Hybrid Cars Project

EQ - How can I enhance the design of a PowerPoint slideshow?

1. Activator - Daily Overview
2. Customized Theme Challenge
1. 10 minutes
2. Museum Walk & Vote
3. Favorite Things - Final Review
1. Rubric
2. Adjustments
3. Submit to Schoology
4. Your Turn - Is a Hybrid Car Right For You?
1. Together - What is important to you when choosing a car?
2. Search the web to find content to help you make your decision. (AO Foldable)
3. Create a PowerPoint using the Outline Pane
1. Slide 1 - Title Slide
2. Slide 2 - Intro/Agenda Slide
3. Slide 3 - Defining Hybrid Cars
4. Slide 4 - Factor 1
5. Slide 5 - Factor 2 
6. Slide 6 - Factor 3
7. Slide 7 - Summary/Conclusion (try to think of a more creative slide title)
4. Make the PPT attractive using the slide design elements and a customized theme.
5. TOD 
1. Which design element do you expect to use the most as we move forward?
2. In what class(es) will you most likely use each design element? How will you use it?

Customized Theme

EQ - How can I create a customized theme?

1. Activator: Chalk Talk - Elements of PPT
2. *Introduction to Customizing Themes*
1. Step by Step Project
2. Today's PowerPoint
3. Create a customized theme for your presentation
4. Update your Favorite Things PowerPoint
1. Rubric Review
2. Enhance your pictures using the extended tab
3. Create a customized theme
5. Collaborative Pairs
1.  What do you like about your partner's PPT?
2. What could they do to make it look better?
6. Make adjustments
7. TOD - Answer the EQ

Logical Approach to PowerPoint

EQ - How do I create a presentation with Custom Backgrounds and SmartArt Diagrams

1. Activator - Logical Approach to PPT
2. Introduction of Assignment*
3. TOD 
1. What was the easiest part of the assignment to complete?
2. The most difficult?

Successful Approach to PowerPoint

EQ - How can thinking logically about the Tabs of PowerPoint, help me use the features of the software? 

1. Activator - Splashdown the parts of the PowerPoint screen (14)
2. Worst Case Scenario: Bear Grylls
1. Video - HERE
2. Why does this escape plan make sense?
3. Discussion - How can logical thinking help us improve our accuracy?
4. A closer look at Tabs, Groups, and Commands
1. Advanced Organizer
2. Together - Spotting Trends of the Home Tab
3. Collaborative Pairs
5. Class Discussion - Logic and Using PowerPoint
6. TOD - Answer the EQ

Avoid Being Power Pointless

EQ - How can I avoid being PowerPointless?

1. Activator -  PowerPoint Standup
2. Worst PowerPoint EVER
3. Class Activity - How can we make this better?
4. Avoid Being PowerPointless - PPT
5.  Error Analysis
1. How would you make the sample PPT better?

Day 2

1. Introduction to Guacamole
2. Assignment 1
1. List 5 of your favorite things
2. Create a PowerPoint Slideshow to inform the class of these items
3. Small Group Presentations
4. Evaluation
1. What do you like about the design of the presentations?
2. What could be better about the design?
3. Small Group Presentations
1. What went well?
2. What could be better?
1. Design
2. Content
4. Self-Assessment
1. What did you like most about your PPT?
2. What areas in your Favorite Things PPT can you modify to avoid being PowerPointless?
5. Make adjustments to remedy these errors

Communication

EQ - How can we develop and communicate content for a presentation?

1. Activator - Communications Model *Quiz Next Class*
1. Parts of the model
2. 3 types of noise
3. Connection to PPT
2. Self-Assessment - Impact of Noise
3. Partnership Interview
1. Directions
2. Interview Time
3. Presentation Development (Content)
4. Present Your Partner
4. Tips for content development
5. TOD -  Reflection
1. What went well?
2. What could be better?
3. How could you better develop content to enhance communication?
6. If time permits - PowerPoint Pre-Assessment

Welcome to PowerPoint

EQ - How does the use of PowerPoint require an understanding of the communications model?

1. Activator - Whisper Down The Lane
1. Class Brainstorm - How does the lesson of this game relate to PowerPoint?
2. Communications Model 
3. Identifying Noise
1. External
2. Internal
3. Semantic
4. Self-Assessment
1. In what situations do you find yourself most distracted?
2. What are your worries/concerns (if any) when presenting to a group of people?
3. Did you experience noise during the Whisper Down The Lane game?  Explain why or why not?
5. TOD Part 1
1. Briefly summarize the communications model
2. How will understanding this model help me use PowerPoint more effectively? 

DAY 2

1. Activator - Acting out the communications model
2. AP - Communications Model Quiz
3. Know your Audience - Partnership Activity
1. Class discussion
2. Jot notes about your fellow classmates to keep in your notebook
4. Syllabus Review, Classroom Procedures, Expectations
5. TOD Part 2
1. What are you most looking forward to during your time in PowerPoint?