Multimedia in Social Studies

Gathering Multimedia Resources

Creating a Presentation

Gathering Multimedia Resources

You are going to work with a partner to create a dynamic multimedia PowerPoint presentation. After you decide what kind of project you want to do, you need to do some leg work to gather the media components for the presentation. Follow the directions in the categories below to gather your resources.

Portfolio Activity #2A - Multimedia Resources
On the Multimedia web page of your Digital Portfolio, post the links to the audio, video and graphic files that you find online (rather than posting the full files, which takes up a lot of space).

Audio Files
Use a Boolean search engine such as Altavista, Webcrawler or Dogpile to search for music clips and speeches that you can integrate into a PowerPoint presentation. Post links to at least two audio files you plan to use in your presentation.

Video Files
Use a Boolean search engine such as Altavista, Webcrawler or Dogpile to search for video clips that could be integrated into a PowerPoint presentation (be results will come from using clips that are either MPEG or Quicktime formats).
Alternately, if you cannot find video clips online, use a digital video camera to record a brief speech or reenactment of an appropriate nature.
Use iMovie to edit the clip for use in your PowerPoint presentation.

Graphics
Use a Boolean search engine such as Altavista, Webcrawler or Dogpile to search for photographs, maps or pictures which you can incorporate into your digital archive.
Alternative #1 - you can scan in appropriate pictures if you have them available.
Alternative #2 – Use a digital camera to take pictures of an appropriate nature for your presentation.
Use Photoshop Elements or Fireworks to edit the graphics so that they are not larger than 100 kbs.
Post at least three pictures on your Multimedia web page.

Animation
Use a Boolean search engine such as Altavista, Google or Yahoo to search for animated GIFs that you can use in your presentation.
Post links too two animated GIFs on your Multimedia web page.

Finding Information
Use a Boolean search engine such as Altavista, Webcrawler or Dogpile to search for websites which contain information on the topic of your presentation.
Post links to at least five reputable websites, containing information you plan to use in your PowerPoint presentation, on the Multimedia web page of your Digital Portfolio.

Now you are ready to create the Presentation.