Creating+Prezis

= How you will be graded: =
 * Name & _ Period _ **
 * Rubric for Prezi Collaborative Project **

Intro slide included Names and Topic (10 Points)

At least 10 informational slides (5 slides per person) properly identified (10 Points)

Interactive Link to a video – a hyperlink would also work (10 Points)

Included Pictures - should have visuals on at least ½ of slides(10 Points)

“Works Cited” - Included Reference Slide in Proper MLA Format (15 Points) Reference on each slide (5 Points)

Slides clean and not cluttered (10 Points – maximum of 20 words per slide)

Overall Style/colors/format is pleasing (10 Points)

Able to add to presentation through discussion/commentary/storytelling and answering of questions (20 Points)
 * _Total (100 points Possible) 5 POINTS EXTRA CREDIT IF PRESENTED VOLUNTARILY **

= Creatint a Prezi/PowerPoints presentation = = =  ** PowerPoint Presentation Advice ** Mike Splane –© 2006 - **Structuring Your Talk: ** = MLA Works Cited Page =
 * Preparing a Visually Aided Presentation always takes far longer than you anticipate. Start early! **
 * Write a clear statement of the problem and its importance.
 * Research. Collect material which may relate to the topic.
 * Tell a story in a logical sequence.
 * Stick to the key concepts. Avoid description of specifics and unnecessary details.
 * If you are making a series of points, organize them from the most to the least important. The less important points can be skipped if you run short of time.
 * Keep your sentences short, about 10-20 words each is ideal. This is the way people usually talk.
 * Strive for clarity. Are these the best words for making your point? Are they unambiguous? Are you using unfamiliar jargon or acronyms?
 * Preparing Your Slides - Prezi or PowerPoint: **
 * Presentation Design **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Let the picture or graphics tell the story - minimize the use of text.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Don’t overload your slides with too much text or data.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">FOCUS. In general, using a few powerful slides is the aim.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Type key words in the PowerPoint Notes area listing what to say when displaying the slide. The notes are printable.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Number your slides and give them a title.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prepare an Agenda or Table of Contents slide. You can reuse the same slide at the end of the presentation by changing the title to Summary.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prepare a company logo slide for your presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can add a logo and other graphics to every slide using the slide master feature or by adding them to the footer.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proofread everything, including visuals and numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Keep “like” topics together.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strive for similar line lengths for text.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Visual elements **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A font size of 28 to 34 with a bold font is recommended for subtitles. The title default size is 44. Use a san serif font for titles.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use clear, simple visuals. Don’t confuse the audience.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use contrast: light on dark or dark on light.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Graphics should make a key concept clearer.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Place your graphics in a similar location within each screen.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To temporarily clear the screen press W or B during the presentation. Press any key to resume the presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Text **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Font size must be large enough to be easily read. Size 28 to 34 with a bold font is recommended.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is distracting if you use too wide a variety of fonts.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Overuse of text is a common mistake.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Too much text makes the slide unreadable. You may just as well show a blank slide. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stick to a few key words.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If your audience is reading the slides they are not paying attention to you. If possible, make your point with graphics instead of text.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can use Word Art, or a clip art image of a sign, to convey text in a more interesting way.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Numbers **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Numbers are usually confusing to the audience. Use as few as possible and allow extra time for the audience to do the math.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Numbers should never be ultra precise:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Anticipated Revenues of $660,101.83” looks silly. Are your numbers that accurate? Just say $660 thousand.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The Break Even Point is 1048.17 units. Are you selling fractions of a unit?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Don’t show pennies. Cost per unit is about the only time you would need to show pennies.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you have more than 12-15 numbers on a slide, that’s probably too many.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Using only one number per sentence helps the audience absorb the data.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Statistics **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use the same scale for numbers on a slide. Don’t compare thousands to millions.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When using sales data, stick to a single market in the presentation. Worldwide sales, domestic sales, industry sales, company sales, divisional sales, or sales to a specific market segment are all different scales. They should not be mixed.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cite your source on the same slide as the statistic, using a smaller size font.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Charts **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Charts need to be clearly labeled. You can make more interesting charts by adding elements from the drawing toolbar.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Numbers in tables are both hard to see and to understand. There is usually a better way to present your numerical data than with columns and rows of numbers. Get creative!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PowerPoint deletes portions of charts and worksheets that are imported from Excel, keeping only the leftmost 5.5 inches. Plan ahead.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Backgrounds **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Backgrounds should never distract from the presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Using the default white background is hard on the viewer’s eyes. You can easily add a design style or a color to the background.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Backgrounds that are light colored with dark text, or vice versa, look good. A dark background with white font reduces glare.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Colors appear lighter when projected. Pale colors often appear as white.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Consistent backgrounds add to a professional appearance.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For a long presentation, you may want to change background designs when shifting to a new topic.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Excitement **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Slides for business presentations should be dull! You don’t want to distract the audience.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sounds and transition effects can be annoying. Use sparingly.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Animation effects can be interesting when used in moderation.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Too much animation is distracting.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Consider using animated clip art
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Consider using custom animation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can insert video and audio clips into PowerPoint.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can also insert hyperlinks.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hints for Efficient Practice **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Timing - Practicing Your Presentation, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Talk through your presentation to see how much time you use for each slide.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Set the automatic slide transition to the amount of time you want to spend discussing each slide.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Are you using the right amount of time per slide? Decide which slides or comments need alteration to make your presentation smoother.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Change the automatic slide transition settings for individual slides to fit the amount of time needed for that slide and practice again. Are you still within the time limit?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Decide if you want to remove the automatic slide transition feature before giving the presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Content **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Make a list of key words/concepts for each slide
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Read through the list before you begin.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Don't attempt to memorize your text;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your words will probably be different each time you practice.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Think about the ideas, and your words will follow naturally.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">According to MLA style, you must have a Works Cited page at the end of your research paper. All entries in the Works Cited page must correspond to the works cited in your main text.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #603c14; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Basic rules

