Meet the Mahara Family

This is the Mahara family from Canada. They live in Vancouver and are planning to come to Hong Kong for one week for a family holiday.
• The family ranges in age from Grandfather, who is 62, to the youngest, Rachel, who is 3 years old.
• This will be the Mahara family’s first visit to Hong Kong and they are looking forward to seeing all of the famous sights and to taking part in fun activities that the whole family can enjoy.
• The Mahara family all speak English and Japanese

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Over the next three lessons you are going to learn how to make an effective presentation to the rest of the class, based on the topic of
“Welcome to Hong Kong”
You have been asked to prepare a presentation for the Mahara family to help them make the most of their time in Hong Kong. It is your job to tell them about what you think are the best places to see and things to do to help them find out about the real Hong Kong. They will have time to visit 5 different places.
Your presentation is to be aimed at the whole Mahara family. This means you have to make your presentation understandable by a wide range of ages and still hold their attention.

Homework 1

Collect information about five places worth of visiting in and around Hong Kong. Use website, books, and travel journals, you must keep a bibliography of the information that you have used along with where you have collected you images from, cite either the website, book or if its a picture you have taken, then cite yourself as the photography.

Available Photos

The following slide show has some photos that you are can use in your presentation.
Year 7 Ict
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Planning

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Homework 2

Write a script for your voice over for your presentation, use the script/speakers note feature of your software for making your notes. You will be recording your voice during the next lesson.

Task: Adding sound / narration



Task: Adding YouTube videos



To see all of the little video watch it below:

Task: Autoplay & Timings

Presentations need to be set to play automatically

PowerPoint Tips

Here is a slide show to help you using Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint Tutorial
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Google Presentations Tips

Here is a link that will get you started with Google Presentations:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=15116

Presentation Tips

And finally here's a slide show to show you how to present your presentations using PowerPoint in front of an audience:
Presentation Tips
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Extension Tasks

1. Try the following Hangman quiz by clicking on the button:
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2. Now that you have added sound, and your slideshow is automated to run throuhg by itself, you are now going to add two more slides:
  • The first slide will include some hyperlinks to at least two web resources you may have used for you research or images.
  • The second slide will a video from YouTube. You will select an appropriate YouTube video about Hong Kong
To help you here is a link to some video tutorials: http://www.teach-ict.net/software/ppt/powerpoint.htm

Students Work

When your work is finished you will make a presentation to the whole class and your PowerPoint will be added to this site.
Well Done 7.8 (Nov 2009) and 7.7 (Jan 2010). Please be patient, presentations take a little while to load. Thank you.





















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Meet the Mahara Family | Homework 1 | Available Photos | Planning | Homework 2 | Task: Adding sound / narration | Task: Adding YouTube videos | Task: Autoplay & Timings | | PowerPoint Tips | Google Presentations Tips | | Presentation Tips | Extension Tasks | Students Work