Final Week Schedule

12/07/2015 Monday

• 4 presentations & Q-&-A (Presenters: please upload your slides to compass2g before class)
• "graduate student communication needs" survey: evaluate and improve the curriculum

12/09/2015 Wednesday (last class!)

• 4 presentations & Q-&-A (Presenters: please upload your slides to compass2g before class)
• ICES (Instructor Course Evaluation System) form: evaluate the instructions and give feedback
• DUE: reflection #2, by 11:59pm

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4.3 Presentation Delivery

Important Announcement: Opportunity to Earn Extra Credit for Unit 4

Hope you are all having a restful break!

This week, Monday (11/30) to Thursday (12/03), you are offered with an opportunity to earn extra credit for your Unit 4 assignment. I invite you to experience a students' conference: "ESL503 Mock Conference", a multidisciplinary conference that combines all sections of ESL 503, allowing the students to share their research and interests and gain practice and experience in a safe, authentic conference setting.

Anyone is permitted to attend the ESL 503 Mock Conference, and we encourage the ESL 500 students, in particular, to participate as audience members due to the skills focus for Unit 4.

You will be able to watch one or more presentations, and reflect on your own mistakes that might occur/occurred during your presentation and the mistakes of the people that you watch, and yes of course, earn some big fat extra credit as reward.

ESL503 Conference Program
A listing of presentation schedule, students, and departments

Extra Credit Sheet
Please bring it to me next Monday as proof of attendance and participation in the ESL 503 Mock Conference.

Advertisement for ESL 502/503: PDF
What is ESL 503? Why should you take it? Video






Outline of this lesson:

Discuss and evaluate the use of gestures, volume, and stage movement in the extremes of too much and too little of each feature 

Recognize and practice typical spoken transitions between each slide to introduce, close, and connect each main point 

A. 3, 2, 1...action! Delivery style acting 


Please click your number below. Don't look at other numbers.

Your task: act it out to your group while answering the question in 30 seconds: What is your favorite restaurant in Champaign-Urbana?

The rest of the group: share your opinions to your group why you think the delivery is problematic.

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B. TED talk videos


1. What do you like about her delivery? What do you learn from her use of gestures, volume, stage movement, eye contact, and transitional language?

Daphne Koller TED talk (0:00~6:30)

transcript of this video

2. What do you like about his visual aids? What do you learn from his slide headings, slide contents, use of charts/graphs, and design?

Dan Gilbert TED talk (0:00~4:10)



C. Homework 


1. Complete your visual aid for your presentation, and submit it to compass2g on your presentation day (before class). Make sure it is the FINAL version, and it will be graded.

2. Practice, practice and practice. Make sure your presentation is no more than 7 minutes.

3. Add the topic of your presentation here before your presentation day.


                                          GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR PRESENTATION!

4.2.2 Visual aids (design)

An article: how to cite images in PowerPoint
but in general: copy and paste the link where you found the image, and shrink its size into a much smaller font, and put that text box at the bottom of the slide with that image.


Outline of this lesson:

Understand three different presentation tools: PowerPoint, Prezi, and Emaze

Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of these three presentation tools

Analyze slide design and effective usage of slide tools such as animation, templates, and graphics.

Create your own visual aid using one of these tools and your knowledge of effective visual aid design.

Evaluate visual aids for organization, animation, graphics, and general font and color schemes.

A. Review: PowerPoint
Dos and Don'ts
(answer)

B. PowerPoint
Using PowerPoint


C. Prezi
Why use Prezi presentation?


D. Emaze
How to use Emaze presentation?


Fun Survey


E. Homework
1. Decide on your presentation topic, and put your topic, brief description, source information on this table: presentation title

2. Sign up your presentation date: here

3. Work on your visual aid slides: Ppt/ Prezi/ Emaze

4.2.1 Visual aids (content)

Outline of this lesson:

• Analyze and evaluate slide contents for needed/ irrelevant content
• Develop strategies to minimize slide content, but maximize information for the audience
• Create slides headings that are brief but effective in communicating the overall takeaway point of the slide
• Avoiding plagiarism: understand how citations can be integrated into a presentation 

A. Quick review of the previous lesson

Scrambling activity
(answer)

B. Discussion

• Why are PowerPoint used? What are the benefits/ drawbacks?
• What is the hardest part of creating a Powerpoint for you? Why?
• Do you consider PowerPoint to be a productive tool?

