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This assignment has been designated by the Department of Computer Science for assessment of certain expected outcomes for its degree programs, as required by our accreditation agencies, the University, and the State of Florida. Departmental policy does not permit a final grade of "C-" or better to be assigned unless the student has earned an "effective" or "highly effective" assessment on both the presentation and the written paper, regardless of performance on other work in the course. Ratings of Ineffective [I], Effective [E], and Highly Effective [H] for both the written paper and the oral presentation are obtained using the following scale:
based on grades on a scale of 0-50 points. |
An oral YouTube presentation is required by each student. The presentation material (the YouTube video) together with a paper describing your investigation of the topic should be submitted for grading at the end of the term before exam week starts. (See course organizer for exact due dates.)
Videos should be uploaded to YouTube. Links to the videos should be embedded in a post to the Presentation forum in the Blackboard Discussion Board of the course site. Be sure that the subject/thread for your post is a short title for your work.
Papers (PDF format) should be uploaded using the Paper Submission button on the Blackboard course site. The paper itself should also contain link(s) to your YouTube video(s).
The grade breakdown of the presentation component of the course (10% of the total final grade) is 5% credit for the oral presentation and 5% credit for the paper.
The evaluation of the quality of the presentation, as well as the paper, will take into account the originality, relevance, and currency of information that you present, as well as the clarity of the presentation and writing. (See below for more details.)
Students with disabilities will be given an alternative option for the oral presentation. Please contact the instructor to discuss these options.
The format of the oral presentation is some video format that is YouTube compatible. It is permissible to have two separate components if that is conveneint, for example, your intro video of youself talking followed by a voice-over-powerpoint for the technical content. Please limit yourself to at most two YouTube postings, and be sure that the first one leads naturally to the second one. It would of course be preferable to have one video that contains your intro and segways into the technical talk.
The presentation should begin with a personal introduction that shows you speaking. Introduce yourself, say a few words about you such as where you live, what you are currently doing, where you want to be after getting your CS degree. You may also say a few words about your personal things such as family or non-CS interests. This intro video should not last more than one minute.
The remainder of the presentation is a "technical presentation". This may use a continuation of straight video, voice-over power point [with auto slide changes], or some combination of media and video such as possible with camtasia.
The evaluation of the quality of the presentation (as well as the paper) will take into account the originality, relevance, and currency of information that you present, as well as the clarity of the presentation. The presentation will be scored using the following rubric:
Grading criteria for oral presentations (50 pts possible):
To address all issues in the topic description you need to find resources for your presentation, such as textbooks, Web sources (you can trust), and/or technical papers (when applicable). Consult these resources to prepare a presentation that explains what your topic is about and what it does. It is suggested to add a bit of history that explains the origin and/or the context of the topic, when applicable.
The presentation paper should have a title page (with title, author, and date), a short abstract that summarizes the content in one paragraph, an introduction section that states the question/problem to investigate with a discussion on how you approached the problem, the paper body (several sections), a conclusion that summarizes your results and findings, and a bibliography of references to papers and web sites you consulted.
The title/abstract page should have embedded link(s) to the oral personal intro and the technical presentation.
The paper length is not limited, but should be at least four pages of double-spaced 12pt serif font.
Warning on plagiarism: do not copy/paste material without properly quoting the text and citing the resources. For example, if you found a definition of a term in a paragraph that you would like to refer to, use the common citation requirements: "...sentence..." [ref], where ref is a citation in your bibliography. Note that quotes are needed when you copy text literally.
The presentation paper will be scored using the following rubric (50 points possible):
To address all issues in the topic description you need to find resources for your presentation, such as textbooks, Web sources (you can trust), and/or technical papers (when applicable). Consult these resources to prepare a presentation that explains what your topic is about and what it does. It is suggested to add a bit of history that explains the origin and/or the context of the topic, when applicable.
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Acknowledgement: this document is a modification based on an original by Robert van Engelen.