The topic may be any subject that you are comfortably familiar with.  (Hobbies, people, sports, movies, food, vacations, pets, family, etc., but please keep it clean!)

Choose a topic that you can easily organize into at least three distinct sections to form the body of your presentation.  

On this slide, please display at least one photo pertaining to your topic (may be displayed as the slide background or simply placed on the slide), one photo of yourself (may be superimposed in a corner if you like), the title of your topic, your name, the name of the course and the date.   Do not display any navigation buttons on this slide.

Please set a transition for the Intro slide (other than Appear) and as the slide opens, please play a sound file containing voice narration mixed with music in which you greet the user and introduce yourself and the topic of your presentation. 

All photos and text blocks on this slide should build automatically and  appear in sync with your narration, as we did in our class tutorial.  

Configure the Intro slide to advance automatically (i.e. without requiring user intervention) to the Menu slide no longer than two seconds after your narration/music ends.  This is the only slide that should advance automatically to the next slide.

For navigation, please display one photo and some plain text  (not graphic text) for each of the three topics of your body slides.  Configure each photo and text as hyperlinks via which the user can view each of the three sections (body slides) of your presentation. 

As the Menu slide opens, please play a voice narration instructing the user to select from the links displayed to learn more about your topic.  This narration does not have to be mixed with music, but you may do so if you wish.

Display at least a slide title and two photos on each slide.  Next to or below each photo, display text captions or keywords.

On one of the body slides, replace one photo with a Windows Media (WMV) video clip pertaining to that slide's topic.  The video must be between 10 seconds and 60 seconds long, at least 320 x 240 pixels, and must include at least 5 seconds of your voice as narration.  Configure the video clip to play only when clicked on, then display text next to or below the clip informing the user of the format and length of the video and instructing the user to click on the clip to view it.

Maintain the same typefaces and font sizes throughout your body slides.  For example, if you display a title in Arial 36pt and body text in Arial 24pt on one body slide, then do so for the other body slides as well.

Avoid clipart.  Use photo realistic images instead.  

Please narrate your body slides.  You may use voice narration only, or you may mix voice and music.  Configure your text and images to appear onscreen automatically and in sync as your narration mentions them, like we did in our class tutorial.  

In the NOTES section of every slide that contains narration, please type full-sentence, verbatim text transcripts of your narration in order to make your presentation accessible to the hearing impaired.  

Tip: Before recording narration for a slide, type what you want to say into the Notes section of that slide, then read from those Notes as if they were scripts while recording your narration using the "remote" feature within Sound Forge.

All Home buttons should link to your Menu slide, not to your Intro slide.   In addition, please make the home button on the Menu slide inactive by placing a grayed-out inactive copy of the button on top of the active one, as we did in the class tutorial.

On your Glossary slide(s), display photos and full-sentence definitions or descriptions of at least two terms displayed on two separate body slides within your presentation.

On your Glossary slide(s), please display only one navigation button.  This button should return users to the Last Slide Viewed, not to the Previous slide.  Do not display any other navigation buttons on this slide.

Narration for your Glossary slide(s) is optional, but may not be used in place of text and photos.

Use only those Windows fonts that are included with Office 2000.

Maintain good contrast between text and backgrounds on all slides. 

Avoid clipart.  Use photo realistic images instead.  

Use proper grammar, punctuation, spelling and capitalization throughout all slides and notes.  

Please normalize all sound files to 100%.  Avoid distortion and puff effects.  Keep a consistent volume level throughout your project.  Wherever your voice narration is mixed with music, your voice must be clear and easy to hear and understand.

Configure all sound files so that the speaker icon is not visible on the slide in Slide Show view, but is visible on the slide when in Normal view.

Submit your project on disk in three formats, as shown in the class tutorial:

1.  As a regular PowerPoint presentation 
2.  As a PowerPoint Show 
3.  As a series of JPEG images

Please submit your files on one disk.  If you have other files stored on that disk, then please place your Multimedia Presentation Project files into a folder named Multimedia Presentation Project.  In the same folder as your project files, please store any sound or video files necessary to make your presentation play properly.