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Part 4: Project Media
With the outline you created last week, create media for your project. You should create at least 10 PowerPoint slide drafts that will be used for your presentation. If you want to use another media, like Prezi, please contact your professor. Keep your audience in mind, and review these tips to help: UMGC Writing Center – Writing for an Audience
Microsoft’s Office 365 , which includes PowerPoint, is free for UMGC students. Learn more here.
Resources to help you with the presentation:
- Sample PPT with Notes
- Twelve Tips for Creating Effective Presentations
- Website for help with designing a PPT
- Introduction to SmartArt Graphics
- Convert Slide Text to a SmartArt Graphic
- Guidance for PowerPoint
- Simpler is Better in Presentation Slides
- Introduction to SmartArt Graphics (3:40 video)
Additional MS Resources
- Microsoft – PowerPoint Help & Learning (search feature) –
- Microsoft – PowerPoint for Windows training – Recommended for students unfamiliar with inserting images, graphics, audio, and altering other elements of the PowerPoint.
- Microsoft – Slides, layout, & objects
- Microsoft – Text & tables
- Microsoft – Pictures & graphics
This week your primary focus should be on the PowerPoint slides itself (images, graphics, text, citations, etc.). Next week you will submit a full draft of your presentation.
Due Date for Part 4: This submission is due during Week 5, with the final day of submission being the Tuesday of the fifth week (11:30pm ET). Please see the Course Schedule for the exact final due date for this submission.