Final Research Analysis and Presentation

For this assignment, you will submit a final draft of your earlier assignment answering questions about your Class Meeting group's research study.

In addition to this final draft, you are also required to produce a presentation of your analysis to the class.

Essentially a presentation is a different way to present data in support of an argument. The essential pattern for all the research study presentations is the same:

· State the title of the study with a full, correct, and legible APA citation for the assigned research study on the first slide in large type.

· Summarize the purpose and hypothesis of the study,

· What were the major findings of the study?

· How did the author(s) test their hypotheses?

· Are the results likely to be reliable and accurate?

· How would Kling see this study as fitting into (or, possibly, not fitting into) his argument for why the research in the field of Social Informatics? How is this research connected to Kling's argument?

Although you should feel free to discuss your work with other members of the group, each person is responsible for posting a video presenting their answers to these questions in which they speak and their language is their own. The discussion thread for posting these videos is available here.

For an example of a previous student's video presentation, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwwu_DB-rww

Links to an external site.

After the videos are posted on or before Wednesday, March 8th, individually, each student is required to watch at least four other assigned students' videos and post review and questions for each presentation. Assignments and a rubric will be provided and reviewed in the class meeting. Feedback is due before 11:59 pm, Friday March 10th.

A few tips for creating your presentation:

· These presentations will be done online using videos. Ultimately, it doesn't matter which software tool you opt to use to create this video, so long as the material is clear and the focus remains on the content, not on the film-making. A screen capture tool such as Kaltura or Screencast-o-matic are both OK options, but I would use any tool that can output to .mp4.

· You will need to upload your video work to a streaming service (YouTube or Vimeo works well) and embed your finished video in a posting to the discussion in Canvas. The revised Analysis document is submitted for this assignment.

· I'm not going to impose a specific time limit for these presentations since we're working online instead of in a class meeting. I would recommend that 6-8 minutes is a good time to aim for. Running very short or very long is a strong indication that you either haven't done a good job analyzing the study or you haven't decided what the best materials to present are.

· You shouldn't need to cite any sources for either the analysis essay or the video except the assigned research study itself. If you do choose to cite other work in the video, please use APA format on the slides that contain specific data points or quotes. (this can be in smaller type than the rest of the body text)

· Glitz isn't exactly the enemy of sound reasoning and fact in presentations, but it's not your friend either. Keep your presentation simple and consistent and be prepared to cut anything that doesn't move your points forward in a clear fashion.

Grading for this assignment is 50% on the revised analysis document, 30% the presentation (your interpretation of the article you were assigned as well as the presentation design including citations, spelling, grammar and APA citations on the slides), and 20% your completion of the feedback for other students' work. In particular I am looking for you to respond to my requests for clarification from the earlier assignment analyzing the study which are listed in the Speedgrader feedback.

As always, please be sure to email me with questions and follow up for this assignment!