This page describes the objectives, project details, recommended approaches, hints and tips, submission guidelines, and evaluation standards for the Presentation.
The Presentation distills your Scholarly Project into 5-7 minute screencast that is directed to peers in the class.
Document type: memo, screencast
Document length: 150 words (memo), 5 to 7 minutes (screencast)
Project value: 200 points
Evaluation rubric: _RPW520_Eval_Presentation.pdf
The Presentation recasts your Scholarly Project as a 5 to 7 minute screencast aimed at peers in the class. Thus, the core expectations of the Scholarly Project apply here as well.
Your project submission will include the following elements:
A memo of transmittal introduces the accompanying document to its audience(s). Your memo should be addressed from you to me, and should introduce the accompanying project. Your memo should incorporate the following content elements.
Distill the core elements of your Scholarly Project, and recast them for a more-general, professional audience. Prepare a 5 to 7 minute screencast of your work using Techsmith Jing or a comparable package or service. This is a brief, but focused and concrete video that should distill the key elements of your study from the Scholarly Project. With such a brief time frame, your responsibility is to focus on the most important, most relevant details about the topic.
Develop a slideshow (or similar document) to designate as your record window for the screencast. If you need to, refer back to the Screencast workshop for details about creating this kind of document.
Recommended tool(s): Microsoft PowerPoint, Techsmith Jing, Screencast.com
This section offers guidance for how to interpret the project, and for how to proceed with your work on it. Therefore, as you work, consider the following strategies:
Because the Scholarly Project is the content and core of this project as well, review those strategies for this project as well.
We have discussed audience in relation to projects all semester. Present the material appropriately for knowledgeable professionals who do not share your expertise with the subject matter.
Prepare your screencast using an appropriate screencasting tool. I recommend that you use Techsmith Jing or something similar. If you have access to Camtasia by that same company, I recommend it highly. I also provide a link to a free tool below. You are welcome to use other software as long as it allows you to produce and stream a screencast.
Note that you cannot use a web cam to complete this work. As the term implies, a screencast is a recording of what transpires on your computer screen.
This section is designed to help you anticipate and avoid problems as you work on this project. Therefore, as you work, consider the following hints and tips:
Screencasting tools allow you to designate a recording window, which may be a portion of your computer screen or the whole screen. The contents of that window are recorded during the screencasting process. Designate the report document as your recording window.
Once you have completed your recording, review your screencast to make sure that (1) your delivery is professional, coherent, and well paced, (2) your video is clear and free of flaws, and (3) your audio is clear, audible, and free of distracting clicks or other background sounds.
Although it is possible to upload a video file (typically an .mp4 or .swf format file), such files can be large. The services listed above (as well as Screencast.com) all allow you to share a link with others that, when selected, provides access to a video stream. Because most email packages (including SVSU Vmail) have limits on file size for attachments, this sharing option is often the most effective. Always test your link before you submit your project.
Plan and rehearse your delivery so that you use the time allotted to you for your presentation. It is often obvious when students have not planned well because they stumble through their material, or seem uncertain of what to say next.
Read and attend carefully to these submission guidelines. Failure to do so may result in delays in receiving feedback on the draft of your project, or in points lost on the final evaluation of your project.
Use the Screencast.com account that you created for the Screencast workshop this semester to host your video. If you have opted for one of the alternate services, then post your video to the linked storage site.
Look for the Discussion forum on SVSU Canvas designated for the Online Conference. Post a message that introduces your presentation, and invites questions from peers. Add the Share link from Screencast.com (or the equivalent link from another service) to that post.
This section describes the standards by which your draft and final submissions will be evaluated.
There are 200 possible points for the final project. You will earn points according to the following standard: 60% content development, 20% design execution, and 20% professionalism & attention to detail.
Remember that I will only post the point values for projects on the Grades page in SVSU Canvas. I will post the details relevant to that evaluation in your class folder in a project-specific file.
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