The Savannah College of Art and Design



IDSE101

Assignment 2 – Research and Research Presentation

In your group, conduct your research and produce a presentation that summarizes your research intent, process, and findings.

1. Conduct your research, following the plan you created.

• As you conduct research, you may learn that you need to change your plan. That’s fine.

2. Create a full transcription of each of your contextual inquiries.

• Transcription takes about 6-8 times as long as the actual research takes; plan accordingly.

3. Build a research presentation that clearly communicates the research process. Don’t assume that the audience understands anything about you, the assignment, the class, or anything else. Include these topics:

• Who are you?

• What topic did you research? Why did you research that?

• What methodology did you use? Why? How does it work?

• Who were your participants? Why did you select them? How should we think of their lives and experiences – how can you humanize them and their unique situations, so an audience can see the world from their eyes?

• What did you learn, about the people, the topic, and the research process itself?

• Use only the participant’s first name, and don’t include their faces in the presentation (either crop, blur, or block them out). Obscure identifiable information, like their job title at a company.

Show pictures and video to make a point, and include direct quotes from real people that you found particularly interesting. Your research presentation should be less than twenty minutes long.

Due

This assignment is due on Monday, 9/15. Please turn in digital copies of your transcripts, and prepare a digital presentation to be delivered in class. Post a copy of the presentation to the blog. When you post material to the blog, make sure you include a description of what it is and why it’s important – simply posting the document won’t make much sense. Be sure that you have obscured identifiable information about your participants, before you post your work on the blog; don’t post your full transcripts to the blog, because they can probably be used to identify your participants.

Grading Criteria

|Your |Total |Description |

|points |Points | |

| | | |

|Presentation |

| |5 |Describes the unique methodology used, and educates the audience about it |

| |5 |Defines words, processes, methods in a way that is understandable |

| |5 |Communicates focus, intent, and research goals |

| |15 |Uses research evidence to clearly communicate findings |

| |15 |Includes visual evidence of people, places, and things |

| |20 |Includes quotes from people to highlight key findings |

| |5 |Command of room, confidence, presentation-demeanor |

| |5 |Clear use of language, no spelling errors, etc |

| |5 |Visually simple and cohesive presentation |

| |10 |Document is posted to the blog, and the post makes sense and stands along |

| | | |

|Transcriptions |

| |10 |Includes at least 5 full transcriptions |

| | | |

|Xx |100 | |

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