PowerPoint issue presentation
(groups of 2)

75 points

5-7 minutes
no questions

Prepare a presentation on an issue regarding PowerPoint that is important for classmates to consider. Your presentation will be graded on the following criteria:

• Your topic is relevant to classmates' needs.
• You explain your topic in enough detail for your audience to understand your information.
• You use PowerPoint effectively.
• You speak clearly.
• You make eye contact with audience.

Informative Presentation (individual)

Analysis of audience and purpose (50 pts.)

You can refer to p. 57 and 64 in your textbook for other versions of these analysis questions.

Answer the following questions to analyze your audience and purpose:

1. What type of audience will you be speaking to? How will your audience affect the way you design and deliver your presentation?
2. What are some demographic and other features about your audience? How will demographics, etc. affect the way you design and deliver your presentation?
3. What are issues about your audience as a group that are important for you to know? How will these issues affect the way you design and deliver your presentation?
4. What is the primary purpose of your presentation?
5. What are the secondary purposes of your presentation?
6. What are some features central to the context or situation of your presentation?
7. What other information would be useful to you as you prepare your presentation?

Informative Presentation
Annotated bibliography (40 pts.)

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Include the following information in your annotated bibliography:

1. Full citation of source in MLA or other standard citation style.
2. Brief summary of information on source in approximately 100 words.
3. Brief explanation of how this source will be useful to you in your presentation.

Annotate 3 sources that you will use to prepare your presentation.

Informative Presentation:
Oral presentation ( 100 pts.)

individual presentations

5 minutes

no questions

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Your oral presentation will be graded on the following criteria:

• Begins with a strong introduction.
• States your audience and purpose in the beginning.
• Explains how your resources will accomplish your purpose.
• Explains how your resources accommondate your audience's needs.
• Explains how other people in the class might use resources.
• Ends with strong conclusion.
• Provides effective visuals.
• Uses media in a professional manner.
• Maintains good eye contact.
• Stays within 5-minute limit.

10/5

10/7

Problem-solution Presentation (groups of 3)

strategy and rationale (50 pts.)

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Answer the following questions to analyze your stratgegy and the rationale for strategy :

1. What problem will you address in this presentation?
2. Who is your audience and why is this problem significant for your audience?
3. What solution will you offer for this problem?
4. Why will this solution be persuasive to your audience? What will you do in your presentation to make your point convincingly?
5. How will you build credibility for yourself in this presentation? Why should your audience believe you and accept your solution?
6. What are the primary and secondary purposes for choosing your particular topic for this presentation? How will you accomplish your purposes through your presentation?
7. What are some features that are important for you to consider in situation surrounding your presentation? How will you work with or compensate for those features?
8. What other information would be useful to you as you prepare your presentation?

Problem-solution Presentation:
Oral presentation
(100 pts.)

12 - 15 minutes

Q&A

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• Begins with a strong introduction.
• Presents problem and solution.
• Addresses reasons why other solutions won't work or haven't worked.
• Is appropriate for intended audience.
• Has clear organization.
• Ends with strong conclusion.
• Is appropriate for audience and purpose.
• Uses graphics and visual aids in a professional manner.
• Uses clear speaking style.
• Maintains good eye contact.
• Stays within 12-15 minute limit.

How-to Presentation: (groups of 3)

Analogy and Visual Explanation
(75 points)

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11/18

Explain how you will use analogy and visuals to help you communicate your instructions in the how-to presentation. Answer the questions below to complete your explanation:

• What is the topic of your how-to presentation? Who is your audience and what will you instruct them to do?
• What analogy will be useful to help you explain your topic to your audience? What background knowledge does your audience have that will make your analogy familiar to them? What values will your analogy appeal to?
• Why is your analogy apt for your topic? How can you fully integrate your analogy into your instructions?
• What visuals will you use to illustrate your analogy? How will you integrate these visuals into your presentation? How will these visuals help your audience learn from your instructions?
• What other visuals will you use in addition to those that relate to your analogy? Why will you use these visuals? How will they help your audience learn from your instructions?

How-to presentation (150 pts.)

12- 15 minutes

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• Presents topic that is relevant and interesting to audience members.
• Begins with a strong introduction.
• Has clear organization.
• Ends with strong conclusion.
• Foregrounds content.
• Provides opportunities for comparisons and/or analysis of information.
• Does not use PowerPoint bullets, except for possibly advanced organizer slide.
• Uses media in a creative way to engage audience members and interact with them.
• Is appropriate in style and tone for audience and purpose.
• Is presented in a professional manner to encourage interaction with audience (speaking style and eye contact).
• Stays within 15-minute limit.

