Colleges & Careers

Think of the best presenters you've witnessed in life. Think of what captivated you in their presentation. Why did it? How do news anchors, comedians, and sports casters tell stories? How do they inform and entertain? Think of a presenter that got your total attention. How did they do it? How did they keep your attention? Think of the presenters in class this year. What was good and what wasn't? Why?

It's now your turn. You are responsible for researching, preparing, designing, and presenting your midterm project to the class before December 14th. We will begin the presentations on the 10th so be prepared. Don't delay. Get busy now!

For this project, you get to decide the colleges or careers to present. You'll present the topic in complete detail using multimedia software to inform and entertain your audience. The presentation should consist of a very descriptive, thorough, and complete over view of your chosen profession or degree plan. It should contain various media such as text, images, animation or videos, and audio (sounds, narration, music, etc). Your multimedia presentation should be directly relevant to a college and degree plan or a career path. This should be very informative and beneficial to your future and the students in our course. The multimedia presentation should not be created in PowerPoint. Use alternative presentation applications such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Premiere, After Effects, or open source shareware such as Prezi.com, Sliderocket.com, or another program of you choice. Presentations should be well organized, entertaining, show a consistent theme, a clear use of the design principles, and look professional.

You have several options to choose from below.

• Choose two colleges to compare and contrast the same technology degree programs. Include all pertinent information in terms of location, tuition, relevant degree plans, campus size, student population and demographics, university history and reputation, etc.

• Choose two technology careers to compare and contrast. Include all information that is involved in acheiving and maintaining employment positions and beginning or transitioning into a career.

• Choose a college and a career path to present to the class. Ideally the presentation will consist of a plan of a sequence of necessary steps to acheive a secure future in technology. What college will work for what career? Why? How should it be accomplished?

Additional information is expected to all the above options. Be as thorough and informative as possible.

Practice your presentation before the day. Plan it out. Time it. Limit presentations to 4-8 minutes. Get Creative!