Learning Outcomes

Students will generate a list of ideas to create a clear, accurate, and engaging presentation that will become the guidelines for their presentation
Students will create a presentation that is clear -the information is easily understood, accurate - the information is correct, and engaging - the audience wants to learn more.
Students will learn to self assess their own presentations

Set-up

Have students in cooperative groups to facilitate the cutting and copying of ideas generated for a clear, accurate, and engaging presentation

Suggested Procedure

Discuss with students the importance of creating a presentation where the information is clear, the audience can understand it, accurate, the information is correct; and engaging, it keeps the audience wanting to hear more.

• Brainstorm with students what they will need to do to ensure that their presentation is clear, accurate, and engaging.
  
• Divide up the list among groups of students and have each group write each idea generated on a sentence strip
  
• Tell students that the next thing they need to do is categorize all of the ideas.

NOTE: the ideas should fall into three distinct categories:
1) content: what is the information to be conveyed?
2) professional appearance: is the information clear, neat, and accurate?
3) appearance (interface design): am I making appropriate graphic, text, audio choices to support my information?

Type up the information as students categorize and label the categories in pocket charts, in a check-off list format with a place for student names (see Presentation Guidelines as a sample guideline), and a place for another group to sign off on the presentation. Print off a copy of the list for each set of presenters

• Tell students that they need to follow the presentation guidelines they generated on this list as they are creating their presentation.
• Tell students that they need to have another group go through their presentation and check-off list to see if their presentation meets the class presentation guidelines.
  
• Tell students that when their group has completed their presentation and had it checked by another group, then they need to come to the teacher for the final check.

Assessment

The assessment for this assignment is the completed Presentation Guidelines check-off sheet, and the final teacher check. As the teacher goes through the check-off list and the presentation with each group, he/she is able to assess whether or not students understand how to create a clear, accurate, and engaging presentation.