Oral presentation assessment - running order until the December break

Hello all,

I am looking forward to working with you all again tomorrow (Friday 7th October).

What follows is a note of how the sessions will go until the December break.

Remember, we have four assessments to do, so getting two done by the turn of the year will be great and then we can look at the other two in January. We are right on track.

Friday 7th October - we will recap on oral presentation delivery from two weeks ago, look at PowerPoint use, and do a wee group exercise on choosing a vocationally relevant topic. I have a list of possible topics too and this should give everybody a great idea what they want to present on. As long as it is on a topic related to your Programme, it will be fine. I will show you the assessment brief too. 5 minutes minimum, 8 minutes maximum.

Friday 14th October - look at some example presentations (to show you how I would like them structured), finalise your research topic and allocate assessment slots, work on presentations in class.

Friday 21st October - holiday

Friday 28th October - work on presentations in class with me helping as necessary.

Fridays 4th and 11th November - presentation assessment. These will be done in four sessions. The assessment is an individual one, but you will only present in front of a small group. 

Friday 18th November - reflect on the presentation assessments and look at report writing skills. The topic of this assessment (650-1000 words) is likely to be on the same topic as your presentation. Any presentations not already passed at this stage assessed in the second half of the class.

Fridays 25/11, 2/12, 9/12, 16/12 - work on reports in class.

Deadline for the report is Friday 16th December 2022 via Moodle. I will look at drafts before that though. 

23/12 - holiday.

Hope that helps.

Mark