Overview
When you are applying for a job, sometimes your future employer want to be sure they are comfortable with who you are and your background. Creating a slideshow of your background will help you understand more about yourself and allow others to learn more about you while applying various computer and media skills.
Directions
Using PowerPoint create a slideshow about yourself using the requirements below. Each bullet is suggested to be separate slide but you may make more than one slide per topic (e.g. friends). Insert at least one picture of each topic on your slide. You can choose the titles for each slide. Create a theme for your PowerPoint that is consistent (i.e. oldies/classic, sports, cartoon character) and also choose three main colors to work with consistently (not including black and white).
Time
Your PowerPoint presentation must be 4-6 minutes otherwise you will be deducted points. You do not have to talk about everything on each slide, just the highlights.
Required Slides*
Optional Slides (you must choose a minimum of three from the list below)
PowerPoint Minimum Requirements
(at least one of each of the bullet descriptions below must be in your PowerPoint):
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Narrate
Now that you have created your slides, you will narrate each slide. Use a microphone to record and narrate each of your slides. Do not spend a huge amount of time on each slide and do not just read verbatom what is on the slide. Instead, be creative and just explain the slide in your own words. Be creative when you explain the slides. The total time limit for the slide narrations with your video is no longer than six minutes.
Record
When you are finished, you will play your PowerPoint slideshow and record the slides and audio using your camera. Set up your camera on a pile of books near the monitor (make sure it is an LCD monitor) so there is no camera shake. Ensure the volume is loud enough to hear the narrations. When you are finished, you can edit the video in a program (WMM, iMovie) and adjust the volume, crop the video, etc.
Embed
Finally, upload your video to your Me 2.0 YT channel and embed the video at the bottom of the About page on your Blogger.
Adding sound to Powerpoint Help
Use the ‘record narration’ feature
1. Make a folder and put your Powerpoint Presentation in it
2. Open your Powerpoint presentation
3. Go to slide show>record narration
4. Click on ‘set microphone level’ then follow the prompts. A green light
means you are getting some sound!
5. You can choose the quality of the sound recording, but be aware that
this will have an effect on the file size. Click on ‘change quality’, and
select from CD, radio, or telephone in the drop down ‘name’ box. CD,
shown in the diagram below, is high quality.
6. Click OK
7. Tick the ‘link narrations in’ box, at the bottom left hand side, and then
browse and select the same folder that
8. Click OK
9. You are straight into record mode, so simply go through the slideshow,
recording whatever narration you want on each slide, and it should stay
in sync with any ‘builds’ you have on each slide.
10. When you reach the end of your slides, press esc, then select ‘save the
timings’.
11. Play back your masterpiece.
12. If you need to re-record a slide, simply go to that slide and select it on
the left hand menu, go through the ‘record narration’ process and
select ‘current slide’.
13. You can pause recording by right-clicking on the slide, and esc to stop
recording.
14. Note: this will only work with slides that animate (if at all) using a
mouse click. On automatic animation, it won’t work. For more info see
the website below.
Tips:
• Test record a few slides before recording the entire show.
• Don’t click onto next slide too fast or you will lose the last word or two
from your narration.