Presentation and Final Proposals

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
11/29
Noah Macinskas
Seth Gullion
Adam Church
Jennice Lee

12/6
Julie Logan
John VIsclosky
Kaitlin Luther
Ari Levinson
Carolyn French

PRESENTATION INFO
You'll each have a bit more than 15 minutes, I suggest no more than half for presentation, reserving at least 8-9 minutes for discussion.
Your goal for this presentation is to effectively communicate your thesis idea and plan in order to get meaningful feedback to fold back into your final proposal.

You may invite your department advisor. If you do, and you would like to accommodate your visitor by being at a certain time slot on your day, let me know and I will do my best to schedule it.

Your presentation should include a clear title, a clear description of your controlling idea, its significance within your field and your motivation. You should identify the multimedia genre or genres, your research methodology and your delivery system. You should demonstrate your intentions with a modest prototype ( a layout, storyboard, walk through - we discussed these for most of you) and show us what you've learned from it. It is often effective to prepare questions for your audience; if you have identified hurdles or particular issues, point them out and ask for suggestions. What are your vulnerabilities/challenges going forward with this project?

FINAL PROPOSAL - DUE in HARD COPY & POSTED Tuesday 12/11
Your final proposal should follow the original proposal outline (adding "tags" after abstract) incorporating comments you've received in response to your draft, your experiments/prototyping experience and your presentation. Please hand it in to Janein Chavez in IML.


GENERAL COMMENTS
Many of you threw out your original "mad lib" sentence:

Don't be hamstrung by this sentence structure, but

1) declare your topic
I am investigating ________

2)question your topic
because I want to find out how/whether/when/if ______________

3) motivate your question
because I want my reader (identify your reader!) to understand/discover/ to be convinced whether/why/that _____________

If this is unclear, please go back to the readings and notes from the first three weeks of class.

To justify the use of multimedia, describe the limits of print to effectively communicate your idea. How (be specific) will the multimedia you've chosen be more effective?