C. Features of a great powerpoint

1. Discussions

• What are some possible negative effects of a bad PowerPoint?
• How can a good PowerPoint improve your presentation?
• What are some of the characteristics that you would consider to be good in a presentation?
• What characters do you consider bad for a presentation?

2. Video
life after death by powerpoint



3. Evaluation activity
All about the giraffe
Disability services

Evaluation table

ppt for this lesson

D. Homework

1. Please fill out the table below about the basic information of your presentation topic, and get approval from your instructor
Table of presentation topics

2. Once your topic is approved, please keep working on your ppt outline, content for each slides, etc.

4.1 Presentation Organization and Structure

Outline of this lesson:

Outline and organize a presentation in a similar way that they would a paper 

Learn about the content and movement through an introduction, body, and conclusion of a presentation and see the parallels between academic presentations and academic writing 

Develop an effective introduction, thesis statement, and conclusion

ppt of this lesson

A. Discussion:

1. What do we know about culture and writing? What are typical features of American academic writing? 
2. How might this carry over to presentations? What features might you expect in an American academic presentation? 
3. How is the audience of a paper different than an audience of a presentation? What might you do to adapt to a presentation audience? 

B. Outlining a presentation 

Handout

(sample answer key)


C. Presentation workshop

4.0 Oral Presentation Overview

Student Outcomes:

As a result of this unit and assignment, students will be able to:

• Clearly organize their ideas into a presentation in appropriate academic style 
• Deliver their ideas in an effective and interesting manner 
• Understand and apply the use of a visual aid as support so that it adds and does not detract from the presenter’s message 

Assignment Description:
Students will present on a text related to their discipline. The text can be: 1) a paper written by the student, i.e. an essay or research paper from another course, a research proposal, published work, etc., or 2) a paper selected by the student from a text in their field, i.e. a journal article, a chapter from a book, etc. This type of topic is beneficial to students because the majority of conference presentations are based on papers and because it will demonstrate to students the parallels between American style academic writing and American style academic presentations.

Students will be required to present for 5-7 minutes on their topic with the support of a visual aid, such as PowerPoint, which will specifically be addressed in this unit. Skills from all units will be incorporated in the assessment of this assignment, including outlining, summarizing, avoiding plagiarism, and presenting.


Workshop theme: One of the important themes of this unit to maintain is its workshop-style. Workshop time should be allocated for each module so that students have the opportunity to immediately implement what you have taught and get feedback from you and their peers during class.


Homework tip: One problem that you may encounter as a result of the workshop style of this unit is that if students don't do the homework, they will not be able to participate appropriately during the workshop. If you anticipate this problem, one thing you can do is reassign 5% of the total 15% allotted for this major assignment within the final grade distribution as a homework grade for preparing for each class period. Then check the homework by walking around and looking at the start of each class.



Click to view the: Assignment Prompt & Grading Rubric



Sample Assignments:
Student Sample #1

Student Sample #2

Click the link above to see student samples of this assignment.

Sample Presentation Topics

About Individual Conference (11/09 Monday)

The Objective of Individual Conferences:

The individual conferences allow the opportunity for additional communication and support between the instructor and each individual student. Instructors should use this meeting to review where students are in their writing process and where they need to be, and to create action goals for their students.

These conferences should focus on students' performance on the final writing assignment for the course, which is students' final demonstration of understanding of the course skills.

Accomplish: During the conference, instructors should elicit any questions that the student has on their draft for the final major assignment, provide feedback and clear goals for the student to improve on and work toward for the final draft, and discuss the student's current grade in the course.

There will be two individual conferences for each student during this semester. Each one will last for about 10-15 minutes. One will be at the end of the Unit 1 (in September), and the other will be at the end of Unit 3 (in November).

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: There will be no regular class on the individual conference day, but you have to sign up for an appointment with your instructor and show up on time in order to check your attendance on that day. Missing your appointment is the equivalent of an absence. PLEASE DO NOT BE LATE!

When and where:

Please sign up here for your individual conference. 

What to do before your individual conference:

What to do before your appointment: Before coming to your appointment with your instructor, please review the feedback from your instructor for at least once (it will be available one day prior to your appointment, which means by this Sunday). Prepare any question you have, and please show up on time. That would be most effective and efficient for a successful appointment with your instructor.