12 Steps for Creating Your Project Successfully

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1 12 Steps for Creating Your Project Successfully Step 1: One group member will open Google Slides and create a new blank presentation. Step 2: Click on the words Untitled presentation in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Rename your project with your myth s name followed by the names of your group members. (Ex. Prometheus and Pandora John Smith, Jane Doe, Jake Johnson) Step 3: Click on the blue SHARE button at the upper right hand corner of the screen. Share this new presentation with your group members and your teacher. When you share the presentation, make sure that editing privileges are turned on. Step 4: Create TWO extra slides at the end of your presentation. Title the first one Extension Question Response, and title the last one Works Cited so that you do not forget to include these elements later.

2 Step 5: Select your background image and apply this to all slides. Do this by right clicking anywhere in the background outside of a text box. Select Change background. Select the option for an image. Then either upload your own saved file or search the web within Google Slides. Make sure to choose a background that has some relation to your myth, that is relatively uniform in color, and does not have a lot of different high and low light areas. REMEMBER: You are going to be putting text over this, and you want to be able to read it. Once an image has been selected, click Add to theme to apply this to all slides.

3 Step 6: Type up your whole story. Make sure to tell your story in an engaging and understandable manner. If you notice you have too much text on one slide, split the text up onto to multiple slides instead. If you are including multiple sentences on each slide, provide adequate spacing between them. NOTE: THE EXTRA SPACE BETWEEN SENTENCES IS MORE ATTRACTIVE AND EASIER TO READ Step 7: Select a font, font size (size 24+), and font color for your presentation that is easy to read and attractive. You may use a different font for you title slide but keep your font consistent throughout all content slides. To make your text stand out even more from the background, you can apply a drop shadow by right clicking on the textbox and clicking on Format options. Check the box for drop shadow. Select a color for the drop shadow that will help the text stand out. Usually black for light backgrounds and white for dark backgrounds. Set the transparency to zero for high contrast. To ensure uniformity and save time right click on your slide to duplicate it rather than creating a new slide, and it will retain the same formatting.

4 Step 8: Add your images. Images should help to illustrate the events of your myth as closely as possible. REMEMBER: 60% of your content slides must have at least one picture on them, AND you must include the individual web URL for all pictures used in the presentation on the works cited page. To insert an image you can either choose from a saved file on your hard drive or Google Drive, search the web through Google Slides, or simply copy and paste a picture found anywhere in your web browser. Right click on your image and select Order > Send to back in order to place the picture behind the text.

5 To format each picture right click and select Format options Use the transparency slider on the right hand side to make it easier to see text in front of the image. Usually around 40% transparency is good. If you do not like the your image as a rectangle, you may change its shape by clicking on the dropdown arrow next to the crop tool and selecting the shape that you would like the image to be. NOTE: DO NOT FORGET THAT ONCE YOU ADD AN IMAGE, YOU NEED TO PASTE THE URL ONTO THE WORKS CITED PAGE.

6 Step 9: Add transitions between slides. To do this click Slide > Change transition. In the animation bar to the right hand side of the screen select Fade as the slide transition; then click Apply to all slides. Step 10: Add animations to each element of the slide. To do this right click on the text box or image you want to animate. Click on the objects in the order that you want them to appear in the presentation. Fade in should be the default animation. Keep it this way. It looks clean and professional. If you are animating text, that has been separated by spaces click on the words Fade in to bring up additional options and select the check box that says By paragraph. This will make each line of text appear on a separate click. NOTE: YOU MAY CHANGE THE ORDER OF THE ANIMATION BY USING YOUR CURSOR TO DRAG AND DROP THE ELEMENT YOU WANT TO REORDER IN THE ANIMATION PANE.

7 Step 11: Type up your answer to ONE of the FOUR extension questions. Your response should be 100 or more in length. Use the Word Count tool for help. This should be on the slide right before your works cited page. Step 12: Do a final check. Make sure you have all of your citations for both written and image sources on your works cited slide(s). Clean up the formatting. Check for any typos / errors. Double-check the rubric to make sure that you have met all requirements for the assignments. Do a practice run-through of your presentation to make sure it runs smoothly.