Event Coordination Presentation

SPT 492 Module Five Assignment Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In a professional career, you may be called upon to conduct research and deliver findings in professional settings. A presentation is a tool used to assist in delivering information or to make a case for or against something. No matter how extensive the research or accurate the conclusions, a weak presentation can undermine a concept or argument. When creating presentations, you develop skills in researching an issue, synthesizing the information, organizing data logically, and presenting findings in an effective manner.

Prompt: In this assignment, you will develop a presentation that describes a situation where you played a primary role. This can be as small as planning a meeting or as large as an event you may have helped to coordinate.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Briefly describe the situation where you played a primary role and the purpose of the situation.  Describe the role you played in the situation.  Briefly describe where, when, and how the situation took place.  Describe the situation’s audience. Characterize who attended and what encouraged them to attend.  Describe the overall result of the situation. In other words, how did it go?

Principles of an Effective Presentation:  You may utilize a product such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Prezi, or Google Presentation to create your presentation.  There are various template designs that you can find in the presentation tools or on the web for your presentation. However, consider your project from

the perspective of your audience prior to selecting a specific style. Busy backgrounds, large blocks of text, all uppercase fonts, elaborate font styles, grammatical errors, and misspellings distract from your message. Be consistent with the style of text, bullets, and subpoints in order to support a powerful presentation that allows your content to be the focus.

 Do not place large blocks of text on the slides; your presentation is not a means of presenting a short paper. Each slide should only highlight your key point(s), not detail them. In an actual presentation, you should not read directly from your slides, but rather, use them as prompts.

 Any details or narration you would use in delivering your presentation to a group should be listed in the “Notes” section of the slide.  Use clip art, AutoShapes, pictures, charts, tables, and diagrams to enhance but not overwhelm your content.  Be mindful of the intended audience and seek to assess the presentation’s effectiveness by gauging audience comprehension (when possible).

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your presentation should be 5 to 8 slides in length. Use a PowerPoint-style development program and include accompanying speaker notes. If you use an online tool such as Prezi, submit the link to your presentation. Note that Prezi has no Speaker Notes section, so if you use it, you must submit a separate document containing speaker notes. Narrated voiceover is an optional enhancement.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value Situation Briefly describes the situation and its

purpose with the essential details Briefly describes the situation and the purpose of the situation, but lacks description appropriate details

Does not describe the situation and its purpose

18.45

Role Adequately describes the role played in the situation

Describes the role played in the situation, but description is cursory or illogical

Does not describe the role played in the situation

18.45

Where, When, How Briefly describes where, when, and how the situation took place

Briefly describes where, when, and how the situation took place, but description is illogical or inconsistent

Does not describe where, when, and how the situation took place

18.45

Audience Describes the audience, including who attended and what encouraged them to attend

Describes the audience, but description is cursory or does not include who attended and what encouraged them to attend

Does not describe the audience 18.45

Result Describes the overall result of the situation

Describes the overall result of the situation, but description is cursory or illogical

Does not describe the overall result of the situation

18.45

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of main ideas

7.75

Total 100%