I have often been reluctant to assign student teams to do presentations because I didn't want to allocate class time for it, and thereby reduce the amount of material covered in the course. Now technology makes it possible to assign student presentations without sacrificing any class time at all.
At the following web address, there is a simple 1.5 minute video that I give to students to teach them everything they need to know in order to add voice narration to PowerPoint slides (which is really quite easy):
I give them a limit of 5 minutes of narration & 5 slides (plus title slide). I also tell them to write an outline or script to plan what they will say before recording the narration, and to play it back before submitting it in order to make sure that it sounds the way they intended.
For sharing the presentations with classmates, there is a piece of free software that will convert the narrated PowerPoint into MP4 video format, which can then be uploaded to YouTube or other video-sharing web sites. This free software can be downloaded from:
If students view each others' presentations before coming to class, then they can use class time for Q&A (or not).
Cheers,
Rich
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Richard J. Makadok
Associate Professor
Goizueta Business School
Emory University
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Atlanta, GA 30322-2710
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