You already have ways to shape writing and data on a page. Today you build the slides that sit under a spoken presentation of your Student Project.
The job of a slide is to help the audience follow you, not to say the whole thing for you. By the end of this lesson you will have a short, clean deck (that means your set of slides) with speaker notes and a credits slide, saved the class way.
An audience cannot read a dense slide and listen to you at the same time. Keep these four rules:
- One idea per slide, with a short heading
- A few words or one image, not a script
- Speaker notes hold what you plan to say; the audience never sees them
- A credits slide at the end lists what you borrowed
You will build a short practice deck this way, then apply the same rules to your Student Project slides if you have them.
Follow the walkthrough on your device in PowerPoint or Google Slides. Track only the path for your app (each step labels both). You need your school Microsoft or Google sign-in.
Build a short practice deck of three slides: a title slide, one idea slide, and a credits slide. Add speaker notes, then run the presenter-view check so you can see your notes while the audience would only see the slide.
Save the deck the class way when you finish.
If you already have Student Project material, switch to that deck now and apply the same rules. If not, finish and cut-test the practice deck you just built.
- One idea per slide, short headings, few words or one image
- Speaker notes hold what you will say
- A credits slide present (from your research log, or practice sources if this is still practice)
- Cut every slide that does not earn its place: if you deleted it, would the talk still make sense?
A short deck, notes on content slides, credits slide present, and the file saved the class way. If you only finish the practice deck in class, transfer the same rules to your Student Project slides for homework.
Pull back together. A slide deck is not the presentation. You are. The slides give the audience landmarks; the speaker notes keep your full wording off the screen so people can listen.
The cut test matters: every slide should earn its place, and the credits slide is part of presenting your work honestly, not an optional extra at the end.
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