Delivering effective oral presentations involves three components: what you say (verbal), how you say it with your voice (vocal), and everything the audience can see about you (visual). Verbally (and as a general rule), do not write down and memorize or read your full text, because then your presentation will sound like what it is: a recited written text. Instead, memorize the outline of your presentation — that is, a tree structure of main points and subpoints — and speak ex tempore, reinventing the words as you go along. As you do, you will occasionally need to think about what to say next and find the most appropriate words to say it. Instead of using filler words (um, er, you know, I mean, etc.), simply pause. If you say um, you get about half a second of thinking time and the audience is likely to notice the um and be irritated by it. If you keep silent, you can get up to two or three seconds of thinking time without the audience noticing anything. Even if attendees do notice th...
Project Goal You will create an original narrative in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure interactive story. Your story will be evaluated through the Choose your own adventure story rubric. Task During the 1980s a series of books called “Choose Your Own Adventure” entered libraries with a new concept of giving the reader the power of choice about how the story would turn out. These were popular with many students, and at most school libraries there was a waiting list to check these books out. As we move further into the 21st century, publishing companies are looking for ways to engage the digital generation in reading. Using what you know about the topic you are studying, design a digital choose-your-own-adventure story to engage readers at your school. Engage Take some time to explore a few “Choose Your Own Adventure” books and online hypermedia stories to get a better understanding of how these stories are structured. You must be familiar with the basic elements of a story:...