Resources/Notes for Weeks #8 & #9: Practice Presentations and Individual Consults

Week 8: Practicing for NCUR

This Week’s Location: 2nd Floor Classroom, beginning promptly at 3 PM
Order of Presenters: Kerishma, Colby, Laura
Presentation Length: 15 minutes (we won’t cut you off if you go long, but we will tell you just how much longer you went, and give you advice on where and how to cut your material)

We will have an overall feedback session and discussion after all three presentations. Jenny will record your performances and post them (protected) on the eportfolio for your review. We will finalize our plans for 3/25.

Week 9: Individual Meetings

Date: Tuesday, March 25
Assignment: Meet with Jenny for 30 minutes, use the feedback from that meeting to work for 30 minutes, then meet with Lindsey for 30 minutes.
Meeting Location: 1st Floor Reading Room
Topic: your NCUR presentation or your digital thesis project, whichever needs more attention

Ideal schedule: 

• Student #1 meets Jenny at 2 and Lindsey at 3
• Student #2 meets Jenny at 2:30 and Lindsey at 3:30
• Student #3 meets Jenny at 3 and Lindsey at 4

To-Do for Week 10 (April 1st)

Read one article on audience:

• Colby reads Jenny Kidd, “Digital Storytelling at the BBC: The Reality of Innovative Audience Participation”
• Kerishma reads Alice Marwick and danah boyd, “I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience”
• Laura reads Peter Levine, “A Public Voice for Youth: The Audience Problem in Digital Media and Civic Education”

Continue revising and preparing your NCUR presentation, as well as developing your digital thesis project as appropriate.