The State Board of Education found that colleges and businesses want students and employees

to be able to make and present an electronic presentation.

Colleges use presentations for:

Reports

Projects

Businesses use presentations for:

Training

Universities professors, more and more, require oral and visual presentations as well as writing
for assignments. Businesses require employees to report and train using presentations also.

It is important that your presentation be written well with good spelling and punctuation as well
as good visual elements.

No one wants to do business with a company whose advertisements, web pages, or

communications have errors in them. People won’t do business with a company that doesn't
look professional. And you don’t want to look dumb in front of your boss or college professor.

Back in the 1970s when I managed three departments for a large department store I was
required to report every two weeks to the store director and other department managers. Back
then I had to use hand drawn charts on poster board and give out numbers reporting amount of
sales, cost of goods sold, labor costs, projections of sales, items I wanted to put on adds for the
week and how much my department would make on each sale item as well as where in the store
I was going to put my displays. It would have been so much easier with a PowerPoint
presentation.

Backgrounds, Themes, and Clip Art

Animations

Transitions

Saving and Printing

Your project is a presentation on yourself. That is the easiest way to start as you don’t have to do
a lot of research. Think about and write down on some scratch paper, some of the most
important things that you think other people should know about you. Don’t get too detailed or
personal, but include some things that would help make the presentation interesting and
informative.

These are the steps we will go through as we build your presentation.

You Will Use All Nine of the Following Topics for Your Presentation:

Where I Live

How Many People Are in My Family

My Hobbies

My Favorite Foods

What I Want to Do When I Finish School

The Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me

My Favorite Music

My Favorite Sports

Conclusion

These are the topics you are going to use in your presentation. Make sure that you cover all of
these and do it in this order covering all nine topics.