Step 9: Share your answer to your question with a presentation

The purpose of a deep dive is to understand a topic deeply through reading and synthesizing evidence and to then use that knowledge to answer a question, make a decision or recommendation, or as the basis of an action plan. In this class, your deep dive ends with you showcasing your question, answer, and work. You become the group’s specialist on the topic, with knowledge that others do not have but may well need to know.

You will explain your question and deep dive with a presentation geared towards college students and faculty who want to know more about the topic.

Your presentation should be you, talking to your audience (college students and faculty) in a conversational tone. You’ll want to make sure you:

• Talk to your audience (not read from the slides)
• Use a slideshow that has main points to keep yourself and your audience on track
• Present your question and 3 main ideas related to the questions
• The answer to your question

Steps

1. Create your presentation.  Commonly used applications for this are Google Slides, Apple Keynote, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
2. Once you have it ready, practice presenting it a few times without recording. Use this as a chance to revise! Also, use the speaker notes feature to guide you through what to say on each slide.
3. When you have the presentation ready, record it with your narration using one of the options below (or others you know about).

Here are some resources on how to create a narrated presentation.

• PowerPoint:  Microsoft resource on recording a presentation *This requires you to work on your own computer (not the web version of Microsoft 365)
• Keynote: Apple’s guide: Record audio in Keynote on Mac

You can also record any presentation using other websites/apps/software including:

• Zoom:  You can start a Zoom meeting with just you and then let yourself share the screen with your slides. Then turn on “record” while you do the presentation. OU.edu page on recording with Zoom
• Loom: You can record a short video, and store and share it from the web Loom website
• ScreenPal: You can record a short video, and save it to your computer or upload it to an account like YouTube ScreenPal

There are a variety of other apps for this in the App Store or Google Play. You can record however it works for you as long as the audience can see: your slides, your video, and hear you speak.

Note on Google Slides: Google Slides are more complicated to record because there is no built-in method.  However, various ways to do this are explained on the web.

**Video files may be too big for Brightspace, most email and online sites. If you cannot upload to Brightspace because of size, upload the file to Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive, YouTube, or any other storage area. Be sure to set sharing so that anyone with the link can view the video and then submit the link on Brightspace in the assignment area.