Secondary Transition Year

Digital Presentations

Design slides that explain, and give a four-minute talk with confidence.

  • 10 lessons
  • About 10 hours
  • Mapped to the NCCA curriculum

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What your school gets

10 lessons you teach from the board, with the same lesson open on each student's device

Every lesson is planned step by step and ready to teach, with 3 interactive activities across the course, including:

  • Step-by-Step Tutorial
  • and 2 more
Open a sample lesson: Plan a Talk Worth Hearing
Teacher Resource Book Digital Presentations

Teacher Resource Book

The whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson.

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Quizzes and assessments

A short quiz with every lesson.

Progress and results

See what each student has completed and how they did, lesson by lesson.

Student certificates

For portfolios, open days and reports home.

Curriculum mapping

Mapped outcome by outcome to the NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement (2025).

About this course

Students plan, design and give a four-minute talk with questions across ten 60-minute lessons, building one deck that grows each week: a storyboard with headline titles, slides designed with alignment and a style guide, pictures and diagrams with credited images, a story with a hook and a clear ending, purposeful animation, two timed rehearsals, accessible slides with live captions, and hidden backup slides for questions. Talk Day runs in groups of four, so every student presents in one period. Every step-by-step covers PowerPoint for the web and Google Slides, on Windows, Mac and Chromebook.

The course, module by module

10 lessons in 3 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Plan and Design 4 lessons · about 4 hours
  1. Storyboard Your Talk
  2. 1 Plan a Talk Worth Hearing Sample lesson Quiz
  3. Guiding the Eye
  4. 2 Design That Guides the Eye Quiz
  5. 3 A Look That Holds Together Quiz
  6. Pictures That Explain
  7. 4 Pictures That Explain Quiz
2 Tell It Well 3 lessons · about 3 hours
  1. Shape the Story
  2. 5 Shape the Story Quiz
  3. Movement and Rehearsal
  4. 6 Animation with a Purpose Quiz
  5. 7 Rehearse Like You Mean It Quiz
3 Deliver It 3 lessons · about 3 hours
  1. Slides Everyone Can Follow
  2. 8 Slides Everyone Can Follow Quiz
  3. Questions and Talk Day
  4. 9 Questions and the Unexpected Quiz
  5. 10 Talk Day Quiz

Curriculum mapping

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Curriculum Area
Outcomes
Personal Growth
P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 P.7 P.8 P.9 P.10 P.11
Being a Learner
B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4 B.5 B.6 B.7 B.8 B.9 B.10 B.11 B.12
Civic and Community Engagement
C.1 C.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9 C.10 C.11
Career Exploration
CE.1 CE.2 CE.3 CE.4 CE.5 CE.6 CE.7 CE.8

The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

What students will learn

Learning goals

  1. Plan a talk as a storyboard with one idea per slide and headline titles.
  2. Design consistent, readable slides using contrast, alignment, space and a style guide.
  3. Explain ideas with pictures, diagrams and purposeful animation.
  4. Rehearse with timing and feedback, and make slides accessible with live captions.
  5. Give a four-minute talk and handle questions with confidence.

Build a full TY year around Digital Presentations

This module is one of 10 Transition Year modules you can combine into a complete Year-Long TY Digital Skills Programme, shaped around your timetable and the students in front of you.

Run the same pathway for every student, or set different pathways for different groups. Students also get access to the modules they're not doing in class, which is ideal for the keen ones who finish early or want to explore further on their own time.

Prefer a deeper tech focus? Swap in Advanced Coding or Robotics and Automation. Each module is 10 to 15 lessons of 40-60 minutes, leaving room for school events, mid-terms and everything else TY throws at you.

Why TY coordinators choose it
One decision, a year's content
No more stitching resources together every term.
Flexible per class, per student
Run different pathways side by side.
Certificates after each module
Great for TY portfolios, open days and reports home.
Sets students up for Senior Cycle
Broad exposure so they choose subjects with confidence.
Sample Year Plan
ICT + Coding focus
  • Computer Skills
    Gets everyone on a level footing
  • Introduction to Coding
    Real, working projects from week one
  • Exploring Digital Media
    Video, design and storytelling
  • Exploring Artificial Intelligence
    The topic your students keep asking about
  • Enterprise and Business Basics
    A pitch-and-launch project to close out the year

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