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| Points | 25 |
| Deadline | Ongoing |
You need to present your topic to your classmates, and prepare a document (e.g. a Web page) with a brief description of your finding. Your material has to be made available to class on Blackboard. If you want to, you can also distribute a handout, e.g. a printout of your Web page or copies of PowerPoint slides. The presentation should last about ten minutes; the abstract should be about 100-200 words long, and your written documentation should be about the equivalent of two to three printed pages.
You can sign up for a presentation date on a sheet that I will pass around during the first two weeks of the quarter. Initially, only those students who have already selected a topic will be allowed to pick a date, so it will be beneficial to choose a topic early. The selection of a topic and presentation date should be made during the first two weeks of the quarter. After that, I may assign dates, and if necessary, topics, to students. The deadlines for the delliverables depend on your selected or assigned presentation date, and are listed in the table below.
| Issue | Deadline |
| Topic selected and approved | two weeks before presentation |
| Draft of presentation (e.g. outline) prepared, and abstract posted on Blackboard | one week before presentation |
| Final version of presentation and documentation prepared and posted on Blackboard | two days before presentation |
The table below indicates the grading criteria I intend to use for the evaluation of this assignment.
| Criterion | Points |
| Draft version and abstract | 5 |
| Final version of presentation and documentation | 5 |
| Delivery of presentation | 15 |
Feel free to use PowerPoint or some other presentation software. You can use my Macintosh PowerBook, but there are a few practical constraints. It doesn't have a floppy disk drive, so you need to put the file with the presentation on Blackboard at the latest the day before you give the presentation. You can also put the presentation on a CD-ROM or a USB flash drive, and bring it to class, but on a few occasions there have been problems reading files from these media.
I have the recent versions of presentation software, PowerPoint 2004 and Keynote 2 on my laptop, and most presentations work without problems. Sometimes fonts are missing, but this is usually only an appearance problem. If you're using sounds, images, movie clips or other advanced features, make sure that they are either directly included in the main file, or that the auxiliary files are also submitted. If you want to be on the safe side, you can also bring your own laptop, or borrow one from Media Services.
For those of you who don't have much experience giving presentations, follow this link to some presentation hints.
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