E-Venture/Lesson 4: History of Theatre PowerPoint Googledocs

E-Venture 4:

 In Introduction to the Arts course, we study the history of Theatre.  Last year, I assigned PowerPoint as the medium for the research and subsequent presentation.  Students complained that they could not meet with their group after class, or they did not own Microsoft Office.
  This year I found a fair solution:  Each of my students created gmail accounts, and I invited them to join a PowerPoint document. While the students researched, they each created a google word document to save their research, the content of the presentation. The students freely worked on their projects whenever they could.  The benefits prevailed:

• open access to the presentation anywhere and at anytime,
•  monitor the edits and contributions of all students, and
• view presentations from any computer without a flash drive.

Humorous Advice I offered from "How Not to Give a PowerPoint Presentation":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORxFwBR4smE

Example Presentations:
Greek History-
 https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AWRLKePo6Qx2ZGM1MjdiY2tfNTFmZHA0azNoaw&hl=en
Kabuki History-
 https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AWRLKePo6Qx2ZGM1MjdiY2tfMzdka2JuOGRobg&hl=en
Shakespearean History-
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AWRLKePo6Qx2ZGM1MjdiY2tfMjZobnN3dDVjMg&hl=en