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Let Me Introduce Myself

Bob Dylan serves as the musical inspiration

for this introductory assignment. What’s the

topic? YOU. Making use of artifacts (pictures, mementos, memories, stories, writings, etc) you get to make a short PowerPoint presentation that gives the greatest hits of your life.


Why you as the first topic? That’s easy to explain.

The story of the U.S. is the story of US, and it begins with you. You have to find yourself in the story this year and to do that you have to retrace the 15-17 year journey you have

been on.


Let’s try a two-pronged attack. First, start

collecting the artifacts of your life. The

sorting will come later.


Second, start talking to people about YOU.

It is easiest to ask questions and record their

answers. You can tape record them, write

some of their answers down, or BEST OF

ALL, videotape them.


We are eventually going to be making films

this year…so videotaping them would be

ideal!

Let Me Introduce MyselfWhat kind of questions? Here are some examples:

• Where was I born? • Did you know what my name would be immediately?• When did I come home from the hospital? What was I wearing?• How was my room decorated?• What was my favorite food? (baby and toddler)• When did I start walking?• When did I start talking?• What was my favorite toy?• How long did I sleep in a crib?• What were my first words?• When did I get my 1st tooth?• Who were my playmates?• Did I go to preschool?• Did we move or stay in the same house?• What do {parents} remember about my first day of school? What do you

remember about it?


From this point on you take over……….your memories about growing up from five to

yourcurrent age. Think about friends, vacations, interests, changes in your life….all the stuff that makes you who you are.


Now comes the hard part. You have to sift and sort and see what story emerges. That’s what historians do; they distill a mass of facts into a coherent narrative that reflects their own personal interpretation. It can be done using images words or even a combination of the two. Our goal this year is to study both forms, what is unique to each medium and then explore them in tandem.


And the process starts with this assignment.


Sometimes the goal is the process itself and

sometimes the goal is the end product. In this case we are more interested in the process, but there is a finished product.

What is that finished product?


A roughly 3 minute (3:15) PowerPoint slide

show that tells the story you want to tell

about you and the first 15-17 years of your

life.


PowerPoint is easy to use and is loaded on all Upper School computers and probably most of our home computers. Pictures that are digital are easy to load, non-digitals have to be scanned (we have scanners at school).


Bob Dylan’s, “The Times They Are A Changin” is the musical backdrop for

all of the presentations and once you have

your slides produced you should set the

timing for a 3:15 minute presentation.


For those that have not used PowerPoint

before I will provide a brief introductory

lesson, but the easiest way to learn it is to

use it!


Specifications:• A title• Dark backgrounds and white text• A minimum of ‘bells and whistles”

(don’t overdo the graphics and animation)

• About 20-25 slides• A clear theme that is distinguishable


So have at it and good luck!

Questions? Come and see me.

Due date: In class


If you are a novice with PowerPoint visit

this site for a tutorial

http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html

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