Designing Effective Visuals: PowerPoint

Chapter 14 provides you information regarding delivering presentations and developing effective visuals.

This week you will create a PowerPoint using the guidelines from the chapter and materials below. Before you complete the assignment:


Read the
Designing Effective Slides Lecture Notes
 

Read 
Presentation Zen: Designing Effective Slides Handout
(opens in external file) 

Read  pages 450 – 453 of your textbook 

Watch the below example presentation from BCOM 2050 Onground (student gave permission to show)


              Play media comment.             

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation Video using the criteria below.


You can tell the class about a hobby of yours, teach the class something, or do an about me presentation. 

Your slides should be visible and your voice should be easily to hear and understand (extra credit if you are in the video)

Your presentation should be 3 minutes in length and have 3-7 slides,  including a title slide and work cited (citation) slide. Citation for  final slide:


Works Cited

Thill, John V., and Courland L. Bovée. 
Excellence in Business Communication
. 13th ed.,

      Pearson, 2020.

2. Embed your presentation for grading.  Review the
How to Upload via Canvas Tutorial (Links to an external site.)
(if recorded via Zoom or your own recording device) and the 
How to Upload & Embed Presentations Document prior to uploading (if recorded via ScreenCastOMatic)

GRADING RUBRIC

Presentation


Presentation embedded by due date -
10 points
 

Both presenter and slides shown during presentation -
20 points
 

Presentation at least three minutes long -
5 points
 

A title slide with your name and a title for your PowerPoint -
5 points
 

Slides with text use good visual design (fewer words)  -
5 points
 

No typos, misspelled words, grammatical errors -
5 points
 

Both slides and presenter (you) were visible
- +10 Extra Credit Points