transition. It moves along at a pace so that parents cannot actually read everything, but they still get an idea of what the Tech class is like, in about 120 seconds.

Your task is to create a PowerPoint for the audience as described above, that fairly and comprehensively represents the projects from the 2004-2005 year in Tech, in a format similar to the demo presentation that I show in class. It must be presentable to parents and administration without further editing by me.

Any text, picture, or slide that is deemed by me 'not to be presentable', or any slide that is in 'poor taste' in my opinion, that is part of a presentation, will result in a grade of '5' out of 100 points being earned for the entire project, regardless of effort by the student. It goes without saying that students may not plagiarize other students work.

Background music may be added later, if possible, but is not a requirement. Make sure that your PowerPoint is self-running, lasts about 120 seconds (2 minutes), and that you hand in the project on time on D13SHARE. No paper printouts are to be handed in. This is an 'individual only' project - you cannot work with a friend.

Hints:

	Keep your images and screenshots small in size (bytes) by using Save For the Web in Photoshop Elements.
	Delete any unneeded files from your account before you begin working on this project.
	Backup your file as you work, on eCHALK or in a separate file elsewhere.

As a reminder, some of the projects we have worked may have included:

	Student Favorites Grid
	Bingo Sheet
	Stock Market Sheet
	College Introduction PowerPoint
	Toshiba ExploraVision
	Vacation Inspiration
	1929 Stock Market Crash
	Copyright Project
	Radio Timeline
	Design Your Own Project

You are encouraged to use screenshots from your actual projects, or your friend's projects (if they give you permission) and include as many projects listed above as is possible. You should have at least 12 slides with animations. A title and your name should appear on the first slide.

I do not count 'the title', 'introduction' or 'the end' slides in the 12 slide minimum. You will save the final presentations to D13SHARE - there will be no printed projects, and speaker 'notes' are not required. Make sure you have a backup copy separate from D13SHARE before you submit your work. Good luck!

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