How do you make a Powerpoint presentation on the History and Government of US and Canada more interesting?
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One thing you want to do for sure is only use the slides for emphasis of main points. If you read from it or a piece of paper you will put people to sleep. Know your material and tell the story changing the cadence of your voice and looking at your audience. You have a most interesting topic - although it sounds rather broad. What is the relationship you are looking for between the topics you have mentioned? How are you going to hook them together. Find an anecdote if you can that makes the connection. Good luck.
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Hi, see if you can get some ideas from the masters.\n\nOnline Speech Bank\n\nIndex to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm\n\nhttp://www.speech-topics-help.com/good-persuasive-speech-topics.html\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm\n\nhttp://library.albany.edu/usered/dr/speech.html\n\nhttp://www.history.com/media.do\n\nhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/school_bell/social_studies/history/speeches/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Go to the National History Day website to get some ideas:\n\nhttp://www.nationalhistoryday.org\n\nRemember to keep the focus of your project narrow, i.e. don't try to do a project on the entire French Revolution, for example; focus one one aspect of your chosen subject which interests you.  My daughter learned that the hard way.
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Here's a few tutorials that might help you out:\n\nhttp://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html\n\nhttp://www.actden.com/pp/\n\nhttp://www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.htm\n\nplrr
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I'd start with a compelling quote from the Declaration of Independence.  I'd describe the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.  You might want to include some statistics from the Census Bureau and maybe figure out how many people living in the US are citizens.  The links below may get you started.\n-MM
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It depends on how teachers or students use it for a presentation. PowerPoint is a good way to control the focus of an audience at the presentor's own timing. It is also an advocator of being environmental friendly as it does not require any paper as handouts.\n\nHowever, PowerPoint can be a great distraction to the audience. If the background is too colourful, or there's too many animation planted in the slides, the audience will not be able to concentrate on the facts on the slide.\n\nConclusion, PowerPoint has its pros and cons in the realm of education. To make sure that it is helpful in any setting, the presentor has to make sure they know their audience and use the tools of PowerPoint to accomodate that knowledge.
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try microsoft office powerpoint,it's working for real.
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http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/powerpoint_music.htm
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Just put the information on a power point presentation and go to "slideshow" on the menu bar and click on "view show".\n\nIf you want ot you can also add music or sounds by going to "insert" on the menu bar and clicking on "movies and sounds"
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What's interesting to you may not be interesting to someone else.  So who is the speech going to be given to??  Think about the group you will be speaking to, then try to figure out what would be interesting to THEM (take into consideration things like their aprox. age group, their jobs, probably hobbies, etc.).  Good luck!
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sounds good...and you could work  the song "one world (not three)" by the police into yer presentation...good luck!
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either:\nwikipedia it  at http://en.wikipedia.org/Canada\n\nor go to a library. Libraries are nice.
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Well,...\n   First, write down the important topics if you see or hear one. the write down the MAIN and IMPORTANT details. Don't write down details that you think are not important!\nExample:\n   Inventions in the 1800's\n      Blue Jeans \n       (Inventors name here)\n         (Date invented here)\n      The Washing Machine\n        (Inventors name name here)\n          1858  \n\nYou get the picture! \n  If you still want more info,...\n    Go to Barn and nobles and get a book about taking notes or "How to survive school!", or something like that! \n\n   GOOD LUCK!
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How about a powerpoint presentation? You can make it big, add pictures and also comments. It is also something that you can keep and make changes to if necessary.
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You can download free powerpoint presentation slides (backgrounds) with a variety of themes.\n\nGo under templates.
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Speaking from personal experience as someone who regularly both gives powerpoint presentations and is on the recieving end of a lot as well my main tips can be summarised like this;\nAvoid "Death by Powerpoint" where every single thing you are oing to say has a slide\nKeep to bullet points\nUse custom animation sparingly- while it is ok to have something spin to emphasise it, don't over do it\nMake sure your points don't show up until you are ready for them- otherwise people will just read the slide and be away ahead of you.\nUse powerpoint as an aid, not the focus of your presentation- basically plan with the idea in mind that if technological problems raise their head, you should still be able to do your presentation without it\nPrint out copies of slideshow for the audience, but think about when to give them out- they may want them to write notes beside when you ae talking, but they can also be a distraction with people reading on ahead again and not listen to what you say\nKeep the slides easy to read and with as little information as possible on them-again to emphasise Powerpoint is an aid to the presentation, not the presentation itself.\nGood luck
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go to Microsoft POWERPOINT.......................