Talk
DRAFT: January 23, 2007
DUE DATE: See Yahoo Calendar of aescomp07 Group
- Team composition:
- This is a team project, with a team being pre-determined
randomly and specified on the news group
calendar. Each team has two students in it so look at
the calendar to see your talk date. Depending on the updated
class roll throughout the semester, a very small number of
groups may contain 3 people.
- Since there are only 2 people in the team for the talk,
find your team member (we'll talk some time during one of the
classes to announce students to assist in this process), and
decide how you will break down responsibilities.
- You can choose to both present, or one can do research
with the other presenting--it is up to you.
- Talk purpose:
To cover a chapter
(except for Chapter 1) from the book Aesthetic Computing.
Please choose the chapter that you and your teammate would
like to present as early as possible and email
either of the two TAs ASAP. Please check the calendar first before
emailing your chapter selection. First come, first serve -- as
chapters are selected, your choices become fewer.
- Talk contents:
- Use powerpoint or a program such as Flash to deliver your
talk to students.
- Begin with a title slide containing the
chapter title, authors, and your names.
- Describe what the author(s) are trying to convey
- Include your own understanding of their topic and points
- Close the talk with a critique of the chapter and a list
of external references for further inquiry.
- Slide content:
- Prepare a talk to last 40 minutes in length, and use a formal
presentation technique based on a slide-making tool.
A good guide is 2 to 3 minutes per slide.
- 1st Slide: Introductory slide with the talk title, and names of
people in your group
- 2nd Slide with a brief outline of the remainder of your talk -- what
you will talk about, using one bullet per section
- Cover what the topic is about - explain what
the chapter discusses within the broader context of the topic.
This is the main part of your talk -- introducing the audience
to the topic as presented by the chapter author(s) and
by the references cited. This part is the bulk of your
talk.
- Criticism and Analysis: state what your group personally agrees with
or disagrees with in the paper. Are there group members who disagree
with each other? That is fine - list all the issues and discuss them.
- Conclusions slide - the last slide of the talk that summarizes
what you presented/learned.
- Have one or two slides with web links to extra information about the
topic, from the research done on it.
- Speaking Guidelines:
- Be professional in your presentation - as if you are
speaking at a workshop or conference. Start on time and have
a set of slides that are well-designed.
- Don't talk to the slides or the ceiling - talk to the audience, and use
the slides only for reference as you go over each slide
section.
- Don't speak too quickly. Articulate your sentences and sound
as if you are trying to convince the audience of the points you
are making (i.e., rhetoric).
- Try to stick to the 40 minute average for the talk.
- Grading: There will be grading for the speakers and
the audience. A talk that is well-delivered will receive
an A and one that seems to have been put together at the last minute,
or with poor organization, will receive a B or C.
A student in the audience
will get a check-mark demerit if they miss class during another
student's talk. Each class missed will be 0.5% taken off from
the total class grade. Attendance will be checked on every day
where a student team is talking. If you have a valid excuse for
not being in class, send an email to one of the two TAs documenting
the reason for the absence.