Criteria

• Include an introduction slide, a conclusion slide with a call to action, and as many body slides between them as needed to effectively prove your position.

• Use graphics, charts, images, video, or other media to complement and help demonstrate your claims for your audience.

• Use appropriate wording, bullet-points, and details as needed to prove your claims.

• Speak in a calm and assertive tone, elaborating on points through explanation and reason. Speech should go above and beyond what is written on the slide without reading slides verbatim.

• Prove your position without relying on emotion or false logic; avoid logic fallacies.

• Address counterarguments to persuade your opposition.

• Include citations for the sources you used to prove your claims and support your argument. 

Rubric for Grading

4: Can perform the skills and criteria with fluency; Demonstrates a complete and detailed understanding of the requirements of organizing and performing a multimedia presentation.

3: Can perform the skills and criteria without making significant errors; Demonstrates an understanding of the requirements of organizing and performing a multimedia presentation. 

2: Makes some significant errors when performing the skills and criteria, but still accomplishes a rough approximation of the elements required; Demonstrates an incomplete understanding and/or misconceptions about some of the skills and criteria of organizing and performing a multimedia presentation.

1: Makes so many errors in performing the skills and criteria that significant misunderstanding or need for re-learning of elements is evident; Demonstrates incomplete understanding and/or so many misconceptions that the product reveals little to no understanding the elements required in oranizing and performing and multimedia presentation.

0: No evidence of learning; No submission provided; Submission off topic.

Transforming an essay to a presentation:

You learned when writing your essay in the last unit that there are certain requirements for an argumentative essay. Well, as you're changing the media for your messaging from essay to presentation for visual audience, those key components need to stay in play. You'll just need to modify how you're presenting that information. 

It's very important that you don't just paste your essay onto slides and read it word-for-word! Then, it is still just your essay-- not a multimedia presentation! So, how should you organize your slides to include all the right information?

Read over the infographic provided here.

I suggest you bookmark it for later use. You're going to want to come back to this; I promise!