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PROJECT 2: MEDIA & GRAPHIC ELEMENTS

 OBJECTIVEThe purpose of this project is to demonstrate your understanding of the following course concepts:

1. Insert and format graphic elements.2. Insert and format tables.3. Insert and format images.4. Insert and modify charts.5. Insert and format SmartArt graphics.6. Animate Slide Content.7. Insert and manage media.8. Set timings for transitions.9. Apply Slide animations.

 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONBusiness leaders need to be involved in information technology-any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information-processing needs of an organization. Search the Internet to find examples of the types of technologies that are currently used in the field or industry that you plan to pursue (or are currently working in). For example, if you are planning on a career in Marketing, you would research customer relationship management systems, blogs, eMarketing, etc.

Create a PowerPoint Presentation with your findings. Include a brief overview of the types of technologies you found and how organizations are using them to achieve a competitive advantage.

 FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS1. Number of Slides: Minimum of 15 slides and a maximum of 20 slides. Gradated penalty for too less or too many slides. This means that the more slides you are away from the 15-to-20 range, the more points will be deducted.  Note: The slide count excludes the title and bibliographical slides.2. Layout and Design: Slides must be easy to read and uncluttered (no more than 7 items to a line and no more than 7 lines to a slide). Keep it simple.3. Font Size: Use standard font like Times New Roman or Arial. Use 36-point font for title, 28-point font for main points, and 24-point font for secondary points.4. Footer: Include the slide number, title of your presentation, and your name in the footer (except on Title slide).5. Background/Theme: Appropriate Foreground-Background Segregation (use dark text against a light background or white or light-colored text against a dark background. This creates contrast.)6. Slide Transition: Apply slide transition to any TWO slides.

 PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS1. Title Slide: Include your name, course name, Instructor’s name and title: Technology Tools.2. Outline and Summary Slides: Slide # 2 must be your outline slide, this gives a list of the topics you will cover. The summary slide recaps all the topics you have covered.3. Contents: Include appropriate contents about the types of technologies and how these technologies are being used in your field or industry.4. Custom Table: Include one Custom Table created in PowerPoint. Apply the "Light Style 2 – Accent 6" table style and center the table horizontally on the slide.5. SmartArt: Include ONE SmartArt Graphic.6. Animation: Include one custom animated chart. The actual elements of the chart must animate (e.g., individual bars of a bar chart displaying one after the other), not the chart itself (e.g., the chart moving across the screen).7. Picture: Include TWO pictures of appropriate size, style and formatting. Apply an artistic effect of your choice.8. Video/Audio Clip: Insert a short appropriate video or audio clip to your presentation or audio clip.

a. If a video is used, Set the playback options so that the video starts playing automatically and rewinds after playing.b. If an audio is used, hide the speaker icon during a slide show and set it to start automatically.

9. Hyperlink: Insert an appropriate hyperlink to an external Website (One of the sites used in your research).10. List: The presentation must contain at least one bulleted list, one numbered list, and one customized list. 11. Screenshot and Screen Clipping: Capture and insert a screenshot or screen clipping into your presentation12. Reference Slide:  Minimum of TWO professional / scholarly sources cited using APA formatting. Sources must be cited on the slides as well as on the Reference Slide.

NOTE 1: Please do not use unprofessional sources such as Wikipedia, About.com, Answers.com, Dictionary.com, How.com, or anything remotely similar.  Examples of scholarly sources include textbooks, articles, academic journals, and conference proceedings. Scholarly resources are written by experts in their fields, grounded in research, and often refereed (reviewed and edited by researchers in the field). Examples of professional sources include: trade journals or magazines. Professional sources are written for a specific audience that works in certain field. They are not research-based. You can also use our course content (e.g. Read & Watch resources) as a source as well.  UMGC has a top-notch, extensive online library. You can find many scholarly and professional sources there.

 PRESENTATION RESOURCESThe following optional resources may be helpful in completing this project:

1. Life After Death by PowerPoint (3 mins | Automatic Closed Captioning)This YouTube video provides great tips sprinkled in with humor! 🙂

 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTSPlease submit the following to your Assignments Folder:

1. The completed PowerPoint presentation file.2. Submit a Project Reflection (see below).

 PROJECT REFLECTIONAnswer the following questions when you submit your assignments files. 

1. What new information did you learn from this assignment?2. Where were your roadblocks?3. Using the grading rubric, how would you score your own work?

Please submit your Project Reflection as a Microsoft Word document or just copy and paste your answers in your Assignments Folder's text box when you submit your assignment along with the rest of the required project files.