Gayla and all--

Wow!! Gayla, you did a wonderful job. Thanks you all your hard work.
It is so neat to see the finished product.
I hope that you all will be attending the summer institute. I'm really
looking forward to meeting everyone.
Toni G.

All slides are in!

All slides are in show and copy sent to all group memebers through VCSU. Kudos to you all! I will be hitting send Friday morning at 8am unless there has been notification of changes to be made before then. contact me on my phone or work or sendit before then and just give me a slide number/description and change to be made. As long as I get the all ok from you all. Music is now off and Maria and Darlene are sending me some more references. Really maria after looking at yours I think it is ok because you listed them all on your slides. Thanks Darlene for the introductory slides!

Maria, I do not have yours yet, I am having trouble getting into outlook web with my credential manager... Will try to figure it out- maybe you posted it there. Please send to my sendit if you can. gayla.schill@sendit.nodak.edu I am sure you sent it there I just can't get back into it tonight! I probably just have to restart my computer or something.

I would like to have a volunteer to edit and check over the slides/make any changes before final send off! I can pump Maria's in at the end. First to volunteer gets it and can send it back to me, I will save the sent back one as a final copy put Maria's slides in and send it off... I have sent another copy to all group members with the last two submissions I recieved. Another option would be to send in alphabetical order to everyone making Jim the one responsible to sending me the final copy? I am maybe making this more complicated, I just want eveyone to have the chance to make any changes, we are all getting a grade for this and should all take an active role in the final product! Please feel free to make changes that you think makes the slide show easier to read or find missing periods.

Darlene, I added those slides of yours, can you please put any needed sources from those on your reference slide. Thanks for those slides!

garphics/music/etc

personally, I have always been an advocate of the adage "Keep it simple". I think lots of great presentations have been goofed up because somebody thought 20 different transitions, animated clip art, and music would "spice things up a bit" and they wound up making the presentation a mess.
Truthfully Gayla, you have done such a good job up to now I will trust you on whatever you do, but my opinion is to keep it simple, clear, and professional

Just my opinion

Does anyone what graphics/transitions/music?

What are your feelings?
Keep it simple?
Just some animations/graphics on slides that have room?
Do you know of any music clips that go with a "library" theme? If so send it to me.
Transitions and Exit/Entrace motions, I think will slow it down and make things harder for the instructors to grade- that is the only feeling I have.

Toni

I have not checked my VCSU Mail in awhile. I am trying to keep all project stuff in my sendit box so I don't accidently delete something while reading list-serv stuff! please send your slides to gayla.schill@sendit.nodak.edu I can go into VCSU to get yours-don't worry if that's how you sent them. However, if you did send them via sendit I didn't get them in there...

Gayla,
It really looks good. Can you please get in touch with me and let me know if you got my slides.
I emailed them on Thursday. I sent them to myself so I was confident they went through.
Toni G.

a round of applause for Gayla, please...

I just looked at what you have done up to now and it looks GREAT!! Very good job!
I like the names and the bottom of each slide and the way the credits scroll at the end. The template you're using is eyecatching yet very clear.
I think we all owe Gayla a word of thanks. What a great job!

Project so far in your VCSU mail-

I have 3 people done including myself... I have two slides I need to spiff up yet of my own that are in the right place in the show. I have come up with a plan to make changes for now below and in the email unless someone has another idea?

So far this is what I have

Still a work in progress- If you are going to send me changes- either highlight it in red and an explain what should be done in red somewhere for now- and send the individual slide to me one at a time so I don't duplicate something. If it is your own slide you want to change you may change it and send them one or two at a time. It is now over 150 kb and can't post it to either scholastic or to blog. I am hoping there will not be a problem sending in the drop box- I don't think there will be. I have 2 others besides myself that have turned them in.

I should be here most of Sunday until 5 and again after 8 or 9 pm to help out in anyway I can.

I have a great start on this and on Sunday/eves. at the beginning part of this week I will put this together the rest. I have kindergarten celebration (graduation) ceremony this week as well as heading up track and field day/starting Title I testing... this week is looking very crazy- don't worry though- I am used to crazy!

I think names on slides is a great idea. If you have already sent you slides- don't re-send. I will just add it. I think we should site sources on the slide and then each have a reference slide (alphabetically listed) at the end with the credits- This way we are covered on both ends... What do you guys think? Blank slides are fine don't stress! As soon as I receive all of the slides and get as many bugs out as I can I will try to get it available for viewing for all. Best way to do this is probably through e-mail unless anyone else knows a better way to make necessary or suggested changes?

My slide format

This is what I did with each of my slides. Look alright?

Names on slides

I also made a little text box in the lower right hand corner with my name in it. Is this something we should do in order that anyone looking at our presentation knows who made that particular slide right away, rather than having to check a slide at the end?

Citing sources

Proper way to cite an email source according to the OWL at Purdue website:

No personal communication is included in your reference list; instead, parenthetically cite the communicators name, the fact that it was personal communication, and the date of the communication in your main text only.

(E. Robbins, personal communication, January 4, 2001).

A. P. Smith also claimed that many of her students had difficulties with APA style (personal communication, November 3, 2002).

Now, if I do that each and every time, my info wouldn't fit on my slide. What I did was after each answer, I put the name in parentheses. Would it work to do that and then just cite the sources on reference page? Or should we do it the proper way the first time we introduce our interviewee, and then just put their name in parentheses every time after that???

Gads, I hate citing sources...why can't they keep it simple??? 8-)

It's not a problem....

....in fact, it may be easiest to send it with no background/format because Gayla can apply the background to every single slide in the presentation once it's all together. It's actually pretty easy if you know what to do.

Send it to her with blank white backgrounds. She will be able to do the rest.

Maria~

Don't panic. Just send it to Gayla and she can do the background. The "Prefab" theme is downloadable from the Microsoft Website. If you can find it, great, if not, no worries. ;-)

Stacey

URGENT--NEED ANSWER

can't fine "prefab" template anywhere...don't want to spend more time on it...can I do mine without a design layout and submit it that way or can someone direct me towards the template guide....I am starting to freak out.

please e-mail me at sendit--maria.nenow@sendit.nodak.edu