INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEHS103 PRESENTATIONS
Creating the presentation
• Presentations
and discussion questions are due on
Monday evening of Week 8 by 11:59 PM EST.Refer to the syllabus for the
grading rubric. Your presentations will be graded according to how well the
presentation satisfies each of the requirements.
• Your
presentation should take about 10-15 minutes for your classmates to view or
review.
o If you
are narrating your presentation, using a video, or providing a podcast, this time
limit is self-explanatory.
o If you
are submitting an unnarrated slide show (PowerPoint or Prezi), provide notes or
a transcript to help your viewer understand what they are viewing.
o If you
are submitting a paper, keep in mind that one double spaced page takes about 3
minutes to read, so your paper should be about 3-5 double-spaced pages in
length.
• If you
are doing a PowerPoint presentation, you may want to do a web search on “effective
PowerPoint presentations” – there are plenty of sites with great suggestions.
My top 5 tips are:
1) Use easy
to read fonts and keep them consistent throughout the presentation.
2) Make sure
your text is large enough. For standard fonts, a pitch of 28 is usually a good
size (with headers being larger).
3) Use
bullet points rather than paragraphs and complete sentences, especially if you
are providing narration.
4) Visual
images that illustrate the point you are trying to make promote deeper
learning, but don’t go crazy with the clip art! Simpler is usually better.
5) Go easy
on the animations. They can be effective, but they shouldn’t be distracting.
• Remember
to provide citations – if you are presenting a fact that you learned from an
article, website or other source, you MUST provide a citation. I expect that
everyone will be using citations since you all conducted research to learn more
about your topics.
• In a
slide show, you can provide the citation in small font at the bottom of the
slide you are citing.
• In a
paper, you must use in-text citations and a reference list.
• In an
audio presentation, you can verbally acknowledge your source (e.g. “Dr. John
Smith from Harvard University said…”) or you can provide a separate reference
list along with your presentation.
• Do NOT
plagiarize. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional use of another’s
words or ideas and passing them of as one’s own. It is a serious academic
offense that must be reported to the Dean’s Office. You cannot copy and paste from another source
without providing a citation. In fact, you should use quotes very sparingly
(less than 10% of your work). Even paraphrasing without attribution is
considered plagiarism. If you have questions about APA format, citations, or
plagiarism, visit the UMUC library and use the search feature to get more
information, OR ask!
• Save your
presentation with a title that includes your name so that your classmates won’t
get confused when they download your work.
Posting the presentation
• Post your
presentation and discussion question under Week 8 Course Content – “POST
PRESENTATIONS HERE” by Monday evening at 11:59 PM EST.
• IN
ADDITION: Post your presentation to the Assignments link in the weekly content
area. This step is important because posting to the Assignments link allows me
to attach the grading rubric and send the grade directly to the grade book.
• Give your
topic a subject line in the following format: Presentation Topic_Name (e.g.
Parenting and Technology_John Doe).
• Post your
discussion question in the body of the text.
• Attach
your presentation or provide your link in the body of the text – Note: LEO does
NOT have a size limit on files; however, programs like Knovio may have problems
processing larger file sizes.
Monitor your presentation
Throughout the remainder of the week, check to see if anyone
has responded to your presentation and provide a response as appropriate.
Review presentations
Review and respond to at least 5 classmates during the week.
This is your discussion participation score for the week. Please try to provide
initial responses by Friday or early Saturday so that everyone has a chance to
respond by Sunday evening.
Since everyone is working hard on their presentations, it
would be nice for everyone to receive feedback. If you see that a presentation
has not received any feedback, please make the effort to provide some comments
to your peers so that everyone’s work is recognized.
Rate presentations
Visit the survey provided in the discussion area called
BEHS103 Peer Review Rating Form and rate the presentations you reviewed on a
scale from 4 to 10. Rate every presentation you reviewed even if you didn’t
respond. The average peer rating is worth 10% of the presentation grade.
Ratings should be submitted by the last day of the term (Sunday evening at
11:59 PM EST).
The URL for the survey is: ____________________________
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