Power Point Presentation 

The Challenge: Your PowerPoint presentation (s) will not  use templates  on the topic of Character  a timely initiative in education and adopted by the York Region District School Board .

Character Education: This is a fairly disciplined animation project. Timing between slides, transitions, colour, scale, layout, and animations will be up to you and they should be effective.

Process:

a) You will produce a slide for
3 character traits. 1 intro slide and 1 final summation slide thus 5 slides in total
b) For each trait
copy the written statement for each trait as written in the YRDSB website (cut and paste if you like)
c) Find a quote by a famous person regarding this character trait  [there are many quotes pages on the Net] and an excellent quote engine in the  Character  link!!  Or how about this quote engine.
d)
state an example of how   you   have demonstrated this trait in your own recent lifetime or have observed it in someone close to you that you admire.

e) include an image and or animation that you have searched and processed in PhotoShop

TO START .....
>> create a new blank presentation
>> create a total of 5 slides
>> title the top of each slide ( character traits etc. )
>> proceed to create suitable backgrounds quotes etc.
>> set up transitions and effects

Checklist of expectations       Tutorials

2) Your choice if time permits: in this part of the PowerPoint project you will produce a presentation of your choice that you will present to the class on a topic of your choice.
a) it should make minimal use of templates
b) it should be about 3 minutes long
c) it should run on its own and have appropriate slide transitions and animations
d) a clear concise introduction of your topic and the important points you want to cover as well as a final summary of the message you delivered

click here for the YRDSB Character traits simply cut and paste

Checklist of expectations   

POINTS to remember

Be careful to focus your presentation on several key points that you want to drive home so that the presentation will have impact, otherwise it could lose focus and lose the attention of your viewers.

We might use a projector to present the final product on the screen.

Your evaluation will be self peer and teacher according to the following chart. 

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)