St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley: Gateway to Technology: An integrated study of Mathematics, English, Reading and Engineering/Tech
PROJECT #1 INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY CAREERS
PROJECT 1—TEAM CAREER POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Research three careers from the Engineering or Technology listings at Florissant Valley. These careers should be those that your team thinks will be vital ones in the 21st century. You may use career magazines, library materials, internet resources, field research, college brochures, whatever you wish. As a team present your findings in a short PowerPoint presentation that would be interesting to college or high school students (keep under 15 slides or so). Make sure that each person in the team has a part in the presentation. Look at these careers (perhaps an engineer, a technician and a technologist) from various perspectives. Some ideas are listed below.
Importance for future industry, business, medicine, etc.; trade unions/professional affiliations
Education/training required
Demand in the job market
Salary and benefits
Duties, responsibilities, etc.; job hours
SOME CAREER LINKS
America's Career Kit http://www.acinet.org
This is a Department of Labor sponsored web page for working people. It contains information from every state in the US, including Missouri.
FV Career Counseling http://www.stlcc.edu/fv/counseling/resources.html
This site has numerous career links
Department of Engineering and Technology at Florissant Valley http://www.stlcc.edu/fv/engtech
This site has much information about the career choices at FV.
Creating a PowerPoint Presentation
This lesson is designed to help you create an oral presentation using a powerful but easy-to-use feature of the Microsoft PowerPoint application. You can use an already drafted outline, put it into slides, overhead transparencies, or even a webpage in order to present your ideas to an audience. PowerPoint allows text, sound, clip art, animation, and movies to be integrated into a presentation.
Make a simple outline in Microsoft Word first. Organize the outline the way you want to present your material later in PowerPoint.
Create the presentation:
Open PowerPoint from the Office Menu.
When the application opens, select AutoContent Wizard from the “Create a new presentation using:” dialog box. Click OK.
When the next window opens, from the left side options, select the first square, “Presentation type.” On the right side of the window you have a number of choices for types. Select one.
Go to the next square, “Output options, “ and unless you are making a webpage presentation, click the first choice, “Presentations, etc.”
Select the next square, “Presentation style,” and click on the type of presentation you want to make, on-screen or overhead transparencies. Also you can click an option to make handouts for your audience.
At the last square, “Presentation options, “you can type in the title of your presentation, your name and any other information you want to include in your presentation. Click the Finish button.
An outline of the presentation format will display. Now you can add your content.
For inserting your outline into the preformatted presentation:
From the Insert menu, select Slides from Outline. When the dialog box opens, select your file named “outline.doc” or “outline.” Look in Drive A if you do not readily see your file listed.
Your outline content will fill into the presentation format. You can view the presentation in several ways besides the outline. On the horizontal scroll bar in the lower left-hand corner of the window are several view buttons: “Slide View,” “Slide Sorter View,” “Notes Page View,” and “Slide Show View.”
To change the order of the slides or pages, you can drag & drop or delete them in the “Slide Sorter View.” To rearrange a page, do so just as you would in Word.
You can use the menu at the top of the PowerPoint window to add clip art, sounds (even your own voice-overs), animation graphics, or even movie clips to enhance your presentation.
Save your file as “slideshw.ppt” or “slideshow.”
EVALUATION (5 C’s—Clear, Coherent, Complete, Concise, and Correct):
1. Clear and Concise (understandable, not wordy) 20%
2. Cohesive (organized and unified) 15%
3. Competent and complete (content) 50%
4. Correct standard English 15%
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St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley: Gateway to Technology: An integrated study of Mathematics, English, Reading and Engineering/Tech
CRITERIA FOR TEAM CAREER EXPLORATION POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (student designed fall ‘05):
1 = Weak 2 = Moderately Weak 3 = Average 4 = Moderately Strong 5 = Strong
Career Exploration Problem:
- The team determined the problem and found information needed to meet the requirements of the assignment.
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- Content contains accurate and appropriate information
1 2 3 4 5
- Information is presented clearly enough for audience to understand.
1 2 3 4 5
- Teamwork is evident with individual work combined effectively.
1 2 3 4 5
- Career information is specialized for each team member's preferences
1 2 3 4 5
Presentation:
- Thesis statement gives main idea at beginning of presentation.
1 2 3 4 5
- Presentation is organized with not too much information or too little on each slide and in overall project.
1 2 3 4 5
- Information is presented in various visual ways like lists and tables, in addition to sentences and short paragraphs.
1 2 3 4 5
- Specific material borrowed from outside sources is documented.
1 2 3 4 5
- Presentation uses standard English grammar, mechanics, spelling, and sentence structure.
1 2 3 4 5
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