IDS 403 Milestone Three Guidelines

Overview: For this milestone, due in Module Five, you will submit a draft of the Plan section of your presentation. In this section, you will create the visual facet of your final project presentation. Keep in mind that your voice will be the primary carrier of your message and that visuals play a supporting role. You want your voice and visuals to work together and not compete for attention, so you should minimize the number of words on each slide and maximize the use of visual elements like photographs, illustrations, and graphs. You will submit this milestone as a presentation draft in PowerPoint that will include visuals and speaker notes. Milestone Three provides you with an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your final project submission.

Prompt: In this milestone, you will start assembling your multimedia presentation. Create a multimedia presentation draft using visuals* to articulate your plan to address the issue you described in Milestone Two. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

III. Plan: For this part of the project, you will offer recommendations, a plan to improve the issue, and strategies for implementing your plan.

A. Make recommendations for how the current issue could be addressed in order to minimize its impact on the target population.

B. Explain how current technology could be used to address the chosen issue.

i. Is there new or updated technology that could be used to address an issue associated with older or outdated technology?

ii. Could the technology associated with the chosen issue be used in different ways to address the issue?

C. Imagine you are in charge of addressing your chosen issue. What challenges would you face when implementing your plan? How would you address those challenges? Support your answer with relevant research or diverse perspectives.

D. Explain the strengths of your plan and why it is likely it would be successful. Be sure to support your justification with relevant research.

PowerPoint: You are required to include a combination of text, visuals, and speaker notes in order to support your PowerPoint presentation. Use the Check File Compatibility With Earlier Versions and Are You Having Video or Audio Playback Issues? resources to help you check compatibility between versions of Office. Also, follow the instructions on the Microsoft Support page to compress your presentation as a zipped file. Upload the zipped file when submitting Milestone Three. Reducing the size of the presentation file by compressing it will make it easier for your instructor to download and grade your presentation.

*Note: The final presentation requires the use of both visuals and audio. In Milestone Four, you will practice adding audio to this draft.