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Advanced PowerPoint Presentations - Due Dec. 19

We are going to enter into the realm of Advanced PowerPoint, which means we're going to design a presentation using all the various best and most compelling methods we can to keep our audience informed and interested.

The text file below holds the last verse of the Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas. In this song, someone sings of what their true love has sent them for each of the twelve days of the Christmas season.

We are going to make a slide presentation filling a slide with each day's present, with the song text superimposed over the image, and with smooth transitions between slides. We will start with the twelfth day simply because it names all the presents in one sequence.

Four issues will be uppermost in our presentations:

• Clarity of Imagery
• Clarity of text
• Appropriate smoothness of animations
• Appropriate smoothness of transitions

Phase 1 (This part is due Dec. 19):
Your first slide will hold nothing but the Title: The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Your second slide (Prelude) will have the words: "On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..." Put the words inside a frame on top of a very simple background. 
PLEASE NOTE: YOU MAY NOT USE ANY TEMPLATES FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT!

Each slide after that will be one of the days, counting down from 12.

Your last slide will hold your credits, which include your name, and the page source of EACH day's images. If you use PowerPoint clipart for any of the days, you must say that instead. Altogether, you should end up with exactly 15 slides = The main title, the prelude, twelve days, and the credits = 1 + 1 + 12 + 1 = 15.

The image part for each gift must fill the slide, and there must be the required number of repeats of the image for the day.

The pictured item is not animated, so that the viewer sees the image immediately followed by the words.

The text on each slide must be in an appropriate and legible font.  It must be visible over or alongside the imagery but cannot dominate the slide.

The text must appear via animation, BUT ONLY THE FIRST TIME IT IS SEEN and must enter smoothly and quickly. 
Every slide will use the same form of animation.

The transition to the next slide must be quick, but it also must be smooth. 
Every slide will use the same form of transition.

Phase 2:
Once I've seen and approved your 12th Day sequence, your next task is to create the entire song, copying and re-using the slides you've already made.  Don't build the entire song UNTIL I've approved your 12th Day collection. 

NOTES for PHASE 2:

• CHANGE for each day: The text must appear via animation, BUT NOW ONLY ON THE FIRST DAY IT IS SEEN. No animations for things repeated on subsequent days; in other words, animation will only happen on the new thing when it is introduced for the new day, which means, for example, that the words "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" will only be animated on one slide, "Two Turtledoves" will only be animated on one slide, etc. In the full song sequence, each animation of the text only happens now on the day it first appears, which means, for example, that the twelfth day will now have only one animation (on the 12th day) but all the other slides that follow will have no animations, i.e. the text appears at the same time as the images.
  
  
• Counting the Title slide, the Prelude slide, and Credits slide, you should end up with exactly 81 slides.
  
  
• This final file must be uploaded to this website using the widget below that says "Submit your assignments here:"
  

COMMUNICATE

Coding for the Web

Time to go deeper into what goes on behind the scenes of a webpage. We will use Google Sites to create another set of webpages, including using HTML code to make things more to our desires.

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Building Your Personal Website

Using the website you've been assigned, you are to create a multi-page website that has at least five separate pages (tabs):
Home: This is the overall introduction to your site. Do not include any "Welcome to..." lines, just get to the point and lay out what your site has with big section headers and links to other pages. A call-out of some kind on the first page is a nice way to feature something current you want your viewers to know about.

Page 2: This is your first sub-section. It has to be about something you are very interested in, but it SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT YOU.  Find useful information about your subject that you think others may want to know about, including relevant articles, images, videos, and so on.  It must include more than one of these things.

Page 3: This is your second sub-section and can be a blog page, or a portfolio page.  Put things on here that you are going to talk about.  Make them relevant to a single topic, even if the topic is very broad.  Make sure your viewers know what you're talking about. This page brings more of YOU into your site. Have a conversation with your readers!

Page 4: This is simply a page of interesting links.  The only requirement is that the links be grouped and labeled, or individually annotated. All links must work! See either my Cool Links page for organizational ideas, or my Link-A-Day page for annotation ideas.

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  Page 5: This is your third sub-section, and can be anything you want. It does not have to follow any theme. You can include things you think others might enjoy. Examples: links to and descriptions of online games you play, videos or interesting images of things you find intriguing, polls on people's favorite things, and so on.

• Notes:

• --Each sub-section has to be about something that is different from the other sub-sections.
• --Each sub-section must be a broad enough subject to pull in ideas and information from a variety of sources.

• --Every page should have some combination of text and graphics.
• --Every page should have a simple tab name that describes the content
• --Every link must go to the correct webpage. THIS IS CRITICAL!
• --Do not use anything on your site that could cause a problem for you, for someone else, or for the school.
• --No image, video, or audio files can be used if they are subject to copyright.
• --Make sure there is something on your site that tells me you did it (e.g. the site title, or some little line in the footer that says this is your site.) Don't make me (or your other viewers) guess.

COMMUNICATE

Ad Creation -
(choose TWO of the following items to do from the four listed)

1. Create two simple ads that are describing one Idea - one is trying to sell the Idea using mainly Card Stacking, the other is trying to keep you from buying into the same Idea by using mainly Name Calling.
2. Create two simple ads that are showing somebody using a product, but one uses primarily Plain Folks and the other uses primarily Testimonial to get someone interested - for the same product.
   
3. Create one simple ad that tries to get people on board with a real sports team that is the worst in its league using Bandwagon.
   
4. Create two simple ads that describe an unpleasant place to visit using Glittering Generalities in one and Transfer in the other.

Please submit your final ads via the uplink next door when you are sure you are finished.

EXPLORE

Techniques of Marketing and Propaganda

This assignment will require you to know these seven techniques used in marketing and propaganda:

• Transfer
• Glittering Generalities
• Card Stacking
• Name Calling
• Testimonial
• Plain Folks
• Bandwagon

The two presentations I show you in class should give you the awareness you need to try to find examples on the Internet yourself.
Remember, at the least:

• Transfer needs imagery mixed together,
• Glittering Generalities needs a lot of positive-sounding loaded words,
• Card Stacking needs a list,
• Name Calling needs a comparison,
• Testimonial needs somebody famous,
• Plain Folks needs normal folk in normal settings, and Bandwagon needs a group.

COLLECT

Blue Card Assignment

After you've selected your blue card in class, please submit a simple bulleted list in a Word file, with one bullet for each answer to a "5 W's" question:

• what is it for or what does it do?
• when was it first known or written about or patented or introduced publicly?
• where was it first known or seen or used or introduced?
• who is associated with its first use? (this could be an individual or group)
  
• why do you think it came into being - why would somebody invent it? (this is an important question - please answer with care.)

Please use and cite more than one source for each piece of information.

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