Each week students will learn a skill that they'll be needing in order to complete the project, such as creating presentations, speaking in public, and the use of technology. I showed the students the slide I made below to get us started.
I took about 5 minutes to show students how to add an image as a background, insert text boxes, change the fill and text color. One thing the students utilized was the rotating of the text boxes. I also quickly shared how graphic design usually takes advantage of 2-3 colors. Once students created their presentations, named their document Period X-First Last, Presentation Slides and then shared, I peeked into each student's slide. If anyone is using Google Docs to create and share items, I'd highly recommend using a naming convention like I have. You can just hit the period and the name of the assignment and you'll have a list of all the students that shared.
I thought that students would take a few minutes and finish quickly so they can move onto their 20 Percent Projects, but many students used the whole class period to perfect their slides.
Most of the pointers that I was giving them were based on my preferences for design, but I was inspired by Slideshare. I get a weekly digest of the best slides of the week and when I have time I'll peruse them to get ideas for class.
The thing that I was emphasizing was having an engaging image with minimal text. I was really pleased with the work that the students did. Some students finished their slides and wrote on their blogs about their slide.
My intent wasn't for this mini-lesson to take the whole period, but the students were very zealous about creating good slides. I even had students that normally don't do anything turn in some very nice work.
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