Using What You've Learned: Creating a Presentation

You will use the three pictures that you have found in a PowerPoint presentation that you will create. You will also have to explain to the class what you have learned about your neighborhood in the 70's, or earlier (you may choose any historical information, as long as it is from before 1980).

Read the material that you find on web sites that contain the pictures. Look further, using google's regular web search engine, to find more information about your exact neighborhood 40, 50, 60, etc. years ago. When you find something you like, bookmark the page and read it carefully. Copy the section that you want to use into the box on the form, and then, next to it, write the same information using your own words. This may be tricky, but you must do it. Copying words directly from someone else is plagiarism. If will get your work disqualified in any arena: work or academia.

In your presentation you'll need to include material from appropriate websites. What have you learned about your neighborhood based on what you've read? Use the Web Site Paraphrase Form to record those passages that are relevant and describe what you've learned in your own words. Once you've put the information on the form you can put it into your PowerPoint slides. You'll need a "Web Site Paraphrase Form" for each piece of information you use. Although you must put your own words into your PowerPoint slides, you must always give credit as to where you got the information.