Presentations, Part 1 - Electoral Process

Presentations, Part 1

You'll be getting into groups of 3-4 people and working on a presentation to give to the class in two weeks on the electoral college and the electoral process in the United States.

Here's a good place to start to understand the electoral college:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)

Here's a good place to start to look at polls and gather information.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com

You’ll be giving a presentation in class that has:

• at least 10 slides
• no more than 15 slides
• contains at least 5 pictures
• Has text in different sizes

 Be certain to:

• Teach us about the electoral college and electoral process in the United States.
• Cover the states that are currently the most important to win to become the next President. They are:

Ohio

Florida

Virginia

Iowa

Colorado

North Carolina

Wisconsin

 Why are those states important? What are the current polls showing in those states? How has the state voted in the prior two elections (democrat or republican?)

What are the top 5 states for the MOST electoral college votes?

Here’s how you’ll be graded:
You'll be graded on:

Time.  Your presentation needs to be between 3 and 5 minutes.  Any shorter or longer and you'll lose 10 points.  Use a stopwatch and practice it at least 3 times so you know you're within the time frame.  (20 points)

Did you put effort into the presentation with pictures, text, and graphics.  Does it show that you put time into it? (20 points)

Do you have between 10 and 15 slides?  (20 points)

Did you keep to the 30 word limit on each slide? (20 points)

Were you able to talk about your subject and not just read what is on each slide?  You should be able to provide additional details as you go along.  Just use summary sentences on the presentation, then talk it through when you present.  (20 points)

You will not be graded on if you were nervous…so don’t worry about how you look…learn how to present ideas that you’re familiar with using a computer and yourself.  Practice will help.

I’ve suggested you use google docs presentations so it will playback on any computer.  If you choose to use Microsoft Powerpoint, make sure it will play fine from your laptop.
I can’t wait to see what you've learned about the election.

First Christian Academy
Technology and Computers Class, 10/3/2012

Headers, Footers, Footnotes, and Page Numbers.


Today’s assignment is to insert a header, footer, and two footnotes.

Your header should have your name, grade, and class.  It should be CENTER justified, bold, and look similar to this (but type your actual name instead of Your Name)

Your Name, 7th Grade, Computer Class

Your footer should contain First Christian Academy and your teachers name, be RIGHT justified, and look like this:

First Christian Academy, Mr. Caldwell

Then, insert a page number at the BOTTOM of the page (insert, page number, bottom of page)

This assignment will be two or more pages long.  You can copy and paste information from the web.  Please include a picture on each page (resize it to make it look nice, wrap text around it for extra credit).  Include a PAGE BREAK (by pressing control-enter or selecting insert, page break in the menu) to cause the second page to start where you want.

Include two footnotes that show where you found the information you presented.  Was it a internet site?  A magazine?  A book?  This will give you a brief idea on one way to format a footnote, choose the appropriate category for where you found your information and create your footnote with similar style:
http://class.guilford.edu/psci/rduncan/Footnotes%20Format.htm

example would look like this at the bottom of the page:
1 Lawrence Squires. “A virtual Tour of the White House, circa 1900,” National Landmarks: Then and Now, 1999 <http://www.natlandmk.com/hist> (21 August 2000).


You choose the subject matter...pick something that interests you.  Pets, cars, sports, vacations, electronics, bands, whatever you like.

Project is due October 10 at the beginning of class.  10% grade reduction for each day late.  Share your paper with me the day prior or that day by selecting share, then using the email address:  sean@firstchristianacademy.com    in the “add people” box then select done.