2.5

Getting Started

By the end of Workshop 4, you will be required to attend either a live-streamed, classical concert virtually OR visit a major metropolitan art museum's collection virtually through a "virtual tour." As your final project for this course, you’ll deliver an oral presentation built around a check-list. This learning activity will help you take your next steps in planning for the oral presentation of your virtual arts encounter. All outcomes below are aligned to our General Education outcome for oral communication: “Students can communicate orally through well-prepared, purposeful presentations and interactions.”

Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:

· Identify supporting materials referencing a presentation topic related to fine arts appreciation.

· Organize supporting materials for a presentation topic related to fine arts appreciation.

· Describe references and supporting materials needed to appreciate virtual musical performance selections or artworks from "virtual tour" museum exhibitions for analysis, interpretation and aesthetic response.

Resources

· Presentation Template PPTX File: Checklist Aligned Virtual Concert Presentation PPTX Template

· Presentation Template PPTX File: Checklist Aligned Virtual Museum Presentation PPTX Template

Background Information

In our 2.1 learning activity, you learned about a mode of aesthetic scanning called functionalism. Now, in this activity, you’ll be asked to do functionalistic research on your virtual arts encounter event, plus your previously chosen musical selection and composer OR previously chosen artwork and artist. In doing so, you’ll be completing the first two portions of your pre-formatted PowerPoint presentation template.

This learning activity is designed to help you work ahead and receive feedback from your instructor on the alignment of your research content to the presentation checklist.  Note: Your instructor will give you in-advance feedback on your work for sections I and II with references only if you submit in the Assignments tool.

Your pre-formatted PowerPoint slides include a content font of no less than 28 pt in size.  Do not auto-reduce content below this size.  Make more slides for each content area as needed.

Observe the following format guidelines as you fill in content and add images.

1. Do not change the font style.  Arial, a sanserif font, is considered a more effective presentation font than script or serif-based fonts.

2. Do not change the slide captions.  Keep slides in the original template order.  Additional slides may be added for each captioned slide as needed.

3. Use phrases, not sentences and paragraphs, for slide content.  Place sentences or paragraph quotes of interest in the Notes pane.

4. To earn full points, you must include graphic images in the slide sections as indicated in the template.

5. Graphic images must be clear and not distorted or pixelated.  See the procedure for harvesting digital images in the Resources sections.

6. Create APA format in-text citations for content and images on each slide.  You may place this either in slide content or in the Notes pane.

7. An APA References slide must be included as the final slide.  Note: the second line indentation is not required for each reference.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

2. Download the pre-formatted PowerPoint presentation template corresponding to your virtual arts encounter.  Choose from the files listed under Resources. (ATTACHED)

3. In your PowerPoint template, complete sections I. General Description, II. Background Information and the final APA References slide.

4. Regarding your "Artwork for Analysis" slide 6 OR "(Musical) Selection for Analysis" slide 6, please observe the following:

a. Reminder: Presentations cannot be made on the same artist.  First to submit an artwork by an artist in 2.1 (slide 6) reserves that artist for their presentation.

b. Reminder: Presentations cannot be made on the same composer.  First to submit a selection by a composer in 2.1 (slide 6) reserves that composer for their presentation. (BEETHOVEN)

c. You are analyzing  just one  artwork/selection, the one you indicate in slide 6.  Do not try to analyze multiple works by the same artist/composer in your presentation.

5. Be to include APA in-text citations for content and images in every slide.  You may place in-text citations either in the slide itself or in the Notes pane.