English 9.4: Digital Newsletter Writing

Session 9 | Presentations (Google Slides)

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Session 9 | Presentations

Differentiating the Genres of Presentations and Newsletters

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Sharing Visual Stories with Google Slides

Now we're moving on from writing articles to arranging images into presentations.  Google Slides is a surprisingly powerful tool not only for presentations, but for image manipulation and online publishing.  In this course, we'll only be scraching the surface of what you can do with Slides, but we'll cover these concepts more in-depth in the Google Slides Section of the Yearbook Publishing Course.

During this part of ELA 9.3, here the key skills you'll learn:

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Session 1: Presentations vs. Newsletters (Genre and Collaboration)

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Sharing Slides: Individual Slides vs. Cohesive Presentation

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Building Visual Narratives

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Informative vs. Misleading Graphics

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Session 2: Finding and Citing Images (Copyright and Fair Use)

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Copyright, Fair Use, and Image Galleries

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Citing Images

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Plagiarism and Images

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Session 3: Capturing Attention (Audience)

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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

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Selecting Images for Audience Interest

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Slides as Notecards

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Session 4: Arranging Text and Images (Drafting)

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Multimodal Presentation: Spatial Relationships

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The Ethics of Charts and Data: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

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Notecards, Memorization, and Improv

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Session 5: Visual Effects (Technology)

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Slide Transitions

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Image Effects

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Publishing Slides Online

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Session 6: Giving a Presentation (Public Speaking)

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Mental Preparation: Improv as Academic Performance Art

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Looking Away from the Screen: Addressing Your Audience

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The Q&A: You Don't All Need to Agree on Everything

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