1) Time...Beta presentations are coming April 5 and final presentations happen starting April 21. Just a few Multimedia Capstone classes away, and a few weeks away to the real deal!! Time will not go slower, you must work efficiently and effectively to get it done.
2) Creating an interesting presentation:
* KNOW YOUR SUBJECT...you are the expert.
* SHOW YOUR RESEARCH in your website/video/print/audio.
* GO FOR THE SIZZLE!! Make it visually appealing interesting and easy to access
o visuals: photos, videos, charts, colors, patterns, movement
o Functionality: layout, links/buttons (make sure they work)
3) Be a Good Presenter
* Enthusiasm and Energy!!!!
* Dress well, stand straight, look them straight in the eye and speak loudly with authority. Smile when appropriate :o)
* Hook - the audience with your opening statement (a shocking fact, or anecdote)
* Book - Give them information that substantiates your thesis.
* Took - Give them something to take home and do or think about.
4) Promoting your website and/or video:
* On YouTube, use the describing Meta Tags to help people locate your video with search engines and within the youtube site.
* On your websites, using HTML allows search engines like Google to place you in their rankings.
When your site is ready:
* Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
* Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
* Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.
Design and content guidelines from Google's Webmaster Central
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* Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
* Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
* Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
* Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
* Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images. If you must use images for textual content, consider using the "ALT" attribute to include a few words of descriptive text.
* Make sure that your title elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
Not so good: Alt is blank
Better: Alt give you the subject
Best: Alt describes the image
* Check for broken links and correct HTML.
* Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).
* Use good quality images...not blurry.
* Not all users scroll to the bottom of a page, so consider putting your images high up on the page where it can be immediately seen.
