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Please create a self-running,
narrated, interactive, multimedia PowerPoint presentation
containing an Intro slide, a Menu (home) slide, three or more
body slides, and a Glossary slide. 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 about which you can discuss three main things so that you can logically organize this presentation into at least three body slides.
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The Intro slide should serve
as a splash screen and should only appear when the viewer first
runs 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 No Transition). As the Intro slide opens, please play a sound file containing voice narration (your voice) mixed with music in which you greet the user and introduce yourself and the topic of your presentation. For assistance recording and mixing voice with music, visit the Business Communication Center in Price Hall room 2050. Refer also to Recording and Optimizing Audio in Sony Screenblast SoundForge (MS Word .doc) for instructions on configuring a PC for audio recording, and for instructions on how to use SoundForge. Configure the Intro slide to advance automatically (i.e. without requiring user intervention) to the Menu slide no longer than three seconds after your narration/music ends. This is the only slide that should advance automatically to the next slide. |
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On the Menu slide, please
display the title of your topic and at least one photo
representing your topic.
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. NOTE: If you prefer to record your narration directly into PowerPoint for this slide rather than creating a sound file first via SoundForge, see Record a voice narration from the Microsoft website. |
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Please include at least three
body slides. On each body slide, please display at least a slide title and two photos. Next to or below each photo, display text captions or keyword phrases. Photos must pertain to what each slide is about. Remember to show what you are telling about. When discussing people, places or things, show photos of the actual people, places and things. Use photo quality images, not clipart. Maintain the same typefaces and font sizes throughout your body slides. For example, if you display a title in Arial 32pt and body text in Arial 20pt 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. If you prefer to record your narration directly into PowerPoint for your body slides rather than creating a sound file first via SoundForge, see Record a voice narration from the Microsoft website. |
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In the NOTES section of
every slide that contains narration, please type
full-sentence, verbatim text transcripts of your
narration. This will make your presentation accessible to
the hearing impaired.
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On the Menu slide and all body
slides, please display navigation buttons for Next,
Previous, Home, Exit and Mute via the slide master.
Do not manually place or copy these buttons onto each slide.
All Home buttons should link to your Menu slide, not to your Intro slide. 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 lab tutorial. (Get a copy of it from the master slide, paste it into your Menu slide, change the color of it to grey, then remove the hyperlink.) |
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Include one Glossary slide.
This slide is to be an auxiliary slide that users can jump to
directly by clicking on hyperlinked terms displayed on two or
more of your body slides, as demonstrated in the lab tutorial. On your Glossary slide, display photos and full sentences defining or describing at least two terms that are displayed on separate body slides within your presentation. The Glossary slide must contain 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. (Either hide them by placing a box over them, or select the option to Omit Background Graphics from Master). Narration for your Glossary slide is optional but may not be used in place of text and photos. |
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| 8. | Set up your show (presentation) to be browsed at a kiosk and to use slide timings. Make sure the pop-up menu is disabled and that your users can navigate among your slides only by clicking the appropriate navigation buttons. | ||
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Do not display pixelated, blurry or
jagged images nor images with distorted aspect ratios.
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. |
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Record all sound files at 22Khz,
16-bit, mono.
When using SoundForge, normalize all sound files to -6 dB after recording them and before saving them. 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. Avoid distortion and puff effects. 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 in Normal view. |
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Submit your project on a CD in three
formats, as shown in the lab tutorial:
To make your presentation play properly on any PC, store any linked sound and/or video files in the same folder as your PowerPoint (.PPT) file. |
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.