Gaming has driven advances in computer hardware and software throughout much of computer history. In this project it will advance your ability to work with PowerPoint, players' knowledge of the subject matter of the gaming materials you provide, your experience working on a collaborative document, and your entertainment level. This project is an outward facing quiz program in the form of a Jeopardy game. Unlike with the Quizzer, the audience is not yourself, but the players of your Jeopardy game. Don't worry, because you will get to play someone else's game.
The project is divided into two parts. The first part is online and collaborative. You work within your company, creating a shared Google Presentation document containing the Jeopardy questions and answers (or vice versa). This way everyone has access to all the questions and answers and you can even coordinate to create a more interesting game. You will have received an invitation that allows you to work on the shared documents. Links to the documents are on an activity page. What you come up with might be modelled on an example provided. The second part is offline and individual. You take all of the online contributions and combine them into a PowerPoint version of Jeopardy in which you are the host and present the questions in your own way. Customize as you like within the quidelines. You are also responsible for the Final Jeopardy question. A blank example Jeopardy game is provided to get you started.
Log onto Google and navigate to documents and your specific company's presentation. We will verify in class that you are able to do this.
Your document begins with only a title page that indicates you are working on the correct document. If you want to change it, you will have to work this out with the other employees.
Add a slide via the slide menu or the little plus icon. The title slide layout probably works the best.
On this slide write a name for the subject matter your questions address. This will wind up on the top of the Jeopardy columns so that people can request "Your Subject" for $400.
Write your name on the slide so that your coworkers and teacher know that it and the following slides belong to you.
After your subject slide insert ten more slides to house your questions and answers. Coordinate with your coworkers so that each person's slide appear as a group without being interspersed with others.
On your first and second slides write the subject and the dollar amount, $100. This is so that peole know where to incorporate your question and answer into the game. Write, for example, "My Subject for $100."
On the first slide write your first question (in the form of a statement) for Jeopardy if at all possible. Start with easier questions. Feel free to reuse your best questions from the Quizzer.
On the second slide write your first answer (in the form of a question).
On the second two slides, up the prize to $200. Pick a more difficult question and answer and add them to the two slides. Be neat and organized enough so that your coworkers can transcribe your information to their final PowerPoint presentations.
Repeat the last step through prizes worth $500 and your most difficult question and answer.
After your own questions and answers have been chosen and added to the online version of the document, you may begin work on the PowerPoint version with your own material. You will need to wait for others to finish, however, in order to complete this part.
Download the example Jeopardy game from the link above. Make sure that it runs and observe the timing of the automatic slide changes. Figure out what you need to do in order to host the game. This includes clicking on the different prizes, advancing through the question and answer, and returning to the main board. Replace "Who?" on the host page with your name.
Pick a column for your questions and enter your subject into the text box at the top of that column.
Since you may have only 15 or 20 questions to work with, delete everything from columns that will go unused. Keep in mind that there is a Daily Double question associated with one of the screens. You do not want to delete the column that is in.
Find the slides associated with your subject. Transfer your $100 question and answer to the first pair of slides. Test your presentation so far. To speed things up, start directly from slide four using commands from the Slide Show tab or use Shift-F5.
Add your four other questions and answers.
Now you are ready for the material supplied by your coworkers. If they aren't ready, help them out or jump to the Final Jeopardy question below and then check back here. Let the teacher know when your company is ready and the document will be made read only so that it doesn't change on you. Then, download it as a PDF or PowerPoint. This protects you from network outages. I will ask you to submit that file along with your own personal version.
Add the subject, questions, and answers of your coworkers just like you did your own.
Find the final Jeopardy question near the end of the slides. Add your own question and answer. This will be different from all the other ones from your team, because it will be better.
Double check all of your work. If you have clicked on a prize on the screen it will disappear and stay disappeared until the file is reloaded. Those dollar values are hyperlinks which turn blue when they are visited. They therefore turn invisible once clicked. Add any personalization you wish as long as it doesn't interfere with game play.
Save your presentation as Jeopardy, just as it started. There are no macros involved. Attach the file and the downloaded version of the collaborative document to an email and send them to the teacher. At some future date we will take time to play the games created by other teams.
Points are awarded in the categories below.
Online, collaborative
Title page
Marker slide added
Name for the subject matter
Your name
Ten more slides as a group
Subject and the dollar amount
First question
First answer
On the second two slides...
Repeat the last step through $500
Offline, individual
Replace "Who?"
Enter your subject
Delete columns that will go unused, but not Daily Double
Transfer your $100 question and answer
Add your four other questions and answers.
When ready, download a PDF or PowerPoint.
Add entries of your coworkers (10 points)
Add your own final Jeopardy question and answer
Double check all of your work and optionally personalize
Other
Single email
Two attachments