Term Assignment: Power Point Lecture Creation Guide

Topic Selection Process

For your term assignment, you will be tasked with creating a Power Point lecture for one of 8 different topics. Since there are 8 different lecture topics available to choose from, each topic will be limited to a maximum of 6 people (otherwise we'll have 40 lectures on cocaine). Topics will be 'assigned' on a first come, first-served basis. In other words, you will choose the topic that you would most like to lecture about, however, if that topic is full (i.e. 6 people have already chosen it), you will have to make a second (or possibly third) choice.

During the first week, you will go to the discussion tab on the Canvas page for this course. Once you have selected discussions, you will see a number of discussions have already been created. You will select “Lecture Topic Selection”. After you have selected it, a discussion page will open, and you will see instructions posted. Please select one of the 8 possible topics by clicking on the link for that topic.This will redirect you to a different page. Once there, please post your name as a reply to the post.Once six people have done this, the topic will be unavailable to others.

After you have selected your topic, you can begin working on your assignment at any time. Your task is to use the chapter in the textbook (that corresponds to your topic) to create a Power Point lecture. Imagine you are teaching this course, what aspects of the chapter do you think are interesting and are important to highlight while lecturing to a group of students?

Things to include:
- Epidemiology, classification of the substance, key substances within the group
- The addiction process, three points of abuse potential (See the document posted in the Course Resources section on the Modules page), short and long-term effects.
- The treatment process, (e.g. what intervention strategies work? What about relapse/recovery?)

Formatting
- No more than 15 slides, no fewer than 10 slides (make sure to include a title slide that has your name on it).
- Do not cram the slides full of text. Think about what you’d like if you were a student receiving this lecture. Would you want paragraphs of text in 12-point font? Font should be easy to read, professional (e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Gill Sans), and 24 pt minimum.
- Make use of images, make use of interesting features that make your lecture more visually appealing, have fun with this...let your creative juices flow!
Once you have created your Power Point, this will act as your outline for the second step...narration.
- Now you have your Power Point lecture ready to go, (no more than 15 slides, no fewer than 10 slides), so, now you’re going to tell us about it. Power Point has the option to record a narration to complement your presentation and that’s what you’ll do.
- In Power Point, from the main menu bar, you are going to select “Slide Show”
- This will open up a Slide Show toolbar. (Play from Start, Play from current slide, etc.)
- Select “Record Slide Show”. For different versions of Power Point, this may differ slightly so don’t panic if yours is not exactly as mine...just play around with it.
- This should open up a new window where you can speak out loud and Power Point will capture it. You can play around with this feature until you’re a pro!
- So, once you’ve got your slides all ready to go, you’re going to add the lecture by adding the narration. Imagine yourself giving a lecture to the class. Explain the material on your slide, but don’t read it verbatim. Because you’ll be adding the narration, this means you can cut down on the text you’ve got on each slide. Keep the entire thing to about 20 minutes.