Description

• First, take a moment (a long one) to put together a presentation theme. Some suggestions: your "sales" figures from the Word/Excel homework; or your "thesis", which you worked on in a previous assignment; or if you happen to have an impending presentation/seminar/lecture on some other subject, you may also take this opportunity and turn the assignment into a real slide show.
• We expect you to prepare at least 8 slides
• There are some ready-made presentation formats in powerpoint, which you will need to find and explore. However, use only the templates or your own custom slides should be used for the presentation; not the auto content wizard stuff. Some template directories are loaded, while others may be skimpy. You can also find tonnes of templates on the Microsoft/powerpoint web site, a repository of all sorts of nifty powerpoint stuff, including sound.
• Take some time to explore the capabilities of Powerpoint, especially with regards to its compatibility with drawing software, equation editors (if your system has them), excel, Word, html.
• You are not expected to use all of the above software packages in your finished assignments, but should include some of these sophisticated features in some way.

  Instructions

• Your presentation of 8 or so slides should be made into a slide show. You need to rehearse and record the timings as well as the slide to slide transition.
• The process of importing Word/Excel pictures and objects, as well as other types of graphics is a relatively easy affair. We expect you to exploit this capability in your presentation. However, do not expect it to work smoothly. In order to avoid disappointments ALWAYS add one thing at a time, save the file, and then try it out. This is true for anything involving software.
• You should hand in a hard copy with the summary presentation: this hard copy MUST be only a couple of pages long, so you need to find (on your own) the slide sorter and the option under the print menu that will put all your slides in a few pages. This feature is not only good for getting a quick summary, but also to create handouts in presentations.