You should be using the same topic you selected for your Research Essay (Picked from the provided list) to prepare your Multimedia project. Based on your critical reading about this topic, prepare a multi-media essay that is based on the following criteria: Your multi-media essay must focus and ARGUE the significant of the topic and how environmental changes made by human are affecting your selected topic. Make sure to use some of the concepts you have learned throughout the course. Your multi-media essay must encompass overall 600 printed words. Your multi-media project MUST start with your name and the name of the course. The 600 words can be interspersed or spread throughout several components of your multi-media essay: usually over a script, headers, sub-topics, your own narrations or similar media elements, or even bulleted written text that accompanies your visuals. Your multi-media essay must successfully integrate voice, music, visuals, and text. You can use any format with which you have familiarity—such as Power Point, Filmora, VLC Media Player, Viva Video, Screencast-o-matic (search and find these multimedia creative and editing programs online—students can get a FREE version of the one you select. Most all video and presentation maker software is free and downloadable from the web. Most students who are not familiar with the more upscale video and audio software use Power Point since it incorporates visual, text, animations, and audio (music, recorded sound and narrated voice). However . . . if you do choose to use Power Point, create it and save it in a format so that the viewer (me) does NOT have to advance the slides and/or music–in other words, your presentation must be self-advancing.  Okay?! I am aware that many (most) of us millennials and Generation I’s have familiarity with multi-media programs and have used them or are doing them for your current college classes. So, the information on multimedia creation programs above are intended as just a basic smorgasbord of multi-media programs and features. Your multi-media essay MUST include elements of text (600 words—written or audio scripted, topical headings, etc.), visuals (still and/or streaming images), music, and voice-over narration (where you deem appropriate). ************Your multi-media essay must successfully focus a THESIS, SUPPORT FOR THE THESIS (through the voice, music, visuals, and text), a CONCLUSION SECTION, IN-TEXT WORD or AUDIO CITING, and a WORKS CITED PAGE. ***Do not cram a lot of small type font words on a slide or streaming visual. Your audience cannot see them clearly to read them and it mars the quality of your overall essay’s ethos! When all is said and done, your multi-media essay must convey your thoughts in words, audio, and images that convey a clear argument about your focused topic and thesis statement. See Canvas dates for submittal and other specific information. (If you use a multi-media program, like Windows Movie Maker, then you can set a direct link that is available in Canvas and it will link to and play your multi-media essay in Youtube or Google Docs which significantly reduces file space and buffering if you just load it directly to Canvas.) Be aware that this assignment is MORE than just creating slides in Power Point.  Just doing this will not earn a passing grade.  If you choose to use Power Point, you will need to use the more advanced features for video streaming, audio sound-bed, and narration.  It may seem overwhelming if you have not done it before in Power Point, but it only takes a couple hours following any of the many online tutorials to become proficient.  And, in the process of so doing, you will learn some invaluable skill sets.