Final client presentation: groups of 3

Work Plan

(75 points)

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12/7

Three presentations will be video recorded or otherwise preserved for use in public presentations for Farm in the City and for the McKinley community garden.

Three teams will be named and each will produce one of the final presentations. This assignment asks you to articulate your team's work plan to complete the project by August 5.

Answer these questions in your work plan:

1. Who are your team members? Which pesentation will you be producing? What is the topic of this presentation?
2. What primary and secondary audiences will you target in your presentation? Why are these appropriate audiences for your topic?
3. How will you build a sense of credibility with your audience? Why will your audience feel that this is a significant topic? How would you answer the "So what?" question?
4. What changes do you want to induce in your audience after viewing your presentation? How will you encourage these changes?
5. How will you use video to deliver your message?
6. What other media will you use in your presentation? Why are these other media important and how will you use them with the video?
7. What will each team member contribute to the project? What tasks will each team member complete? What qualifications does each team member have for his or her contribution?
8. What is your timeline for completing this project by Aug. 5? What is the timeline for each member of your team?
9. What resources do you have and how will you use them? What resources do you need and how will you get them?

Final client presentation preview
(50 pts.)

10 minutes

Final client preview presentation feedback
(25 pts.)

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• What do you think about the team's audience analysis? Have they targeted their audience accurately? Are there additional audiences who might benefit from their final presentation? If so, what are they?
• How will the team build a sense of credibility with their primary audience? Why will this audience feel that the topic is significant? Do you see any way to make this topic more relevant to the primary and/or secondary audience(s)?
• What changes does the team want to induce in their primary audience after viewing your presentation? Do you think the presentation will be effective in inducing those changes? Why or why not? What could be done to increase this presentation's effectiveness?
• Is the team using the video medium effectively? How could they use the medium to greater advantage for their audience and topic?
• Is the team using other media effectively with the video? How could they use other media to greater advantage for their audience and topic?
• Has the team considered everything that they need to complete by the deadline? Have they assigned all the tasks adequately? What shortcomings can you foresee that the team needs to address in order to complete this project successfully by August 5? How can you help them cover all the necessary bases?
• Does the team have all the resources they need to complete the project? What else might they need that they haven't considered yet? What suggestions can you offer to help them get all the resources they need?

Final project
Deliverable
(80 pts.)

Your final presentation and associated materials will be graded on the following criteria:

• Is appropriate for use by Farm in the City and/or McKinley community gardening.
• Is professional enough for community partners to use in their public work.
• Includes technically accurate information on composting and/or non-toxic gardening.
• Is free of grammatical, typographic, and other mechanical errors.
• Uses video and other media effectively.

Final client presentation (150 pts.)

12- 15 minutes

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• Presents topic that is relevant and interesting to audience members.
• Begins with a strong introduction.
• Has clear organization.
• Ends with strong conclusion.
• Foregrounds content.
• Provides opportunities for comparisons and/or analysis of information.
• Does not use PowerPoint bullets, except for possibly advanced organizer slide.
• Uses media in a creative way to engage audience members and interact with them.
• Is appropriate in style and tone for audience and purpose.
• Is presented in a professional manner to encourage interaction with audience (speaking style and eye contact).
• Stays within 15-minute limit.

Reflection (60 pts.)

email to blongo@umn.edu

Write an analysis of the team dynamics that contributed to successfully completing your project by the deadline and email it to Prof. Longo at blongo@umn.edu.

Answer the following questions in your analysis:

1. What was the topic of your final presentation? Who was/were your intended audience(s) as you were planning your presentation?
2. What did you foresee were your audience's needs and expectations relating to your topic? In your planning, what did you do to accommodate those needs and expectations?
3. When you met our visitors on Dec. 14, how did seeing these clients fit with your ideas about your audience? Did these people have different needs, expectations, reactions than you expected? How were their reactions what you expected and how were they different?
4. How did you feel your presentation went on the 14th? Do you feel you got across the information to our visitors? In what ways was your presentations successful? What might you change about it if you had it to do again?
5. What was the most important thing you learned in class this semester?
6. What would you like to tell students in future semesters who might continue working on your project? What did you learn this semester that you'd like to pass along to other students?