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50. Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #603c14; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Additional basic rules new to MLA 2009
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> **New to MLA 2009:**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">For every entry, you must determine the Medium of Publication. Most entries will likely be listed as Print or Web sources, but other possibilities may include Film, CD-ROM, or DVD.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Writers are **no longer required** to provide URLs for Web entries. However, if your instructor or publisher insists on them, include them in angle brackets after the entry and end with a period. For long URLs, break lines only at slashes.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">If you're citing an article or a publication that was originally issued in print form but that you retrieved from an online database, you should type the online database name in italics. You do not need to provide subscription information in addition to the database name.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #603c14; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Capitalization and punctuation

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc, but do not capitalize articles (the, an), prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle: //Gone with the Wind, The Art of War, There Is Nothing Left to Lose//.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">**New to MLA 2009**: Use italics (instead of underlining) for titles of larger works (books, magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter works (poems, articles)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #603c14; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Listing author names
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Entries are listed alphabetically by the author's last name (or, for entire edited collections, editor names). Author names are written last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Burke, Kenneth <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Levy, David M. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Wallace, David Foster <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">//Do not// list titles (Dr., Sir, Saint, etc.) or degrees (PhD, MA, DDS, etc.) with names. A book listing an author named "John Bigbrain, PhD" appears simply as "Bigbrain, John"; do, however, include suffixes like "Jr." or "II." Putting it all together, a work by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be cited as "King, Martin Luther, Jr." Here the suffix following the first or middle name and a comma.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #603c14; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">More than one work by an author
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">If you have cited more than one work by a particular author, order the entries alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place of the author's name for every entry after the first:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> Burke, Kenneth. //A Grammar of Motives//. [...] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> ---. //A Rhetoric of Motives//. [...] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">When an author or collection editor appears both as the sole author of a text and as the first author of a group, list solo-author entries first:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> Heller, Steven, ed. //The Education of an E-Designer//. Heller, Steven, and Karen Pomeroy. //Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design.//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #603c14; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Work with no known author
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Alphabetize works with no known author by their title; use a shortened version of the title in the parenthetical citations in your paper. In this case, Boring Postcards USA has no known author:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> Baudrillard, Jean. //Simulacra and Simulations//. [...] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> //Boring Postcards USA//. [...] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,mono; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> Burke, Kenneth. //A Rhetoric of Motives//. [...]