Use of graphic organizers are key to the success of a multimedia project, because students must become aware that they are NOT writing a series of paragraphs. They will be presenting a series of main ideas, facts, or short descriptions. The presentation will be a series of charts, and student must have a good idea of how their topic is to be broken up. Bibliographies should also be complete before beginning the project. Students should have all research and graphic organizers complete before beginning Power Point, or any other multimedia software, because they will not have a good plan for the total presentation.
Teachers can review the drafts of the text in hand written form or typed, printed format.
Power Point allows the easy printing of text only for teacher review. Types of multimedia projects. Teachers should decide which type of presentation will apply, or if the students will make this choice. With this type, slides advance automatically and all special effects play automatically. Manually advanced presentations with linear progression.