Assignment

**AVID College Week Project** **8th Grader**

__Objective:__  College Week give students time to explore different colleges and see the preparation process to go to college. Students are require to research one college of their choice and present their research to class. This is an individual project. Your presentation time frame is a limit of 10 minutes and must be in a form of Microsoft PowerPoint or an online presentation tool. Have fun with this project and be creative. We will spend two days in the computer lab and two class period to work on the project.

__Require information that must be include in presentation:__ - Name of College/University - Location - Tuition - Size of the college - Why you choose this college or university - At least 5 fun facts

__Integrated Technology Participation__ - A wikispaces will be set up for this class project. Please access this site to interact with your classmates on what college you have decided to research. At least 5 posting plus reply are required.

__Creative and Free Presentation Software Online:__ - Jing- your presentation can be in a form of a video capture through Jing. Jing is also useful to capture images. - Prezi- a free presentation software easy to manage online. If you are strongly interest in using Prezi and might need some help, feel free to ask any tutors for help. - Wordle- a fun and creative software to present information/images - Procast- your research can be presented through a procast

Due Date: May 13, 2010 Be prepare to come in with your presentation ready to go because your presentation will be base on a random name drawing.