Final Project Presentation Guidelines

For your final project, you will have 10-12 minutes to present your work to the class. You should not go longer or shorter than this amount of time.

You will present both your creative component and your critical component. Aim to spend about half your time presenting each, so there is something of an even breakdown.

The order in which you present your two components is up to you. You may choose to present the creative then the critical, then the critical then creative, or some mixture of the two.

Please consider how you will present your work, and practice ahead of time. Bring notecards to keep yourself on track, and time yourself to make sure you don't go over or under time.

You are welcome to use the technology in the classroom if it is appropriate. You may choose to create a Powerpoint or Prezzi in order to share your work. Anything that you put up on the screen should have proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Capitalize all sentences and check for errors. It is better to have no Powerpoint or Prezzi than a sloppy one, so take care.

If you will be screening a video, or sharing anything computer-based, make sure it is online already on a website in advance to coming to class. Do not bring a flashdrive, or email files to yourself to open. 

We do not have time between presentations, so you need to have everything on a website so that  you can simply type in the address and bring it right up.

Please note that I will be grading your presentation on the following:

How well prepared you are
Whether you stay within the 10-12 min time frame
How well you articulate your critical component
How creative your creative aide is and how well you present it

Please note that I will not be grading you on how calm or nervous you are. I don't think that's fair. You can be nervous and still get a great grade, as long as you present your work. Don't worry about taking a minute to pause or needing to re-state something. That's totally fine. However, because some people get nervous, do bring notecards and practice in advance.