URGENT!! need some presentation ideas!!

Hi, I'm taking an "American Culture and Globalization" class and I'm supposed to give a presentation. All the topics like TV, food, film, and music are covered in class so I can't make a presentation on those topics.
I chose "disabilities and special education" as a topic because I believe that the U.S. is the poineer of this field and is influencing the world by Globalization.
HOWEVER, the professor wants the presentations to be absolutely CREATIVE.
She gave us an example with the topic "poverty" and she said a creative way to present this topic may be a photo essay.(Taking picturese of what we think of poverty and then presenting them)
Can you give me any CREATIVE ideas on my topic presentation?

hey there amber

heres a couple of tips,

1- always keep things simple, never present a heap of words that would take ppl ages to read.

2- always try to add graphics where applicable, as they say "a picture is worth a thousand words"

3- dark backgrounds, light text...vise versa

4- its also a good idea to use bubles or simple diagrams when explaining problems and issues...

5-back up any essay with charts or numbred statistics to make it "REAL"

6- once in a while add a funny pic to the lot, but it has to be related to the topic.

7- my favourate move is always adding the looney tunes ending to the last slide with the "that all folks" phrase, very homurous and popular! but i dont think it will work in ur presentation... u gotta go oprah style and add drama to it!

anyways i think ive said enough,
hope i helped a bit

Hi Amber

I tried to reply to this a few days ago but for some reason I had issues!

anyway I hope it's not too late.

I thought that you might think along the theme that you chosse to perhaps talk about something like Tourettes and how that impacts teaching / education. So you could be creative by using photography where the person has words taped over their mouth - or show a hand taped to the desk...representating that it's a struggle for a Tourettes sufferer. Or there is also a documentary which you can buy at a good price from ebay or amazon called "John's not mad" - its a documentary from the 80s filed by BBC about a boy with tourettes.
You could talk about how the USA handles tourettes - for example their are camps for people with this and they boost confidence and exposure to the issues surrounding the condition.

Hope this is the kind of thing you were looking for.

Let me kmow if I can help more.

Pamela

thanks a lot for the tips you gave me
i know it's gonna help a LOT!!!!
i especially like the looney tunes idea!!!
Thanks a billion!!!!