COMP 105 Presentation Guidelines

• Choose a topic by Monday of 8th Week. (Some Topic Possibilities)

• Aim for the presentation to be around 4 minutes per presenter. So, an individual presentation should be about 4 minutes, a two-person presentation should be about 8-9 minutes, and a three-person presentation might be about 12 minutes. Slightly shorter or slightly longer is okay.

• Do background research on your topic; compose a presentation (Powerpoint, Prezi, HTML, etc).

• Your presentation may include information, pictures, possibly even short videos from other sources, but respect copyright and intellectual integrity.

• Cite your sources! (You may use MLA style, APA style, ACM style, or another style of your own devising, so long as you include all the appropriate information.)

• PRACTICE! There is no other way to make sure that you have the timing right.

• Once you have practiced and have a presentation of approximately the right length, record it. You can use any tool that you want for this (e.g., QuickTime, Camtasia, Screencast-O-Matic, Teams, or Stream). Two tools connected to the Microsoft Office/Teams suite are already available to you as a member of the K community. You can use Stream if you are creating an individual presentation. (Video created by Dr. Barth in Mathematics about using Stream (5 min), IS page with info about using Stream)

  If you are working in a group, you could create a meeting in Teams and record that. (You can also create a Meeting with yourself as the only participant.) Just start the meeting in your group's channel. You can start recording from the menu associated with the "..." (More Actions) icon. One person can share their screen (right away or after an introduction) to show your slides. When you're done, stop sharing your screen, stop recording, and leave the meeting. Finally, download the recording to your computer, then upload it to Stream (see next bullet).

  If you want to edit your presentation (e.g., in QuickTime or Screencast-O-Matic), you may do that but it is absolutely not required! (And is generally very time-consuming.) In fact, using Stream/Teams, the only editing available to you is to trim the beginning and end of the recording.

• Upload your recording to Streams (part of the Microsoft Office/Teams suite). Once you have uploaded it, set the permission so that everyone in this class can view it. (Here's a video on uploading and setting permissions.) You can make it available to everyone in our class by starting to type "CS 105" in the "Search for People" box, hit return, and then choose "CS 105 Intro to Computer Science." Once you have uploaded your recording, click on the Share icon to get the (very long) URL. Copy that and then submit the URL to Kit. If you worked as part of a group, one person should submit the URL and then extend "collaboration invitations" to the other group members -- the other group members can then go into the submission in Kit and accept the invitation.

Grading Criteria (10 pts)

3 pts     Structure

• Overall structure/organization (& be explicit if appropriate)
• Flow/transitions
• Presentation length

4 pts     Content

• Appropriate breadth/depth
• Appropriate CS/technology content
• Accurate
• Appropriate attribution of your sources

3 pts     Presentation

• Speed
• Eye contact / natural (not just reading)
• Appropriate content on slides (including text, pictures, video)
• Slides are clear and readable