GSCI 1042

CRN 48590     WINTER 2008

PRESENTATIONS

·        The presentation is worth 40% of your final grade.

·        You must be scheduled, by March 20, 2008, for a place in the presentation schedule or you will receive a grade of zero for the presentation portion of your grade evaluation.   If your name does not appear on the schedule below, which states the names of persons in each group and the date of each group’s presentation, it is because you have not submitted your two alternative presentation topics and/or attended classes when presentation groups were organized and/or when topics were determined for each group.  You will not be paired with a partner and be assigned a place in the presentation schedule until you have submitted your two alternative topics as specified in the notice for assignment 2 in the Assignment page of this website. 

·        All presentations will be done by groups of two students per group.  No single person presentations will be allowed unless there is one person who cannot be partnered with one other person due to the total number of students in the class being an odd number.

·        Presentations will occur during scheduled class on March 27, April 3, and April 10, 2008.  If class is cancelled on any one of those days, the presentations which were scheduled to be given during that class will occur on April 17, 2008.  You may be required to give your presentation in any one of the presentation weeks’ classes.  Any presenter who does not give their presentation on the required date, and in the specified sequence, will receive a grade of zero for their presentation.  If a group member does not participate in the presentation, they will receive a grade of zero.  There will not be any opportunity for makeup presentations.  Refer to the presentation schedule below.

·        Presentation topics are to be specifically related to information technology – history (past, present, future), important people, effects on the individual and society, important technologies (past, present, future), etc.  The topic may or may not be related to your college Program.  For example: if you are in Human Resource management, a presentation may be about how information technologies are used in human resource management or, if you are in Hotel Management, you may want to do a presentation about how information technology is used to manage a hotel or one or more areas of a hotel such as hotel security.  No product demos are allowed, (Those are available at Future Shop, Best Buy, etc.)  The topic and its content must inform/educate about information/content not covered during the course.

·        Presentations must use information technology such as PowerPoint,  be no less than 10 minutes and no more than 12 minutes long, not including additional time for questions and answers (you will be timed).  You are allowed to use a short audio-visual clip no longer than 3 minutes in length, and the time for the audio-visual clip will be added to the minimum required length of the presentation.  For example; if the clip is 3 minutes long, the presentation must be between 13 minutes and 15 minutes long, not including the question and answer period.

·        Each group will be graded according to the quality of their presentation which includes: Knowledge of subject matter; Effectiveness of communication; Evidence of research; Use of audio-visual material; Within required time; Ability to relate to the audience; Ability to answer questions; Extemporaneous style delivery (no/very little reading/referring to notes); Understandability; Sharing of work by group members.  You and your partner should share equally in developing the presentation, in presenting, and answering questions.  You and your partner must practice your presentation so that it appears to be extemporaneous which means your presentation must not be read from notes and/or the screen.  You should appear relaxed and confident because of your thorough familiarity with the content of your presentation.  There will be a question and answer period immediately after your presentation.  You should be familiar enough with the content of your presentation to be able to competently answer relevant questions.

·        Any information/material/concepts/ideas/pictures/videos which you use and are not your own must be adequately referenced (MLA style preferred) in your presentation otherwise it’s plagiarism.

·        Your presentation materials, PowerPoint, documents, pictures, etc., must be submitted on a computer readable CD immediately after you finish your presentation.  Your CD must not have any viruses, worms, Trojans, or other nasties which can infect a computer.  If the content in your CD infects the computer, there will be dire consequences to your presentation grade (possibly zero).   Your CD must be labeled with the title of the presentation and the names of the presenters.

·        For each presentation, a grade, out of 40 marks will be determined and that number will be multiplied by the number of people in the group and given to the group to divide among them and, within 48 hours after the presentation, each member of the group must inform Mr. Richmond, by email to the course email account (cfadw48590@yahoo.ca) about the number of marks each person in the group is to receive.  For example, if I determine that the presentation received 30/40 marks and there are two people in the group, that mark of 30 will be multiplied by 2 and give to the group to divide among them.  If both members of the group did equal work, they should share the marks equally (30 marks each).  If one person did more work then they should receive more marks than the other person (If one person did 2/3 of the work they should receive 40 marks, the other person should receive 20 marks.).  If no email is received from both members of the group within 48 hours of the evaluation being given to them, then the same evaluation will be given to each of them.  The subject line of the email to be used is: Presentation Grade

·        All students, including those who are not presenting, are required to attend from the beginning to the end of each class.

·        Evaluative questions about the presentations will be given as assignments to the class.

·        If you have any questions, email them to Mr. Richmond at the course email address: cfadw48590@yahoo.ca

·        For additional information, refer to the course outline and other documents available on the course website: http://ca.oocities.com/cfadw48590