300 points

My Topic:__________________

Presentation Date:____________

Each day a student will give a 7-10minute presentation on an assigned technology topic. Your mission is to educate the class on your topic. What is it ? Why is it important ? How does it work ? What is its history ? What is its future?, etc. This is a homework assignment. You will have very limited time in class to work on it.

You will give your presentation at the beginning of class on your assigned date. If you are not ready to give the presentation on your assigned day, you will receive a 100 point penalty.

You may also redo your speech for a better grade - but with a 100 point penalty.

• You are expected to use google slides to aide your presentation.
• You may not include a video in your presentations.
• I am open to suggestions on changing your subject. You MUST get any change approved at least one week prior to your speech.
• A grading rubric is included as an attachment at the bottom of this page.

Wikipedia , “howstuffworks.com”,  and youtube are great sources of information for your presentation.

See attachments below for grading rubric and speech schedule

During each speech all other students will write a 1/2 page summary (in standard paragraph form) using appropriate

technological terminology.

The summaries will be collected and graded each week. You can not turn these in late.

The 3 most common mistakes:

1. The speech is not 7 minutes.  This effects your grade significantly. When you practice your speech at home, aim for 10 minutes. You tend to speak faster during your presentation.
2. Lack of eye contact / reading the presentation.  It is ok to use note cards, but make sure you are not "reading" the presentation. Make lots of eye contact with your audience.
3. Too much Information on a slide. Less text is better. Use Diagrams, pictures, words, not whole sentences or paragraphs.