GoogleDocs Presentation Rubric and Deadlines
Your GoogleDocs presentation is now underway! I have attached the rubric to the bottom of this message and have gone over it in class. Your due dates for Ms. Pidot are as follows:
Wed. June 3: 5 Essential Questions Due (you might want to put them on your slides or create a slide for organization in your presentation)
Wed. June 10: Completed research and presentation work
Thurs June 11: coordination with team
Friday June 12: presentations to class.
Be sure to take a look at the “How not to do a presentation” slideshow in your GoogleDocs! Make sure YOUR presentation doesn’t look like that one!
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Google Docs
Because of the problems that will arise sharing computers for the Ancient Civilizations project, we are going to try out GoogleDocs- a way to share presentations with your team members. To log into Google Docs, click on this link
Google Docs
Your username is hdms6day1@yahoo.com
Your password is hdstudent
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Type to Learn Rubric
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Type to Learn Rubric