2. Step Explanation
Choose a topic You will start by choosing a topic that you find
interesting and want others to know about.
Research the topic Once you have chosen a topic, you will
research it using books, encyclopedias, and the
internet
Organize the research After collecting your data, you will structure
and organize it
Create the presentation Using presentation software, you will add the
content to the slides
Add designs, effects, and multimedia After adding text, you can jazz up your,
presentation with graphics, multimedia,
animations, and different slide designs
Edit the presentation Before presenting, you should edit your
presentation, fixing spelling and grammatical
errors
3. Activity A page 4
Presentation Topic Topic Phrased as a Question
Faeries What are faeries like?
Mythological creatures What are the most famous
mythical creatures?
Color meaning What does a color mean?
1. Faeries:
- What they can look like
- Where they are
- Stories about them
Mythological creatures
- who they are
- what they are viewed as
Color meaning:
- what the most influential
colors are
- the meaning of a color
2. I think the topic I
would find the most for
would be faeries. There is
a lot of mythology about
them and there are also
many pictures about
them.
3. I am going to talk
about faeries for my
presentation. The
central question I am
asking is: What are
faeries like?
4. WAYS TO RESEARCH
• Internet: one of the quickest and easiest ways to do
research. Not all information in reliable.
• Encyclopedias: contain articles on various topics
arranged in alphabetical order. Can provide you with a
brief overview of a subject you might be considering.
Compiled by experts.
• Books: rightly called the doorways to knowledge.
Includes online catalogs, electronic books/ eBooks.
• Journals: are magazines with a focus on specialized
topics. Experts will write journal articles. They will also
back them up with statistics.
5. PAGE 6
1. What do faeries look like?
1. How do faeries behave?
2. What are some types of faeries?
2. Faerie behavior
1. Faerie images
2. Faerie home
3. Faerie types
6. ACTIVITY B PAGE 7
TITLE LOCATION SUMMARY OF CONTENT
Faerie definition
(What is a
faerie?)
internet Also known as the fair folk or fey, are an extremely cunning
immortal race of “Downworlders” (mutts in a sense). They have
both angelic and demonic blood, attributing to both their
beauty and their malevolence. Also called: Kind Ones, Little
People, etc.
Types of faeries internet List on next slide
Faerie behavior internet Committed to honor and etiquette/ follow through with
promises to the T/ deliver results with great irony/ use clever
word play to their advantage in order to create loopholes/
cunning and cruel sense of humor/ find pleasure in tricking
humans/ long lived and become more artful and powerful as
they age/ absolutely unable to lie/ expertly weave lies into
sentences into sentences by using methods such as not telling
the whole truth- letting others assume things- not correcting
others with whom they are speaking/ does not apply to half fey
since they can lie/ playful but brutal
Faerie
characteristics
Internet Unearthly beauty/ fair skin (various pastel hues: blues/ greens/
violets/ even pearl)/ flora and vegetation in clothing/ delicate
regal features/ eyes the color of clear glass at times/
7. TITLE LOCATION SUMMARY OF CONTENT
Weaknesses internet Iron/ steel = not toxic but is an
alloy (does have some effect
on them/ rowan wood/ salt/
gravesoil/ holy water/ possible
midday sunlight
Seelie Court internet “The Faerie”/ the land under
the hill; unwelcoming to
outsiders; food/ drink trap
people in Faerie until they are
dismissed by the Queen
(which is usually thanks to the
use of a trick or a bargain); has
an inconsistent layout; time
flows differently- sometimes
slower but sometimes faster;
seasons change in the blink of
an eye; no map of Faerie has
ever been produced
8. FAERIE TYPES
• Brownies
• Djinn (often mistaken as demons)
• Elves ( 8 inch tall fair folk with sharp teeth)
• Goblins and hobgoblins (unseelie)
• Kelpies (described as medium sized people with dark green hair, webbed fingers, and shark teeth)
• Knockers (unseelie)
• Mermaids
• Nixies
• Nymphs
• Ogres (unseelie)
• Peris
• Pixies (moth sized faeries with “cute” faces and sharp teeth)
• Pucas (described as tall dark skinned folk with pointed ears)
• Satyrs (unseelie; half-billy goat, half-human creatures)
• Selkies
• Sprites
• Unicorns (seelie)
10. Notes
• Less is better
– Use key words or phrases and elaborate on them
while speaking
• Lists
– Use simple or bulleted lists
• Fonts
– Make sure the text is large enough to view from a
distance
11. Notes
• Slide design
– Select a design that suits your topic
• Clip art and pictures
– Use appropriate image size
– Use images that reinforce my text
– Use high-quality images
– Use a single image per slide
• Videos
– Limit the number of videos
– Check that the videos work before presenting
• Animations and sound effects
– Use same animation throughout
– Simple or subtle effects
– Only when necessary
– Use sound effects sparsely
• Slide transitions
– Use the same slide transition
– Choose a different transition only when needed for special emphasis
13. Edit the Presentation
Check spelling and grammar It is important to check the spelling and grammar on
each slide. You can select the Spelling option from the
Tools menu or press the F7 key. This will highlight most of
the spelling errors in red and the grammatical errors in
green. However, this tool is not 100 percent accurate and
can give wrong
suggestions, so you need to manually check
The text in your presentation. The best way to
find spelling or grammar mistakes is to proof read the
slides both from the computer monitor and from a
printed copy.
Check that the content is clear The points on the slide text must be self-explanatory. The
best way to ensure this is to add relevant pictures and
use precise wording for the bullet points.
Check for logical order The audience needs to see that there is a flow between
your slides or else they will soon lose interest. Make sure
that your presentation has a clear beginning, middle, and
end. Check that the points you make in each slide flow
logically from one to the next.
14. Read aloud Reading aloud helps you notice errors that you might
skim over when reading
silently
Read backwards Read your document backwards. Read the last sentence
first and work your
way back to the first sentence. This keeps you from
getting caught up in the content so you can focus on
proofreading tasks.
Edit a day or two after the first draft When you are working on the presentation, your mind is
filled with ideas and arguments. If you start editing now,
you may overlook logical errors. And you may not
see spelling and punctuation errors because you’ve
become used to seeing them.
By taking a break for a day or two, you will return to your
work with a fresh mind to catch logical errors and fresh
eyes to catch spelling and
punctuation errors
Make several passes Proofread your presentation several times, focusing on a
different aspect each time. For example, check for
spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors min one pass.
Check the content for accuracy and logical flow in
another pass. Check the formatting and effects in a third
pass
