Introduction

Online content corresponds to face-to-face lecture, demonstrations, or reading assignments: it is how we usually first present concepts and skills to students.  For this assignment,  you need to create a brief (5-10 minutes) narrated Powerpoint presentation, a video tutorial, or a Web page or Word document.

You will need a microphone to create a narrated online presentation  (I use a $10 Labtec microphone).

Here are some tips to consider:

• Keep presentations concise.  If you do a Web page, break up the text with subtitles.
• Include an introduction to clarify the purpose and relevance of the presentation.
• Include examples, images, links, and/or stories to help make your presentation interesting and useful.
• Include a summary or conclusion to restate the most important points.
• Before you begin, browse A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence & see if you can find any tips relevant to your presentation objectives. Try a few suggestions!
• Use the notes feature of PowerPoint to create a transcript for deaf students.  You can quickly publish an Web version of your PowerPoint slides that includes the notes
  (File ->  Save as WebPage).

What to Do

PowerPoint

1. Identify an existing PowerPoint Presention or create one.
   
2. There are several ways to narrate a PowerPoint presentation online and get it online.
   1. The easiest way is to just create your narrations within PowerPoint using Insert -> Audio in the menu.  Then you can just Save in a web format.  Here are some video tutorials to demonstrate:
      • Adding audio and notes to PowerPoint and saving in a web format
      • Uploading files to WebCT (you could also upload it to your web site and link to it from WebCT or Blackboard)
      • Creating a content module in WebCT
   2. Once your presentation is created, you will need to upload it to your Web site and link to it from WebCT or Blackboard.
   3. Submit a document to Blackboard that explains where I can find your presentation.

Web page, video, or Word Document

1. Once your web page, document, or video is created, you will need to upload it to your Web site or CMS and link to it from WebCT or Blackboard.
2. Submit a document to Blackboard that explains where I can find your presentation.

Submitting work

• Create a Word document that explains where to find your presentation.  Submit this document to Blackboard.