Final Presentation
Presentations are up to fifteen minutes and open class dialogue is at least five minutes. These may be woven together for a total of twenty minutes. Ractice! Get an idea of your timing and pace before your final presentation.
- Determine the best way for the class to view/interact/experience your project.
- Be prepared, set up, organized and ready to go when it is your time. You may use the time during the previous presentation to get ready.
- Develop open-ended questions that engage the class in the big ideas and issues you are addressing in your project. Facilitate a dialogue.
- Organize the experience for the class. Decide what groupings, movements and structures need to be employed to get maximum engagement.
- Be in charge. This is your project and your time to reveal the great work you’ve done. This does not mean you have to be ‘front-and-center’ to achieve this.
- Make the presentation an experience for the class. Perhaps the end result is more open-ended questions generated by the class.
- Focus on these three areas:
1.) The process of doing your project. Your project has a story, frustrations, successes and new understandings. Relate how those emerged.
2.) Your project as a work of new media art. Situate your project within the ideas, concepts, artists and processes encountered during the course.
3.) Relate how you place your new understandings within the role of future teacher. Consider and present ideas and questions about the role of new media in your future practice as an educator as they relate to your project.
