Short version
- Use the template I give you
- Copy the example carefully
- Do your best, but don’t worry. I’ll give feedback in class.
- You will have time to fix problems before submitting.
- Remember and avoid the same mistakes next time.
Long version
- Check the Title slide
- Is there a Title in Title Case?
- Is there Name, class and number?
- Check the Outline slide
- Copy your main titles. Usually 3 keyword lines:
- 1 line per body slide (for short/1-person presentations)
- 1 line per section (for long/group presentations)
- A decoration image
- Check the Body Slides Format
- Capitals are consistent. I recommend
- Every slide needs an image.
- Either for Decoration or Meaning (Figure)
- Decoration: Anything relevant. No penguins!
- Meaning: Map, graph, etc.
- Font: Size, colour, position have meaning. Be consistent (同質)
- e.g. Points = all 24 pt grey Arial top centre
- e.g. Title = all 36 pt white Arial middle left
- e.g. Cite = all 14pt grey Arial bottom right
- Remove words to fit on line, don’t shrink font
- Font: Check colours
- White text on light colour is hard to read
- Black text on dark colour is hard to read
- Check the Body slides APA
- Every slide needs APA in this kind of presentation.
- If you have 2 sources for one slide
- Option 1: Format carefully (citation just under fact, small font)
- Option 2: Both at bottom. Use semicolon (“Title,” n.d.; Suzuki, 2019).
- Check Body slides Content
- If you will say it, don’t write it
- Keywords, never sentences
- Bullet points, never sentences
- 2-3 bullet points and an image
- Bullets are LISTS
- At least 2 points at each level.
- One thing per level is not a list
- Check Body slides order
- For and Against
- REASON/TIME/STEP 1, 2, 3
- Description-Problem-Solution
- Before and After
- Not
For1 Against1 For2 For 3 Against 2 Against 3
- Not
1920, 1990, 1880
- Check Summary slide
- ONE SHORT keyword line for each point
- KEYWORDS not sentences.
- Don’t forget image
- Don’t need APA, usually
- Check References slide
- Do normal Invention checklist
- Most common mistakes for slides:
- In alphabetical order
- Burasage is not consistent
- Do or don’t do it.
- Don’t mix.
- Powerpoint/Slides doesn’t do burasage - you’ll have to copy it to Docs to fix it.
- Only list FACTS/IDEAS you used on slides
- Not decoration images.
- Those go on image sources slide
- Check Image sources slide
- Is the image decoration or fact/idea?
- If it was decoration, list its http address here.
- No APA in references list.
- No citation on slide
- If it was fact (e.g. map, chart)
- APA here
- APA in references slide
- Question slide
- No obvious questions (“Have you been to Antarctica”)
- No quiz Questions (“How many penguins live in Antarctica”)
- Different discussions (“Do you like penguins? What do you think about penguins? Would you be a penguin?”)
- No questions that need research (“How can we save the Galapagos penguin from disease?”
- For more on this, see Ask good questions