Multimedia Presentation
Assignment
Disclaimer: This is NOT a multimedia presentation. It is
just an overview of your assignment.
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The battle over multimedia presentations:
Tufte, Edward. "PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts.
PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely." Wired 11.09 (2003):
n. pag. Wired, Sept. 2003. Web. 13 Jan. 2013.
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html>.
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Norman, Don. "In Defense of PowerPoint." Web log post. jnd.org:
Don Norman: Designing for People. Nielsen/Norman
Group, 2005. Web. 13 Jan. 2013.
<http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/in_defense_of_powerp.html>.
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Background
Congratulations! You have just been assigned the role of student
teacher! Having just examined the Multimedia Presentations, Online
Multimedia Search Skills, and Finding Credible Sources Online articles
on the Digital Literacy database, you are now going to teach one
element of developing a multimedia presentation to the rest of the class.
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Task
Your group of 3–6 students will collaborate to research and present a
five-minute presentation that responds to the question your group was
assigned (see Reading Assignments spreadsheet with the checked
sections for each group).
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Each group is assigned 7–9 sections from Digital
Literacy database articles.
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Each group is assigned 7–9 sections from Digital
Literacy database articles.
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Audience
Your teacher and classmates will be your audience. They will use the
attached rubric to evaluate your work. Your group members will also
evaluate your individual contribution to your group’s collaborative effort.
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Purpose
The objective of this assignment is to have students teach students
strategies for creating effective multimedia presentations.
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Procedure #1
Meet with your group members.
a
b
c
Assign reading responsibilities.
i Who will read which of the 7–8 assigned chapters?
Review note-taking procedures for readings.
i How will you access your group-mates’ notes?
i What are the guidelines for contribution?
i Agree to a deadline for readings and notes.
Establish a timeline for your work.
i Starting backwards from your presentation deadline, plan and agree
upon your group’s workflow (five group meetings are recommended).
i Review the established meeting time for next group meeting.
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Procedure #2
Work independently on reading and note-taking.
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Procedure #3
Meet with your group members and decide what, from your collective
pool of notes, will best answer your group’s assigned question.
a
b
c
d
e
f
Create the presentation outline.
Decide which audio and visual materials will best support your lesson’s
objective, and how they should be sequenced. Include this information in
the outline.
Decide how this outline, and related multimedia files will remain available
and editable by all group members.
Establish a deadline for writing and the content and collecting multimedia
resources.
Agree to a deadline for readings and notes, and allocate responsibilities
for each group member.
Review the established meeting time for next group meeting.
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Procedure #4
Work independently to meet your responsibilities in a timely
manner.
a
Collect the required multimedia resources, and add them to a shared
collaborative file so that all members can access them.
b
Write out the content for each slide you have been assigned to work
on.
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Procedure #5
Meet for a third time.
a
Organize the group’s written content and multimedia files into a
presentation, following the sequence prescribed in the outline.
b
Using your multimedia presentation rubric, evaluate the presentation,
and edit accordingly, paying close attention to content, organization,
audience, and media.
c
Allocate responsibilities for presentation: Who will say what?
d
Agree to independent rehearsal expectations and schedule two group
rehearsals.
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Procedure #s 6 & 7
Rehearse independently as agreed to.
Meet for two scheduled rehearsals.
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Procedure #8
Final preparations:
a
Make sure all the multimedia in your completed presentation runs
properly.
b
Upload the presentation to the computer you will use to deliver it at
least three days before your scheduled presentation.
c
Make the shared multimedia file available from the same computer
you will use to deliver the presentation.
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Procedure #s 9 & 10
Deliver your presentation to the class with your group members.
Evaluate your group members’ collaborative efforts. (Use rubric
below)
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What have you learned about
multimedia presentations?
What do you still need to learn?
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