CSIT 120 Term Project

Below is a list of immigrants admitted in 2005 and listed by top 20 countries of birth.
You will be assigned a country from this list by your instructor.

1. Mexico

161,445

14.4%

84,681

7.5

69,967

6.2

4. Philippines

60,748

5.4

5. Cuba

36,261

3.2

6. Vietnam

32,784

2.9

7. Dominican Republic

27,504

2.5%

8. Korea

26,562

2.4

9. Colombia

25,571

2.3

10. Ukraine

22,761

2.0

11. Canada

21,878

1.9

12. El Salvador

21,359

1.9

13. United Kingdom

19,800

1.8

14. Jamaica

18,346

1.6

15. Russia

18,083

1.6

16. Guatemala

16,825

1.5

17. Brazil

16,664

1.5

18. Peru

15,676

1.4

19. Poland

15,352

1.4

20. Pakistan

14,926

1.3

395,180

35.2

1,122,373

100.0

2. India
3. China, People's Republic

Other
All countries

Other countries Iran, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, Guatemala, Ghana

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Part 1: 50 Points
Use the Internet to gather the required information listed below.
You must use at least 3 electronic resources. See Suggested Internet Information Resources
below. Suggestions: Global Road Warrior, Current event website, all picture websites, 1
additional CREDIBLE source
Create a PowerPoint presentation as outlined below.
1. Be creative in your presentation and incorporate the use of color and images.
2. Remove grammatical and spelling errors.
3. Present a good balance between pictures and words
4. Use skills as outlined below
Here is a link to a 40-50 minute tutorial that will get you started on creating your first
presentation:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/create-your-first-presentation-RZ010186615.aspx

FACTS
Title Slide
1. Name of Country
Slide 2
1. Location and map
2. Capital
3. Flag
Slide 3
4. Population
5. Currency
6. Primary language spoken
7. Primary religion
Slide 4
8. Holidays 2 main
9. National sport
Slide 5
10. Unemployment rate
11. Note on state of economy
Slide 6
12. Government type
13. Name of leader
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14. Dress people wear
15. Music that youth are listening to
Slide 8
16. Popular food
Slide 9
17. Tourism top 3 attractions
Slide 10
18. Greetings& Courtesies
19. Time & punctuality
20. Gift giving
Slide 11
21. Superstitions & folklore list 2
Slide 12
22. Stereotypes list 2
Slide 13
23. Current events (optional)

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PowerPoint Skills
Apply a theme to all slides
Set transitions between each slide (how slide enters/exits)
Footer on all slides except title-your name, date/time, slide number

Set presentation to advance after 3 seconds (Animations tab) and to loop

continuously until you press ESC. (Slide Show Tab, Setup Slide Show)
Slide 1 title slide-insert and format a shape of your choice
Slide 2 picture from web or other outside sourceinclude citation below
Slide 2 create a hyperlink
Slide 3 WordArt
Slide 3 Table-formatted
Slide 3 animate the table
Slide 4 Insert clipart
Slide 4 add an Action to the clipart that is a hyperlink to a website for your country
(Insert Tab, Links group, Action, Hyperlink, URL) OR just right click the clip art
picture and click hyperlink
Slide 7 insert movie clip (can find in clipart) with hidden sound file (can find in
clipart)

Slide 8 use Textbox

Slide 8 Create chart of your choice
Slide 9 Smart Art
Slide 9 insert text, then change the text direction (Home tab, Paragraph
group)

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Part 2: 45 Points
Word Skills
Create a travel brochure that contains the following skills:

Set paper to landscape

Create 3 columns
set all margins to .5 narrow
Center, bold and italicize topic headings
Picture-(not clip art)---citation on the bibliography
Clip Art
Border
Page color
footer with date, your name, page #
footnote
table with data-apply a style
hyperlink
text box
shape
bulleted list
numbered list
SmartArt
Word Art
Country name on cover with outside border and fill color
Color Font on cover page
Change font style and size on cover page
Drop Cap (Insert, Text Group)
Watermark (Page Layout, Page Background Group)

Each skill is worth 2 points! You must complete both sides of the brochure (2
pages).

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Part 3: 5 Points
List the sources you used in APA citation format. At the end of this document is a tutorial on
how to do citations using Word.
1. Double space all lines (remove space before and after)
2. Hanging Indent
Suggested Internet Information Resources
1.

CCBC Library - http://library.ccbcmd.edu/

Online Newspaper Databases
Online Encyclopedia
Online Periodical
Research Database - Global Road Warrior

2.

Portal to the World

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

3.

National or International News Website (ex. MSNBC, CNN.)

o www.msnbc.com
o www.cnn.com
o www.usnews.com
o www.economist.com

4.

Internet Search Engine or Web Subject Directories

5.

U.S. Census Bureau - Int'l Programs Center

o www.census.gov
o From the People Category, select International, then select
International Database

6.

CIA World Fact book from the C. I. A.

o www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

7.

Library of Congress Country Studies

o http://www.geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/locsc/cshome.html

Citations using Word

When you add a new citation to a document, you also create a new source that will appear in
the bibliography.
1.

On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click the arrow next
to Style.

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2.

Click the style that you want to use for the citation and source. For example, social
sciences documents usually use the APA styles for citations and sources.

3.

Click at the end of the sentence or phrase that you want to cite.

4.

On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Insert
Citation.

5.

Do one of the following:

6.

To add the source information, click Add New Source.

To add a placeholder, so that you can create a citation and fill in the source
information later, click Add new placeholder. A question mark appears next to
placeholder sources in Source Manager.
Begin to fill in the source information by clicking the arrow next to Type of source.

For example, your source might be a book, a report, or a Web site. When you change
the type of source, the required fields change based on what information is
needed for each type of source.
7.

Fill in the bibliography information for the source. The in-text citation will appear. If
you need to use this source again click the Insert Citation button, select the existing
citation from the list.

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Create a bibliography
You can create a bibliography at any point after you insert one or more sources in a document.
If you don't have all of the information that you need about a source to create a complete
citation, you can use a placeholder citation, and then complete the source information later.
NOTE
1.
2.
3.

Placeholder citations do not appear in the bibliography.

Click where you want to insert a bibliography, usually at the end of the document.
On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Bibliography.

USE APA format!!!

4.

Click a predesigned bibliography format to insert the bibliography into the document.

ALL PICTURES MUST BE CITED! If you used any copyrighted pictures from any websites you
must give credit to that site.

Picture
Citation

In-text citation: (Picture of President Bush)

Reference
Picture of President Bush. (n.d.). Retrieved September 19, 2007, from bush.jpg:
http://www.cnn.com

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