Presentation Assignment and Rubric

The purpose of this exercise is to help you with your planning for technology-infused assignments. For this exercise, you are to assume the role of a classroom teacher designing an activity that makes use of PowerPoint to present information on a given topic or concept.

1)      Begin by stating your objective: “Using PowerPoint, students will present …”

What topic should you choose? Actually, just about any grade and content appropriate topic will be fine for a presentation.

2)      Set your parameters for the presentation:

“The presentation must be ___ slides or ___ minutes in length. You will be required to have ___ points per page (or conversely, no more than ___ points per page).”

“The presentation must use a different transition for each slide …” or  “The presentation must use a consistent transition and build for each slide…”

“The presentation must have ___ of visuals (specify clipart, charts, photos, diagrams, etc) that illustrate the concept.

3)      Create a rubric with a scale of at least 3 (for example: excellent, satisfactory, unsatisfactory) that measures at least 4 aspects of your students’ presentations. Your rubric will look something like this:

Remember, the table cell for each respective score will articulate what standards have to be met (or, conversely, what standards were not met) to achieve that score.

How you will be scored - the rubric for this assignment: