PowerPoint Presentations, Sec. 01 (UPDATED)

As you know, this semester you and a classmate will be responsible for a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation and a class hand-out.

By midnight on Friday, February 8th, you and a partner should be signed-up for a topic and date.  All topics and dates are first-come first-served. Topics will be crossed off as they are chosen. Anyone that has not chosen by this time, will automatically be assigned a partner, topic, and date.

Follow these steps:

1. Click on "Comments" at the end of this post.
2. In the "Post a Comment" box, leave the group's names (first and last), section, topic, and the preferred date—only one entry per group is required. 
3. Be sure that you sign up in the correct section.
   

Example:
David Cortez and Kerry Clancy: #15 - The Life and Times of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, 03.11.13

Follow these guidelines for the presentation:

Requirements:

• The work distribution is up to each pairing, though it should be somewhat equitable
• The presentation must be approximately 10 minutes in length
• There should be approximately 10 slides, including at least one video clip (no more than 2-3 minutes in length)
• Must include a handout outlining your presentation (25 copies) 
• On the day of your presentation, email both your presentation and handout to me at dhdelao@gmail.com.

The best presentations will likely:

• Open with cover and introduction slides
• Begin by contextualizing the topic, then presenting relevant information 
• Include visually interesting illustrations
• Avoid a heavy use of animation and effects, choosing instead a compelling visual style
• Engage the class through a conversational style, utilizing questions and/or activities
• Utilize multimedia, such as YouTube*
• Conclude with a summarization of the information presented  

Remember, this is an opportunity to be creative, so feel free to have fun with the visual layout of your presentation.

Lower scoring presentations might:

• Begin without an introductory slide and/or fail to offer contextualization
• Be thinly researched
• Allow visuals to overrun their content
• Not engage the class in any meaningful way
• Fail to incorporate any multimedia
• Conclude without a concluding slide

*Here is a quick video explaining how to embed a YouTube clip into PowerPoint 2007. Embedding clips can save time during a presentation.

Remember, you are responsible for providing your own laptop.

Choose from a list of topics, then dates, below:

1. The History of the National Enquirer
2. Great Hoaxes: Orson Welle’s The War of the Worlds
3. Lives Lived Through a Lens: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Michael Jackson
4. Dark Hollywood: The Fatty Arbuckle Scandal
5. Mark David Chapman: The Man Who Killed John Lennon
6. Entertainment for Men: The History of Playboy
7. Sarah Burnhardt, The Most Famous Actress the World Has Ever Known
8. Mommie Dearest and the Celebrity Tell All
9. The American Showman: PT Barnum
10. FF: The World of Fan Fiction
11. Dark Hollywood: The Black Dahlia
12. The Great American Pin-Up Girls
13. Great Hoaxes: Balloon Boy
14. Fame Seekers: Why People Want to be Famous
15. The Life and Times of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
16. Tales of the Hollywood Sign
17. "The Crime of the Century": The Lindbergh Kidnapping
18. Dark Hollywood: The Roman Polanski Scandal
19. John Hinckley Jr.: Jodie Foster Stalker and Would-Be Presidential Assassin
20. The Celluloid Closet: Being Gay During Hollywood’s Golden Age
21. Inside the Studio System
22. History Rewritten: DW Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
23. Eight Men Out: Inside the Black Sox Scandal
24. The Queens of Hollywood: Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons

Choose from these dates:

Week 05

We 02.20

1. Katherine (Katie) Vu and Leslie Legacion - Great Hoaxes: Balloon Boy

Week 08

We 03.13

1. Elizabeth Baba and Kristine Mondala - The Great American Pin-Up Girls

2. Yvonne Oliva and Minh Do - John Hinckley Jr. : Jodie Foster Stalker and Would-be Presidential Assassin

Week 09

We 03.20

1. Aaron Nguyen, Justin Tu, and YuanYuan Jou (Michelle) - Fame Seekers: Why People Want to be Famous

Week 11

Th 04.03

1. Katherine Satsatin and Stephanie Pham - Mark David Chapman: The Man Who Killed John Lennon

2. Karen Villanueva and Jarenny Perez - Tales of the Hollywood Sign

Week 13

Mo 04.15

1. Alex Shen and Johncarlos Ochoa - Entertainment for Men: The History of Playboy

2. Bernard Watts and Brianna Pickens - Dark Hollywood: The Black Dahlia

We 04. 17

1. Karen Luu and Julian Rincon - "The Crime of the Century": The Lindbergh Kidnapping

2. Jia Liang and Vanessa Santos - The Celluloid Closet: Being Gay During Hollywood's Golden Age"

Week 14

Mo 04.22

1. Jennifer Gonzalez and Jaspinder Kaur - Lives Lived Through a Lens: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Michael Jackson

Week 15

Mo 04.29

1. Jimmy Kwong and Barry Louie - The American Showman: PT Barnum

2. Clarence Wu - FF: The World of Fan Fiction