Digital Presentations

Students plan, design and give a four-minute talk with questions across ten 60-minute lessons, building one deck that grows each week: a storyboard with headline titles, slides designed with alignment and a style guide, pictures and diagrams with credited images, a story with a hook and a clear ending, purposeful animation, two timed rehearsals, accessible slides with live captions, and hidden backup slides for questions. Talk Day runs in groups of four, so every student presents in one period. Every step-by-step covers PowerPoint for the web and Google Slides, on Windows, Mac and Chromebook.

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Storyboard Your Talk
Plan a Talk Worth Hearing
Guiding the Eye
Design That Guides the Eye
A Look That Holds Together
Pictures That Explain
Pictures That Explain

Shape the Story
Shape the Story
Movement and Rehearsal
Animation with a Purpose
Rehearse Like You Mean It

Slides Everyone Can Follow
Slides Everyone Can Follow
Questions and Talk Day
Questions and the Unexpected
Talk Day

Storyboard Your Talk
Plan a Talk Worth Hearing
Guiding the Eye
Design That Guides the Eye
A Look That Holds Together
Pictures That Explain
Pictures That Explain

Shape the Story
Shape the Story
Movement and Rehearsal
Animation with a Purpose
Rehearse Like You Mean It

Slides Everyone Can Follow
Slides Everyone Can Follow
Questions and Talk Day
Questions and the Unexpected
Talk Day

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Curriculum Mapping

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NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement (2025)

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Personal Growth

P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 P.7 P.8 P.9 P.10 P.11

Being a Learner

B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4 B.5 B.6 B.7 B.8 B.9 B.10 B.11 B.12

Civic and Community Engagement

C.1 C.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9 C.10 C.11

Career Exploration

CE.1 CE.2 CE.3 CE.4 CE.5 CE.6 CE.7 CE.8

The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

What Students Will Learn

Learning Goals

Plan a talk as a storyboard with one idea per slide and headline titles.
Design consistent, readable slides using contrast, alignment, space and a style guide.
Explain ideas with pictures, diagrams and purposeful animation.
Rehearse with timing and feedback, and make slides accessible with live captions.
Give a four-minute talk and handle questions with confidence.

Build a full TY year around Digital Presentations

This module is one of 7 Transition Year modules you can combine into a complete Year-Long TY Digital Skills Programme, shaped around your timetable and the students in front of you.

Run the same pathway for every student, or set different pathways for different groups. Students also get access to the modules they're not doing in class, which is ideal for the keen ones who finish early or want to explore further on their own time.

Prefer a deeper tech focus? Swap in Advanced Coding or Robotics and Automation. Each module is 10 to 15 lessons of 40-60 minutes, leaving room for school events, mid-terms and everything else TY throws at you.

Why TY coordinators choose it

One decision, a year's content

No more stitching resources together every term.

Flexible per class, per student

Run different pathways side by side.

Certificates after each module

Great for TY portfolios, open days and reports home.

Sets students up for Senior Cycle

Broad exposure so they choose subjects with confidence.

Sample Year Plan

ICT + Coding focus

Computer Skills
Gets everyone on a level footing
Introduction to Coding
Real, working projects from week one
Exploring Digital Media
Video, design and storytelling
Exploring Artificial Intelligence
The topic your students keep asking about
Enterprise and Business Basics
A pitch-and-launch project to close out the year

Digital Presentations

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1 Plan and Design 4 lessons

2 Tell It Well 3 lessons

3 Deliver It 3 lessons