15 Presentations for Making Waves Event
Making Waves Presentations
This assignment is due this week and is worth 20% of your final grade. Student groups will prepare a spoken presentation with visual aids for the public policy event. This will be presented at an event held on Tuesday. Evaluated as a group, and may be a presentation sharing Scholarly or Legacy Projects, or your Policy Briefing. You may also present on another topic that your group would like to work on, but note that this will add to your work load. Supports learning outcomes 4-7.
Assignment Requirements
As a student participant in the Making Waves Event, you will be expected to do the following:
- Work as a group to create and present a Presentation at the Event;
- Send the final version of your presentation to your instructor(s) before the Event;
- Help plan, set up, and tear down the Event if necessary.
What should our presentation include?
Your presentation time slot will be a maximum of 25 minutes (10 minutes of the presentation, 15 minutes for audience questions). You can shorten it to 8 minutes if you think that is enough time to include everything, or lengthen to 12 minutes if you want more time to include things like your Legacy Project. Your presentation should have the following pieces, but you can be creative in how you include them:
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- Introduction
- Research Questions
- Methods
- Results + Discussion (can be two different sections if you want)
- Conclusions
Your goal is to tell a story to the audience, and provide them with the information necessary for understanding your topic and argument. Each group member is expected to participate in creating the presentation and presenting it. You may use any platform you wish (some examples include Slido, PowerPoint, Prezi, Google Slides, etc.).
Some tips
- A good rule of thumb is to have no more than 1 slide per minute of talking, to ensure you don’t pack too much text onto each slide or speak to quickly. So for a 10 minute presentation, you need no more than 10 slides, plus a Title Slide and a Thank You slide for a total of 12.
- Remember, just because a platform has templates, that doesn’t mean they are good templates. Evaluate them for yourself.
- Make sure the text is large enough to be seen from the back of the audience.
- Don’t jam pack a slide full of text. A wall of text is going to distract your audience from listening to you, and it looks boring. Use text on the slides to 1) emphasize what you are saying, and 2) keep yourself on track.
- Make sure images and other media are clear, not fuzzy or distorted, and avoid any that have watermarks.
- Keep transition and animations to a minimum, or avoid them altogether.
Here are some optional resources that can help you develop your presentation skills:
Grading Rubrics and Transparency
Your instructor(s) will be using this grading rubric to assess your presentations and Event activities. Sharing the rubric allows you as students to know exactly what is expected of you, which in turn gives you the best chance for success. Use the rubric to help create your presentations and plan out how you will help out with the Event.
Marking Rubric:
| Choice of message: is it appropriate? | 20% |
| Persuasiveness of content: are you supporting your argument and persuading your audience? | 30% |
| Clarity of communication and delivery: are you speaking and presenting information clearly? | 20% |
| Appropriate graphics, images, videos, links, or other media to support your argument | 20% |
| Fairness: are all group members taking part in the creation and presentation?* | 10% |
| Total | 100% |
| *Each student will complete a survey to determine whether all group members participated fairly and equitably. |
